Kendall Jenner Vogue “Afro” Shoot Sparks Backlash Mag Apologizes

Vogue Magazine Catches Backlash for Featuring Kendall Jenner in Afro

Kendall Jenner is once again in the crosshairs of controversy after Vogue featured her in a new photo shoot where she’s rockin’ an afro … and the fashion mag blinked.

 

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Fifteen years and 150 finalists later, the @CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund prize has created global stars, local heroes, a must-watch New York Fashion Week, and, most important, a true sense of community among designers of all ages and backgrounds—all with differing aesthetic and commercial aspirations—who communicate, collaborate, and essentially care for one another through the fun and not-so-fun times. Laura Vassar Brock—one of the founders of 2016 #CVFF winner Brock Collection—says, “We spoke to a few friends who had gone through it, and they all said the same thing: that the Fashion Fund is a life-changing experience. And indeed it was!” Tap the link in our bio to learn more. Photographed by @mikaeljansson, styled by @tonnegood, Vogue, November 2018

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15 years ago, the @CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund was created to make the American fashion community more caring, more creative, more conscionable. Tap the link in our bio for a look back at the prize that changed American style. Photographed by @mikaeljansson, styled by @tonnegood, Vogue, November 2018

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The supermodel appears in a new Vogue story that’s running in November where she’s wearing a variety of Brock Collection dresses … and sporting a ‘fro-style ‘do. Her hair was frizzy and teased-out (nothing like her usual style) … and some people got pissed, claiming cultural appropriation and questioning why Vogue didn’t use a black model.

People flooded the comment section of Vogue’s Instagram post showing off Kendall’s puffed-out hairstyle, and openly speculated about the connotations and intentions behind booking a white girl for the gig … with some calling the move racist and demeaning to black women.

Vogue now says Kendall’s hair was simply reflecting the “Edwardian/Gibson Girl” style they were going for with the Brock Collection. FWIW … a quick google search shows that women of that era did, in fact, have similar hairstyles.

Either way, Vogue eventually apologized, explaining it did not mean to offend anyone.