Vogue India have divided the fashion world with a recent photoshoot which uses some of the world's poorest people to model luxury fashion. The magazine combined the highest fashion and the lowest standard of living to make a bold statement that has led the world to question whether this is a step too far.
The photoshoot in the October edition features, among other images, a young poverty stricken child wearing a £100 Fendi bib. Also featured is a poor looking family piled onto a moped driven by the crumpled looking mother who is sporting a Hermes Birkin handbag.
The message behind the shoot is "fashion is no longer a rich man’s privilege. Anyone can carry it off and make it look beautiful." .... I love fashion but this is totally disturbing to me, but what do we really know about the "fashion's chain" !? Even the magazines we read may have been printed using what can best be described as 'questionable' labour. So is this disturbing because of the unsavoury truth laid out in front of us !?
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I don't know if this is such a horror. At least these people are being recognized in a country that really ignores the poor. Everyone is beautiful in my opinion. I love the people of the Sudan and Kenya and think they would look great in a Vogue photoshoot. If you took average everyday Americans or Europeans and put them in this ad, what would be the difference, they couldn't afford the clothes either.
Posted by: Caligula | September 10, 2008 at 01:57 AM