Since when can we rely on the fashion industry to show any sensitivity about anything? What's amusing, and simultaneously dismaying, is the air-brained venality of it all, the pouting snobbery, the "defiant" model with a hip jutted sideways, her thumbs in her belt loops.... The fashion industry plays a sleight-of-hand brilliantly: creating the illusion of trend-making while in fact just recycling the same old things, introducing them to a new generation of consumers. The world of fashion is not the world of ideas of any consequence in this troubled world, but simply an on-going party (with nifty favors) for those able and eager to be part of it. Shocking the boobosie is what it does, and this cover is a perfectly crass and shameless example. But the funny thing is, it shouldn't be shocking: it's fine. Why can't a muscled black athlete cavort in front of a camera with a sleek white female? It's the magazine that's stuck in racism, first and last.

ugh! anna wintour is horrible fashion editor compared to her international counterparts. she appears to be caught up in her celebrity which the media perpetuates. vogue today is a disgrace compared to what it used to be. i feel it's skating by on it's reputation. i'm not surprised at the undertone of this cover, and feel the same. why couldn't they match a muscled black athlete with a black model, or yet... another black athlete? was naomi campbell not available? her body is far more shapely and healthy looking over gisele. the reality is vogue is run by old fashion types. till they get new blood in the decision-making, we'll always see this kind of cover. btw, if you check the fashion spread inside... totally lackluster. why bother with the models? the athletes are the only amazing bodies here.