Post by eldertree on Apr 4, 2017 9:08:59 GMT
Vogue has been accused of racism for running a photoshoot featuring model Karlie Kloss as a Japanese geisha.
Vogue is celebrating the diversity of "the modern American woman" in the March edition, featuring models of different ethnicities, skin tones and body types.
With the cover featuring Chinese model Liu Wen, social media users are questioning why an Asian model wasn't used for the Japanese inspired spread inside the magazine.
One photo features Kloss alongside a sumo wrestler and another sees the geisha-dressed model walking down the stairs of a tea house.
"Apparently nobody sent the 'yellow face is in fact racism' memo to Vogue," one user wrote on Twitter.
Another tweeted: "Hiring a Japanese model? That's too much diversity for them considering Liu Wen was the first Asian to grace the cover of Vogue US the other day."
The row comes in the wake of similar controversies involving white actresses playing Asian roles in cinema.
Hollywood has been accused of "whitewashing" in recent years after Scarlett Johansson was cast in the remake of Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell, Emma Stone was chosen to play Allison Ng in Aloha and Matt Damon was cast in the lead role of a film set in ancient China.
"Emma Stone better watch her back, Karlie is coming for her Asian American crown," on Twitter user joked.
It is not the first time Kloss has been embroiled in a race row. In 2012, the top model apologised for wearing an American Indian outfit for a Victoria's Secret catwalk show.
Vogue is celebrating the diversity of "the modern American woman" in the March edition, featuring models of different ethnicities, skin tones and body types.
With the cover featuring Chinese model Liu Wen, social media users are questioning why an Asian model wasn't used for the Japanese inspired spread inside the magazine.
One photo features Kloss alongside a sumo wrestler and another sees the geisha-dressed model walking down the stairs of a tea house.
"Apparently nobody sent the 'yellow face is in fact racism' memo to Vogue," one user wrote on Twitter.
Another tweeted: "Hiring a Japanese model? That's too much diversity for them considering Liu Wen was the first Asian to grace the cover of Vogue US the other day."
The row comes in the wake of similar controversies involving white actresses playing Asian roles in cinema.
Hollywood has been accused of "whitewashing" in recent years after Scarlett Johansson was cast in the remake of Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell, Emma Stone was chosen to play Allison Ng in Aloha and Matt Damon was cast in the lead role of a film set in ancient China.
"Emma Stone better watch her back, Karlie is coming for her Asian American crown," on Twitter user joked.
It is not the first time Kloss has been embroiled in a race row. In 2012, the top model apologised for wearing an American Indian outfit for a Victoria's Secret catwalk show.