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What: Vogue Italia’s July issue is a historical one: it addresses the issue of racial inequality in the fashion world by filling its editorial pages with models of color from Naomi Campbell to up-and-comers like Sessilee Lopez.
Why You Want This: Vogue Italia isn’t exactly available at the grocery checkout line and even if you happen to live in a major city with a great international book store, your chances of finding it is pretty slim. Plus the issue features our girl Toccara (of America’s Top Model fame), Chanel Iman and Grace Jones, who is perhaps one of the most underrated style influencers out there. I was very disappointed that virtually none of the adverts featured a model of any color, which is sad, cause the real money in the modeling world comes from adverts, beauty contracts, and commercials. Even after Oprah and Queen Latifah and designers like Marc Jacobs borrowing heavily from hip-hop and urban culture, corporations still have a hard time believing black women can sell products to a global community.
To Enter: Leave a comment below by Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 11:59pm. One lucky winner will win one copy of the magazine. Winners will be selected from the list of comments.
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I was reading about this a few days ago. I’m really excited about this magazine!
I wanna winnnnnn! =]
I love the Budget Fashionista! And I’d LOVE to have this mag!
I’d like to get my hands on a Vogue magazine. I think black women are beautiful and VERY influential to the fashion industry!
I would love to win this magazine.
To show my 12 yr old daughter, that all shades of black is beauiful.
Please enter me into the contest. I would love to have this issue!
I’d like to win a copy of this issue. :) Can’t wait for magazines and runways to acknowledge that women of all colors (still waiting for more Asian women to be featured) are beautiful.
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i’d love to win! it’d be great for a poster i’m creating for college =]
I think its great that this issue comes out and I would love to have a copy! How great would it be if it were done more that one month out of the year!
This is a really beautiful thing. I hope I win the issue!!!
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Fabulous prize TBF!. Thanks!
I hope the U.S. Vogue does a similar issue!!!
What a FABULOUS issue!!
That’s really great!
I would love to win this! I think it is a very important issue, and sad that we NEED these issues in 2008!
I’m really excited about this Vogue Italia issue coming out, and will no doubt buy one off of ebay or something if I can’t find one.
oh my goodness, it would be awesome to win this! i have been calling/visiting local bookstores for weeks and no one has it, even though i live in miami (if you guys have some tips please drop me a line) it would be awesome to win this issue! as soon as i heard about it i knew it was something i had to add to my magazine collection!
omg me and my best friend have been trying to find the mag everywhere
I wish to have possession of the Italia Vogue because some day I plan to have a little girl who I would love to give the issue to as a gift. Though I plan to teach her that true beauty is within, this gift would show her that beauty on the physical side takes many forms, and that once upon a time the world took notice of many beautiful women with the Italia issue.
I’ve called all my friends in major cities in hopes of finding this issue. Please please please, I NEED this! Thx
Oo, Italian Vogue! I’ve never seen a copy in person before, it’d be so amazing to win this!
Great prize, beautiful cover.
I would love to win this issue of Vogue Italia because I’m a black female who dreams of becoming a world-renowned fashion designer. Black people have don’t only buy from top fashion designers but also contribute a lot to the fashion world. This is a growing problems because black people are not being represented in something that they are and whole-heartedly want to be involved in. Hopefully, this issue will shake things up and every race can thoroughly enjoy fashion as an universal and creative art.
This would be an awesome issue to own!
I don’t think I will be able to make forward wardrobe progress without this mag! I need to have it! It would hold a perma-spot on my rattan-woven ottoman/coffee table
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