Vogueing It

My April Vogue arrived in the mail a few days ago, but I did not have a chance to read it until yesterday afternoon. I found it thoroughly enjoyable, despite not being too inspired fashion wise. I quite enjoyed the articles and loved seeing the athletes with the models, although there were a few athletes whom I felt should have been included that were not, but I'm not the Vogue editor so my opinion simply just does not count. The cover? I found it interesting, I did not particularly care for it, but beyond my particular taste I found nothing wrong.



Today, while channel surfing I stumbled across a story about the 'controversy' of next months Vogue cover. I stared blankly at the TV Screen and the image of Giselle and LeBron, the one currently under scrutiny. I still could not figure out what everyone was so upset about.

Apparently, it reminded some people of "King Kong" and it played into racial slurs. Personally, I think people are making a mountain out of nothing, not even a molehill. LeBron is happy with the way the cover turned out, and really why shouldn't he be? He looks very masculine and powerful; an image, most men would want to depict. And lucky him, he even gets to do it with the beautiful Gisele Bundchen standing right next to him. Furthermore, the story continued on that Giselle looked ready for the runway and he looked ready to meet up with a gang of serial killers. Well wouldn't you know this is Vogue and Giselle is a supermodel after all, so that makes sense. And LeBron is a basketball player so it is very fitting for him to be wearing basketball clothes. And when did a t-shirt and basketball shorts and shoes become the stereotypical serial killers clothing, anyways?