Is It Coz I Is Amnesiac?
Everyone’s favourite supermodel mouth, Naomi Campbell, has accused British Vogue of racism, claiming that the colour of her skin is the reason they’ve never given her a cover.
“I’ve never been on the cover of British Vogue and I’ve asked a million times and they’ve always refused me,” Campbell said.“They’ll put the same white model for half the year – I swear, like six times – but wouldn’t put me on once in my own country. But I still want my British Vogue cover!”
This is the sort of injustice we’d usually be totally right-on and come out fighting for, but, er, well, she’s been on the cover – eight times.
Sure, Vogue – like MTV – aren’t known for being particularly progressive in their cover model choices at the best of times, but, like, Naomi, do you even look in your book?
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it’s not that Naomi has never been on the cover of Vogue – she is complaining that they never put black models on the cover anymore.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2169875,00.html
>Ms Campbell, who flew in from London for the meeting, repeated her recent claim that she could no longer get on to the cover of British Vogue. “Do I still want to be on the cover of British Vogue? Absolutely I do. It’s not because I don’t sell, because I do sell – more than many of my white counterparts.”
Compare to Kate Moss, who has been on the cover of British Vogue some 24 times!
Actually, that quote is fabricated, what Campbell REALLY said was that they had only put a black model on the cover of UK Vogue 9 times in their almost hundred year history. And eight of those nine times the model was her. Campbell may be a crack pot but she’s right, UK Vogue IS racist.