The Beijing Games have come and gone so we'll have to wait until 2012 to see Michael Phelps and the like do their thing, but Style.com is determined to keep the competitive juices flowing until then. Following up the first athletic race between model and pro athlete comes the coup between IMG's Caroline Winberg and Pro BMX rider "Superfly" John Skvarla. Obviously, you know wins this bicycle race. But if you're in need of good laugh this morning, you can't leave without watching this video.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that all of the actresses-models-whatever who graced the November covers of women's magazines were, for the most, all white. To that end, it also shouldn't shock anyone that those said magazines served-up their issue to the masses with some type of election theme. What should be startling, however, is how these patriotic Nov. issues shine a glaring light on the tiny worldviews most fashion editors spend their whole time looking through.
Although we've just wrapped up an historic election, which ultimately ended up crowning the African American candidate as victor in the end, the majority of the cover girls this month stand as prototypes of what America has long and dangerously considered beautiful: white, blond, and with blue eyes. The only person who represented the diversity of the Presidential campaign was Halle Berry, who graced the cover of Esquire. As a matter of fact, the only person of color who has been getting regular face time on magazines has been President-Elect Barak Obama. Disheartening to say the least.
However, all may not be lost. As with the election, people are starting to repudiate and denounce the often than not vapid shit running up and down the pages of women's magazines, and as a result, choosing the much less filtered media outlet -- the blog -- to catch up on gossip, entertainment news, and everything elese that makes one foget that their jobs sucks if only for just a little bit. Maybe with ads buys steadily decreasing and once popular mags folding left and right, editors will become more "bold" and subsequently allow their covers to reflect America diverse population because, well, what will they have to lose?
In the meantime, more editorials of Jourdan Dunn, Chanel Iman, and Arlenis could serve as a start.
