Vogue and editor Anna Wintour are taking heat for the way Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was photographed for the cover of the magazine’s February issue.
Here’s why people were outraged:
The Photo Choice
The photo, where Harris appears casually open, wearing Chuck Taylors, almost looks like it was a test shot, rather than professionally styled.
Some fashion magazine news….
1. The February Vogue cover featuring VP-elect Kamala Harris has been widely criticized on social media this evening
But according to a source familiar with the publication plans, this is not the cover that the Vice President-elect's team expected pic.twitter.com/lBC9DnfYNC
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 10, 2021
Not the Cover They Agreed On
Harris’s team and Vogue mutually agreed upon a photo that was not the one the magazine chose to feature.
2. In the cover that they expected, Vice President-elect Harris was wearing a powder blue suit. That was the cover that the Vice President-elect’s team and the Vogue team, including Anna Wintour, mutually agreed upon…which is standard for fashion magazines.
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 10, 2021
The Original Photo
The agreed upon snap is Harris standing in a power pose, wearing a powder blue suit below.
4. Here is the Vogue cover Kamala Harris’ team thought would be released.
I’m told this cover on the left will be the digital cover, but the much maligned cover on the right has already gone to print and will be the cover available for sale and sent to subscribers. pic.twitter.com/5eWjPMTbdP
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 10, 2021
Criticism
One user accused Vogue of jumbling the cover.
Vogue knows Kamala Harris loves her sorority, suits, comfortable pants and chuck taylors. So they just jumbled it all together for the cover. Except they couldn't decide whether she is going to a luxe French salon, the Senate floor, or taking a jog. pic.twitter.com/FDNBbcw8tR
— E. Vaughan (@HypeVaughan) January 10, 2021
Washed Out
Then went on to accuse the magazine of washing out Harris’s skin tone.
Kamala Harris is about as light skinned as women of color come and Vogue still fvcked up her lighting. WTF is this washed out mess of a cover? pic.twitter.com/5O2q0axA0G
— E. Vaughan (@HypeVaughan) January 10, 2021
Lazy Photography
Another accused Vogue of using a backdrop that is “lazy and in a color meant to wash out Kamala Harris’s beautiful skin tone.” Then posted other Harris magazine covers as reference.
So my father, grandfather and great-grandfather were photographers. I grew up in my grandfather's dark room. The Vogue cover is horribly lit, the backdrop lazy and in a color meant to wash out Kamala Harris's beautiful skin tone. The VP-elect is a gorgeous woman: TIME and ELLE pic.twitter.com/c3ync0a3Qy
— Victoria Brownworth #NoUnityWithoutAccountability (@VABVOX) January 10, 2021
Wintour Out
One user called for ousting Wintour from her long-held position as Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.
https://twitter.com/PTA_Daddy/status/1348103228152557569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1348103228152557569%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2Fmedia%2FGNZdyfXQvv03V3Gc48NldAm1NYa8tGHx
Pattern
Another said: “Anyone shocked by the poor quality of Kamala’s Vogue cover hasn’t paid attention to Anna Wintour’s bull***t w/people of color. It spans decades.”
Anyone shocked by the poor quality of Kamala's Vogue cover hasn't paid attention to Anna Wintour's bullshit w/people of color. It spans decades. Team Kamala should've known better. Anyway, enjoy this pic that effortlessly shows her beauty w/o stripping her of her power(suit)?. pic.twitter.com/S6RK9lpmIj
— Trish (@StilettoRoyalty) January 10, 2021
Wintour’s Rebuttal
“Obviously we have heard and understood the reaction to the print cover and I just want to reiterate that it was absolutely not our intention to, in any way, diminish the importance of the vice president-elect’s incredible victory,” Wintour said in a statement. “We want nothing but to celebrate Vice President-elect Harris’ amazing victory and the important moment this is in America’s history, and particularly for women of color all over the world.”
The most powerful woman in America, who is also the most photogenic, and you put up this garbage image? There is no way this was done on accident. WE. SEE. YOU. VOGUE.
— preising (@preising) January 10, 2021
Photo Choice
“There was no formal agreement about what the choice of the cover would be,” Wintour claimed. “When the two images arrived at Vogue, all of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in, which we were in the midst, as we still are, of the most appalling pandemic that is taking lives by the minute.”
So it turns out there were MULTIPLE photos shared & discussed with @KamalaHarris and the one published was not even in the pile.
Not even for the photos that might end up INISIDE the magazine.
That means Anna Wintour went out of her way to choose a photo KH had not seen.
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) January 10, 2021
wpDiscuz
I am making a good pay from home $1400-$2700/week, which is amazing, under a year back I was jobless in a horrible economy. I offer thanks toward God reliably I was regarded with these bearings and now it’s my commitment to give preemptive grace and offer it with Everyone, Here……
I makes good money too, on street corner.
Can any sane person actually see this person as president?
She will be president. Two years and a day after Joe Bite Me is in, the Democrats will declare him mentally unfit and she’s the White House for the rest of the term. They expect her to run two more times for a total of 10 years of Camel Face in the White House. They are expecting the country to be totally destroyed by then.
It won’t be nearly that long -I suspect less than six months
We all will….
Can’t make miracles kamela can’t be made to look better.
Stop the commies.
This is the next path forward, first block twitter and facebook from your internet provider, the state of Idaho internet provider blocked them both.
Tech bubble is imminent, close tweeter, FB, Instagram accounts, dump their stock if own any from your IRA, 401K check your mutual funds that have Twitter or FB included, Twitter down again, dump before they go to zero, stop buying from Amazon, buy direct from the mom’s and pop’s stores near you, don’t wait DO IT TODAY .
Vogue is racist!!!
(Hilarious)
The first of a million times KA-mala will grace the cover of some b.s. American magazine that no reads.
But since we’re talking about magazine covers, how many times did these leftist irrelevant magazines put gorgeous and beautiful Melania Trump on the covers of ANY magazine(s) in 4 years?????????
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Many may think she looks good but because I know her politics she turns my stomach.
Because she’s so COOL! NOT!
Who cares what she wears. She is utterly disgusting.
How can she be VP if she can’t even say to a photographer “I don’t want to be photographed in this outfit.”? Will she be able to stand up to N. Korea? Make tough decisions? Not everything that happens in life that you don’t like is racist.