Saturday, January 29, 2011

Politically (in)correct?

What is this?

Quoting the stories:
"The Dutch contingent [...] is draped like Botticelli-etherreal goddesses"

"An all American collection [...]  for all-American girls"
Gangs of New York by Mario Testino in the February issue of American Vogue is about American designers, and the models are all grouped according to shared characteristics. Red heads, platinum blondes, long haired, black, Dutch, American, Asian. They all have blurbs by the product descriptions that say it. 
Except for the ones about the black and Asian girls.
We'd all probably be happy if Vogue left out those little corny blurbs in every story because really we just want to know who made the pants and how much they cost, but since they're there...

"Models Ajak Deng, Arlenis Sosa, Chanel Iman, Anais Mali, Jourdan Dunn, and Sessilee Lopez showcase the Mulleavy's West-meets-East collection"

"Models So Young Kang, Hyoni Kang, Tao Okamoto, Fei Fei Sun, and Ming Xi wear the saturated colors, optical prints, and technical fabrics (like rubberized guipure lace) that made up their inventive collection"

Why this inconsistency? Doesn't it make it more politically incorrect to not include descriptions of ALL the girls? They could say that some of them were American and Dutch, why not black or Asian?
What do you think?

Images: Fashion Gone Rogue *the product description blurbs are not shown on the link images

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