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British Vogue February 2022 Cover, Features Nine Black Women-Celebrates Rise of African Models

Vogue Magazine features nine African models but receives a massive backlash. 

This is one of the worst Vogue covers ever': Magazine featuring nine African models is branded offensive for 'fetishising' them with lighting that hides their features and makes them 'look like mannequins'

British Vogue has revealed its February 2022 cover, featuring nine black women

Issue celebrates rise of African models and talks those 'redrawing the map' 

Edward said: 'We need to ensure these girls last. We have to invest in them'

Some fans have slammed the cover online, with some calling it 'the worst ever' 

One wrote: 'They gathered all of these beautiful women and decided not to use lighting properly? One can't even identify who is who!'

Another commented: 'This is one of the worst Vogue covers I've ever seen'

The cover of British Vogue's February issue featuring nine black models has been branded 'offensive' on social media as critics claim bad lighting and poor styling hid the women's features and made their skin blacker to cater to the 'white gaze'.

It marks the first time Vogue has featured a group of black women this size on the cover, for an issue celebrating the rise of African models, and was photographed by Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti, who has previously shot black models in the same fashion, making their skin look ultra-dark. 

Starring models Adut Akech, Amar Akway, Majesty Amare, Akon Changkou, Maty Fall, Janet Jumbo, Abény Nhial, Nyagua Ruea and Anok Yai, the cover was styled by British Vogue's Editor-In-Chief Edward Enninful OBE.

Mr Enninful was appointed editor of British Vogue in 2017, taking over from Alexandra Shulman, after the publication was criticised for a lack of diversity, and promptly assembled a woke squad of 15 women to bring diversity into editions across Europe.

However, this latest imagery has been met with furious backlash online, with dozens of fans saying the 'badly lit' image appeared to darken the models, who have a range of skin tones, to a point where they were unrecognisable and look like 'mannequins'. 

A behind-the-scenes video of the shoot featuring the models having their hair and make-up done shows the diversity of their skin tones, sugesting that it was the ligthing rather than cosmetics that made them look so different. 

One critic commented: 'British Vogue? So...they gathered all of these beautiful women and decided not to use lighting properly? One can't even identify who is who! And the wigs? Those women have very beautiful fascinating dark skins, so why DARKEN them like that?' 

A fellow critic accused the Brazilian photographer of catering for the white gaze by 'fetishising' the models and exaggerating the models' skin tones, saying: 'You can be unapologetically black without caricature.'

Culled: Daily Mall

Comments

  1. Unknown15 January 2022 at 07:59

    Na wow!

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  2. Grace15 January 2022 at 14:17

    Black is beautiful 😍😍😍 see melanin popping 🔥🔥🔥

    ReplyDelete
  3. Unknown16 January 2022 at 04:39

    The lighting is really poor. Black skin should not mean black out please😂

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