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 Vogue Italia unveiled photos of model Saskia de Brow with her skin darkened, wearing tribal clothing and posing with animals.

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Vogue Italia, In the March 2014 issue, showed a Dutch model posing in "blackface"and ethnic wear.

 The high-fashion magazine unveiled photos of model Saskia de Brow with her skin darkened, wearing tribal clothing and posing with animals.

The series of photos, called "Abracadabra" was shot by photographer Steven Miesel.

"Fashion just loves to dress a white woman in costumes of a different culture to make her seem "exotic" and sell a bunch of obscenely expensive clothes," Eliabeth Licata wrote at the Gloss

"We will never understand fashion's adoration of blackface. No matter how many times designers, photographers, and magazines are called out for cultural appropriation and/or straight-up blackface editorials, they just keep doing it," she added. 


Other people are voicing their opinions on social media. 

 "Italy's race problem isn't only on the soccer field," one person tweeted.

"Not blackface. Not even darkening skin. They are using body paints to pose as warriors, as many cultures throughout history have done. Over-sensitivity," Alex Schneider commented onHuffington post

This is not the first time Vogue used blackface and other offending images to sell copies. In May 2013, Vogue Netherlands published an editorial called "Heritage Heroes," and showed model Querelle Jansen in complete black face with dark frizzy hair. Marc Jacobs designed the attire and claimed to be inspired by "tribal influences."

In response to Vogue Netherlands controversy, the veteran super model Naomi Campbell, tweeted to fashion icons such as trailblazing model Iman Abdulmajid. 

 "I'm disgusted by such ignorance @BethannHardison @EdwardEnninful @The_Real_IMAN."

Campbell in partnership with fashion activist, Bethann Hardison, have started a campaign called The Diversity Coalition. 

The campaign's primary goal is to encourage fashion agencies to use models of color for casting calls. 

In New York's Spring 2014 Fashion week, only 8 percent of models were black and 3 percent Latino in comparison to 80 percent of white models.

"The absence of people of color on the runways and photography reinforces to our young girls that they're not beautiful enough, that they're not acceptable enough," Abdulmajid said to CNN.  

The Coalition wrote an opening letter outing fashion leaders who allegedly used racist practices. The list included Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Valentino and Saint Laurent. 

"I don't want to ever hear again a young model telling me that casting directors have said to her, 'We are not seeing black models this season,' To me that's offensive, to me that's a racist remark," Iman said. 


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