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In Converse shoes: is this Kamala Harris portrait lacking official dignity?
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Vogue
The future Vice President Kamala Harris can be seen on the front page of American Vogue - an honor that has only been given to first ladies in the political arena: Michelle Obama was on the cover three times, Hillary Clinton greeted them from the 1998 Christmas edition, and so too Melania Trump could already be seen on Vogue, even if in February 2005 her entry into the White House was not yet in sight.
But the team of the first woman to be elected vice president by the US population is apparently not happy with the front page of the February issue of Vogue: According to reports, the chosen motif is not supposed to be the one agreed upon have.
In the picture that is on the kiosks of the printed edition and will be sent to subscribers, Harris is dressed more informally and wearing Converse trainers, in which she was seen from time to time during the election campaign.
The pink and green background is a nod to the colors of your student association.
Both the Associated Press news agency and journalist Yashar Ali quote sources who were involved in the talks about the Vogue cover.
According to this, a different motif, on which Harris wears a blue blazer and looks much more state-supporting, has actually been agreed.
The office of the future vice president declined any official comment.
The Vogue editorial team said in a statement that the more informal Harris theme was chosen for the front cover because the photo captured her "authentic, approachable nature," believed to be a trademark of the Biden Harris administration .
But the first reactions were negative.
Activist Charlotte Clymer emphasized that it was not about the fact that the photo itself failed.
But it is far below the usual "Vogue" standard.
You haven't thought about it enough.
That was "disrespectful" to the future Vice President.
The Washington Post commented that the cover image was the equivalent of calling someone by their first name without having been invited.
Because Vogue boss Anna Wintour chose the more informal motif, she stole the roses that the country's first female vice president would have admitted: “Nothing on the cover says 'Wow!'.
And sometimes that's what black women want: an admiring and celebrating 'Wow!' For what they have achieved. "
Kamala Harris, whose parents come from Jamaica and India, is “as light-skinned as a
woman of color
can be,” wrote one user, “and yet› Vogue ‹screwed up her lighting.
What kind of fuzzy debacle is that from a cover picture? ”The“ Vogue ”editorial team told the New York Post that they had alleged that Harris's skin had been lightened.
Both covers will be published in the digital edition, the »Vogue« statement goes on to say, »as an answer to the seriousness of the historical moment and the role it has to play on the way into the future of our country.« That Cover, now purely digitally published, shows Harris in front of a gold background and with a US flag pin on the collar.
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Originally planned cover motif: only in the digital edition
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Both Kamala Harris cover motifs were photographed by Tyler Mitchell, who became the first black cover photographer in the long history of Vogue with his picture of Beyoncé in 2018 (read a portrait here).
Mitchell himself referred to the more state-bearing motif as "his" cover photo in a Twitter message.
Anna Wintour, the long-time editor-in-chief of US “Vogue”, apologized for hurtful or intolerant images and stories during the “Black Lives Matter” protests in the summer.
In the past too few African American editors, photographers and designers were employed.
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