The "blackface" issue has cropped up again. Within days of each other I saw Iman Bowie and Ebony Magazine post examples on Instagram:
The photos are from May's Dutch Vogue; In a tribute spread to Marc Jacobs called "Heritage Heroes”, models are dressed up in the style of Grace Jones and Josephine Baker.
The fashion industry should be trying to improve its standards, not go backwards - in any aspect.
In some spreads, girls are made up in all sorts of colours, and that can be beautiful, creative art but in instances as the Dutch Vogue, a black model could simply have been hired and it would have been a beautiful tribute without controversy.
Maybe it was done just for publicity, but it's an unnecessary debate, when "blackface" is a reference to times when white people performed minstrel shows.
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