Telegraph: American Vogue courts controversy with Asian model fashion shoot
A Steven Meisel shoot in the December issue of US Vogue featuring eight top Asian fashion models has created a stir in the blogosphere with conflicting opinions on whether the story should be praised as a revolutionary concept in modern publishing, or lambasted as tokenism. The pictures, styled by Grace Coddington, feature mohawked models including Ralph Lauren girl Tao Okamoto, and Gap model Du Juan, in a punk reinterpretation of a classic Cecil Beaton portrait from 1948, and are introduced with the statement: 'A new crop of models from China, Japan, and South Korea is redefining traditional concepts of beauty'...more...
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