Okay this is absurd

OMG the issue is a month old JFC…See the whole editorial here.

Lara Stone (the girl who calls herself fat) has been painted in blackface, whiteface and finally regresses to natural tanface (?) for a Vogue Paris October editorial.
While I agree that superficially this editorial may hit a nerve for many, the subtle message of the shoot has been overlooked by sensationalists. Lara, a Caucasian model, does get painted to appear darker skinned; but there isn’t any talk of thephoto of her painted porcelain white, except for the thigh which would be usually covered by a bottom.
I look past the first few photos and take in this one - it seems much more rife with a political statement than the oh-so-obvious first few that have caused such a stir. The photo has the model in the recently popular sans pants pose, with all of her but the thigh painted crackling white; identifying that the public body parts on display are altered to fit societal expectations, but the area that is expected to be covered up is not.
This portrays two things; historically those in society’s upper crust (from Queen Elizabeth to a Geisha), and the visual acknowledgment that even Caucasians ‘paint’ themselves to appear to an ideal even they can’t uphold.
The crackling of the white paint states an inherent imperfection of this ideal; Vogue France is not stating that the model is superior for being white, but a crumbling effigy of a society that can’t sustain its own standards. The skin cracks because it’s failing to sustain itself, and the true hue begins to appear from under the mirage of one group’s image of perfection.
After the transition from the black looks to the imperfect white, Lara is eventually a natural tan - a skin shade that is neither dark nor bleached, but between both. As a progression is illustrated, Vogue France is portraying that one should be comfortable in their own skin no matter what that happens to be. The paint is not a mark of ; more like a more sophisticated lesson of societal acceptance of all.
Cheers to Carine Roitfeld and Steven Klein for taking an unorthodox artistic method with this shoot, and for challenging close minded North American audiences once more.

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Ugh I hate the fact that they are making a bigger deal out of this than it actually is. There have been worse injustices than this editorial going on, and you know, Vogue Paris is a classy publication who hires artists like Steven Klein.

Does anyone here actually find this editorial in question racist?

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