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Lebron James and Gisele Bündchen do US Vogue

Posted by Michele Obi on Friday, 14 March 20084 Comments

The latest issue of US Vogue has hit newsstands and as we suspected it’s generating quite a buzz.

For reasons unknown to us, editor, Anna Wintour opted to break Vogue’s unwritten rules for its annual shape issue and have not one but two models grace the cover, one of them being a man and a black man at that.

Shot by Annie Lebowitz, professional Basketball player strikes a pose with supermodel Gisele Bündchen, wearing Calvin Klein. Its the third time we’ve been treated to a male figure on the cover of Vogue, Richard Gere had the privilege of being the first in Nov 1992, posing alongside his then wife Cindy Crawford and George Clooney did the honours in June 2000 with none other than Gisele…again.

What do we think? Unfortunately Gisele’s pose looks uncomfortable and unnatural, otherwise it could have been a great cover.

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Michele Obi is the publisher and founder of My Fashion Life. In between editing, freelancing and spending most of her time on the internet, she also finds time to shop (too much) and obsess over shoes. She loves sushi and counts Matthew Williamson, John Galliano, Valentino and Hussein Chalayan as her favourite designers. Her biggest regret - never seeing Prince in concert!
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- 14 March 2008 at 11:07 am

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- 14 March 2008 at 11:57 am

Ondo Lady said:

There has been quite a lot of hoohah about this advert. To be honest when I first saw it I did not look twice and it was not until another blogger pointed out Lebron’s depiction of King Kong that made me look at it again. First of all Gisele is not a tiny figure, she must be at least 5ft 11ins unlike the damsel in the King Kong movies. Gisele and Lebron actually look like they are doing a merry dance together and Gisele looks like she is having a good old time. The only one who looks uncomfortable is Lebron; maybe holding Gisele and bouncing a basketball required a lot of concentration. I don’t find this image derogatory, I think it is just US Vogue trying very hard to be cutting edge. Maybe Wintour is tired of the glam but samey samey cover shoots of American Vogue and is looking across the pond at Carine Roitfeld’s French Vogue which has a much cooler image. The bottom line is that Lebron Jones is a zillionaire basketball player who had a choice, if he thought that image of him was insulting then he would have done something about it.

- 16 March 2008 at 5:39 pm

blonde said:

a jew photographer for a jew publication reinforcing the blonde/black meme for the gazillionth time. Why dont they ever use a hasidic jewish women posed with a negroe or an arab. we know why, we know who rules amerikwa.

- 26 March 2008 at 9:22 pm