dihard: Vogue’s latest. I’m a bit late to this controversey from Vogue India’s August 2008 issue, which included 16 pages of India’s peasants adorned with such items as the above Fendi bib. “For our India issue we wanted to showcase beautiful objects of fashion in an interesting and engaging context. We saw immense beauty, innocence, and freshness in the faces of the people we captured. This was a creative pursuit that we consider one of our most beautiful editorial executions. Why would people see it any other way?” - Vogue India’s Editor Almost as disturbing as the caste system that still exists. Be interesting to do more research into the growing gap between rich and poor in India as a microcosm for globalization and consumption.

dihard:

Vogue’s latest. I’m a bit late to this controversey from Vogue India’s August 2008 issue, which included 16 pages of India’s peasants adorned with such items as the above Fendi bib.

“For our India issue we wanted to showcase beautiful objects of fashion in an interesting and engaging context. We saw immense beauty, innocence, and freshness in the faces of the people we captured. This was a creative pursuit that we consider one of our most beautiful editorial executions. Why would people see it any other way?” - Vogue India’s Editor

Almost as disturbing as the caste system that still exists. Be interesting to do more research into the growing gap between rich and poor in India as a microcosm for globalization and consumption.

via dihard