Vogue India makes a mockery of the widening gap between rich and poor
The Indian edition of Vogue Magazine recently published a series of photos using impoverished villagers as models for expensive luxury goods. Almost 500 million people in India live on less than $1.25 per day. Still, India’s fast-growing economy is becoming a huge marketplace for luxury goods. Vogue’s campaign highlights the unsettling wealth gap in an incredibly distasteful way.
The photographs feature people in tattered clothes holding luxury items that sell for hundreds of dollars. The models are unidentified, with the captions only indicating the brands.
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September 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I’m not surprised that it’s Vogue India doing this.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
What’s equally distasteful is the flippant and unapologetic response from the editor, which I would say mirrors the attitude of many of the rich in India:
“Lighten up,” she said in a telephone interview. Vogue is about realizing the “power of fashion” she said, and the shoot was saying that “fashion is no longer a rich man’s privilege. Anyone can carry it off and make it look beautiful,” she said.
“You have to remember with fashion, you can’t take it that seriously,” Ms. Tanna said. “We weren’t trying to make a political statement or save the world,” she said.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
India and its Hindu religion, with its Karma is the perfect Global template.
The poor are poor because of past lives Karma and so the rich do not need worry about those in poverty. It also provides the rich with cover as they are rich because of their past lives Karma as well. A perfect religion to mask greed, ruthlessness, lying and stealing.
The New G20 Global World Governance is upon us with Hinduism as its religion (evolution is based on the Hindu religion expect this Science replaces Karma with the concept of genes)
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