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NY TIMES HERALDS UNVOGUE AS PIONEER IN ONLINE MAGAZINES

Where you can go for a quickie! :)
Current issue features Wendell Lissimore, Salieu Jalloh, Nelson Nieves & Benjamin Elliott
Click here to see current issue.

Congratulations to K. Tyson Perez, Editor in Chief of Unvogue Magazine

THE WHITE WASHING OF THE INDUSTRY

Apparantly racism is running rampant in the industry.....less and less ethnic models are present on the runways this season. Click here to read one recount in the NY TIMES. Even the UK Guardian was hard pressed not to pose the question.."why are all the models white?"
Here is an excerpt from the article:

At this season's fashion shows, there has barely been a black or Asian face on the catwalks. Hadley Freeman reports from Paris on the whitewashing of the catwalk

Friday October 5, 2007
The Guardian

A disturbing problem has appeared on the catwalks this season. It is one that suggests the fashion industry has not just a warped but a fully offensive mentality when it comes to judging how women should look. It is a problem that has been simmering for some time, but because talking about it might offend the designers and scare off lucrative advertising accounts, hardly anyone has spoken out - and things have only got worse. We now have a situation that could lead to serious problems not only for some models, but for the public as a whole, making millions of women feel ugly, undesirable and simply wrong. And no, this is not about weight - it's about race.

Read other articles on the topic:
Live Journal
Time.com
The Australian
metro
Jezebel

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