Kendall Jenner is on the cover of Vogue—and people are furious (uk.businessinsider.com).
All of them, or just a sizeable demographic for whom the Kardashians play an equally valid “reality” emblematic role as being waist trainer wearing bogeywomen to blame for all and sundry as they do for those more accepting and empathetic growing up in the Instagirl age rather than condescendingly looking down on it with memories of things not just pre social media era but perhaps pre-internet?
“Kendall Jenner is on the cover of the September edition of Vogue, a milestone for any model. But as with most things Kardashian or Jenner, there’s some backlash: Lots of people aren’t pleased that Vogue—the beacon of all things high fashion—decided to put Jenner on the cover of its fashion bible. People have taken to Vogue’s Facebook page to write furious comments.”
With seemingly “fashion bible” Vogue—and taste in general—being emblematic of something relating to the principle of inclusion-exclusion too. But, to be honest, it’s a rare blue moon when those gripped to comment on Facebook are “pleased” with anything and, similar to the Kardies role, that vitriolic fury, armchair critiquing and complaining is seemingly its real social raison d’etre on anything from reality TV, Brexit to HP sauce (nottinghampost.com).
But at least some are aware the clock is not ticking back to 1950, no matter what any Brexiteers told em:
“I can’t stomach the Kardashian people, but this certainly reflects the times we live in. I look forward to the whole ‘instagram model’ thing just dying.”
Indeed, it likely will, like most things—such as Polaroid cameras and then digital cameras that are just that and not a tablet or phone to boot too with insta-post Instagram access—when a new thing comes along to replace it.
“Anna [Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988] has always said that Vogue is supposed to reflect the times we live in. Hopefully this period ends quickly. To her credit though, at least she isn’t serving high priced catalogue, she’s actually giving some attitude.”
“Attitude” that is seemingly helped by “reflecting the times we live in” so that a new generation will continue to see it as relevant too and to keep it continually profitable for Vogue and Ms Wintour in an age where magazine sales beyond those celeb reality digests for sale at the checkout counter are seemingly in a terminal decline. And when “this period” ends, quickly or not, it will give the generation that grew up with the familiarity of the “Instagram model” their chance to decry things arn’t what they used to be too in the face of whatever pictorial paradigm has replaced it.
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