‘Vogue’ India Attempts To Make Poverty “Fashionable”
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From this shit:
An old woman missing her upper front teeth holds a child in rumpled clothes — who is wearing a Fendi bib (retail price, about $100).
To this shit:
A man modeled a Burberry umbrella in Vogue that costs about $200.
To this shit:
Some 456 million Indians live on less than $1.25 a day.
These wonderfully stark contrasts brought to you by Vogue India, particularly its “16-page vision of supple handbags, bejeweled clutches and status-symbol umbrellas, modeled not by runway stars or the wealthiest fraction of Indian society who can actually afford these accessories, but by average Indian people.”
Hey, after all, why buy actual food when you can spend the $200 that took you 178 days to earn snatching that very pretty Burberry umbrella? Right, Vogue?
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September 24th, 2008 at 5:49 am
The shoot was a celebration of India and not a mockery of the”poor”. Perhaps, the people in the shoot come out as ‘poor’, because that is the persistan idea of India in the west.
This is not about poor people, its celebration of their spirit, which is very evident from the shoots…the ‘luxury’ products are mere props.
A foreign model amidst these people carrying the Berkin perhaps wouldn’t have been so controversial as it seems, considering the plethora of such shoots in the past! Just forgoing a white model in the shoot is just no reason fo controversy…