Vogue Italia – Fashion forward or backward?
Vogue Italia’s May 2011 issue has a 15-page spread called “Tribute to Black Beauties” featuring the world’s top African American models.
The models featured are Jeneil Williams, Cici Ali, Ubah Hassan, Gayle McDonald, Kelly Moreira, Jae Childs, R’el Dade, Jasmine Tookas, Lily Taylor and Ariel Meredith with blonde haired, blue eyed Kristen McMenamy on the cover.
This is hot off the presses after the Vogue Italia February 2011 “The Black Allure“ issue, the July 2009 “Barbie Issue” and three years after the groundbreaking July 2008 “Black Issue” was published.
So is this another step in the right direction or just a startling admission that nothing has changed in the last three years in terms of ethnic diversity in fashion?