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When Tyra Met Naomi

Race, Fashion, and Rivalry
When Tyra Met Naomi
Article by Hawa Allan, Illustrated by Caitlin Kuhwald, appeared in issue Green; filed under: Social commentary; tagged: competition, fashion, fashion models, media, race, tv.

One of the last places I expected to hear an engaging antiracist and feminist critique of the fashion industry was on The Tyra Banks Show. But on a January 2006 episode, there was Banks, sitting couch-to-couch with supposed arch­nemesis and fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell, discussing the forces that years ago had pitted the two women against each other on the assumption that America had room for only one black top model.

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Hail Harper's

An Ode
Article by Erin Keating, appeared in issue Issue #2; filed under: Social commentary; tagged: beauty standards, body image, fashion, fashion models, Harper's, magazines.

My arm fell asleep, I got so engrossed. This issue of Harper’s Bazaar is about as big as a bible—and just as full of prophecy.

I fall in love with the models, their blackened eyes and plaster pigment, all pinched and compressed into vinyl and leather, looking hot hot hot and totally unfazed. They are the visions of me that I will never see.

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