French Magazine Continues Ugly Blackface Trend

Boo-la-la: The French magazine industry certainly isn’t learning anything from the controversy created around French Vogue last October, when the title featured model Lara Stone in blackface and subsequently saw huge backlash from people around the world whose jaws just…dropped. But hey, maybe any publicity is good publicity, considering that the French menswear mag L’Officiel Hommes just did the same exact shoot, only with male models in a fashion spread called “Keep It Goin’ Louder.” So not only is it racist, it’s unoriginal.

Look, we get there this is a cultural difference here: that French history doesn’t contain the exact same atrocities to African-Americans as uh, America does. Still, whenever you play dress-up with other people’s identity, you’re toeing a fine line between envelope-pushing and envelope-falling-to-the-floor-and-exploding. Check out the rest of the images from  below in our gallery.

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