Enemy of Vogue India [Gaganymede]

Enemy of Vogue India

12 September 2008 at 11:42
Enemy of Beauty, Politik Pop

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Image credits: Vogue India

An old woman missing her upper front teeth holds a child in rumpled clothes ? who is wearing a Fendi bib (retail price, about $100).
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The editorial spread was "not just tacky but downright distasteful" said Kanika Gahlaut, a columnist for the daily newspaper Mail Today that is based here, who denounced it as an "example of vulgarity."
There's nothing "fun or funny" about putting a poor person in a mud hut in clothing designed by Alexander McQueen, she said in a telephone interview. "There are farmer suicides here, for God's sake" she said, referring to thousands of Indian farmers who have killed themselves in the last decade because of debt.
Vogue India editor Priya Tanna's message to critics of the August shoot: "Lighten up," she said in a telephone interview. Vogue is about realizing the "power of fashion" she said, and the shoot was saying that "fashion is no longer a rich man's privilege. Anyone can carry it off and make it look beautiful," she said.
Vogue's Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India [Heather Timmons for The New York Times]