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High fashion or highly offensive?
Fashion critics are jeering at Vogue Nippon (Japan) for photographing American model Crystal Renn with her eyes taped back.
It's unclear whether the taped eyes were an attempt to give the brunette model a more unusual and stylized look or an attempt to appeal to Asian readers.
The taping was captured on a behind-the-scenes video for the shoot, which was styled by the eccentric Italian stylist and editor Anna Della Russo. Renn was dressed in head to toe Dolce & Gabbana.
"We are huge fans of both Anna Dello Russo and Crystal Renn. As such, an editorial styled by ADR and starring Renn should be something we're really into," wrote the critics behind the fashion site Stylite. "We're not."
The site pointed out that American Vogue was guilty of styling model Karlie Kloss to make her appear more Asian in a Mario Testino photo shoot in China.
Controversy has become par for the course for the international editions of Vogue – especially the Paris edition.
In recent months, Paris Vogue has caught flack for using a 10-year-old in a sexy photo spread, referring to a piece of jewelry as "slave earrings" and shooting British model Lara Stone in blackface.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashi...l#ixzz1X9Tv507S
Fashion critics are jeering at Vogue Nippon (Japan) for photographing American model Crystal Renn with her eyes taped back.
It's unclear whether the taped eyes were an attempt to give the brunette model a more unusual and stylized look or an attempt to appeal to Asian readers.
The taping was captured on a behind-the-scenes video for the shoot, which was styled by the eccentric Italian stylist and editor Anna Della Russo. Renn was dressed in head to toe Dolce & Gabbana.
"We are huge fans of both Anna Dello Russo and Crystal Renn. As such, an editorial styled by ADR and starring Renn should be something we're really into," wrote the critics behind the fashion site Stylite. "We're not."
The site pointed out that American Vogue was guilty of styling model Karlie Kloss to make her appear more Asian in a Mario Testino photo shoot in China.
Controversy has become par for the course for the international editions of Vogue – especially the Paris edition.
In recent months, Paris Vogue has caught flack for using a 10-year-old in a sexy photo spread, referring to a piece of jewelry as "slave earrings" and shooting British model Lara Stone in blackface.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashi...l#ixzz1X9Tv507S
