For the July issue they photographed all black models for the issue. It seems to be the total opposite of all other fashion magazines who refuse to use black models. All the models are black and even the topics in the magazine are to appeal to a black audience and the black female consumer that spends billions a year in an industry that doesn't even acknowledge our existence when most of the trends are taken from our culture. We are and have been some fly and fashionable individuals from the cool in the sixties ,to the dip in the step in the seventies, and the hip hop arrival of the eighties , and the Afrocentric nineties , to a culmination of all in the the years passed. This issue of Italian Vogue will be on European newsstands next Thursday and in the United States a few weeks later. The model on the cover is Liya Kebede . Naomi Campbell, Sessilee Lopez and Jourdan Dunn are on the pullout cover. They had trouble picking what model to use i.e a pull out cover. Other models...
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