Is the fashion industry obsessed with blackface? After Lara Stone’s blackface French Vogue editorial and Tyra Banks’s blackface America’s Next Top Model photo shoot, V will publish an editorial in the new issue hitting stands November 3 with Sasha Pivovarova in blackface, posing opposite Heidi Mount. Mario Sorrenti shot the spread. Seriously, why so many blackface shoots? Can’t fashion nurse a less controversial obsession? Like wearing and dressing up cats? We’d like to see some pusses in some boots, please.
Black Is The New Black? [FWD]