ariketalks:
This guy (whoever he is) said the bitter truth albeit in an offensive way to many. That Vogue cover is TERRIBLE. We love Adesua, but it raises concern that the image had to be altered so much and poorly so to make her look like the stereotypical "black woman". It is myopic and grossly unintelligent for anyone to think all black people are darkskinned.
Adesua looks unrecognisable in that picture, and they even mischieviously positioned her where she can easily go overlooked. If i had seen the cover elsewhere, i would never have thought that was Adesua tbh.

I am sure she knows just like everyone else that the picture has been heavily adjusted to make her look that way. Same thing for the cloth they gave her to wear. What you should know is that she had no input after the picture was taken till it came out live. The mag editors are the one to approve the edited piture not Adesua. However, saying she looks like a slave is arrogating the blame to her. He should have channelled his grievance towards Vogue.

In placements such as this, A list celebs get to see and vet the final edited picture before it goes into publication. Vogue, I am certain, wanted to blight her but the jokes on them and silly people that support useless lifestyle they're pushing.

Admin401:
You think its easy to look good standing next to those firstclass models?

Go carry your head and stand next to them and see how ugly you'll look standing next to them.

By whose judgments/standards are they first class? The world? You? They? More like a cabal of people with an agenda.

Obviously an editorial shoot.

Elizabeth Debicki looks somehow too, same as Deepika Padukone in another picture in the same magazine

Even before reading your write up, I noticed that she looked odd in the cover.

That's too bad

DookShop:


By whose judgments/standards are they first class? The world? You? They? More like a cabal of people with an agenda.

By nature. Ever heard of the golden ratio? It's all about symmetry. Beauty is not judged by skin color.

see erhh, its not like am supporting silverdam oo. but on a more serious note, the truth is bitter but must be told. watin d guy talk na true. d only fault silverdam had was the manner at which he said it, he made it look to obvious. dats all;
he should have better said
[b]"vogue cover made our super star beautiful actress (Adesewa) to look like a kind of slave girl"
for meooo....

Another publicity stunt, they just wants to be noticed at all cost.. Idiyot

punisha:
On a more serious note...
Adesua is fairer than that.
Why darken her?

That is the exact point the guy was trying to make!!!

Its something I also noticed the moment I saw the cover.

Sad some simpletons see nothing wrong with the ill motivated editing by the magazine.
Why alternate her complexion??
The Adesua I know looks nothing like that.

That ad on Vogue magazine is symbolic. Global talent. The editor tried to recreate the fact that Adesua is African, hence the toning. Traditionally Africans are darker in skin colour as a trademark of the sahara. So my blogger get that weird slave mentality off your head. We all know she is fairer than that picture but the bigger picture looked beyond that. Hopefully, someone gets my drift.

tomju:
That ad on Vogue magazine is symbolic. Global talent. The editor tried to recreate the fact that Adesua is African, hence the toning. Traditionally Africans are darker in skin colour as a trademark of the sahara. So my blogger get that weird slave mentality off your head. We all know she is fairer than that picture but the bigger picture looked beyond that. Hopefully, someone gets my drift.

Stop making excuses for these racists. If they were going for the "traditional African look", why didn't they,
▪Get an Afro wig?
▪Clad her in African textile or..
▪Simply use an actual dark skinned entertainer?
That tacky weave, emaciated makeup look and whatever selective filter made her skin look badly tanned, are NOT African.

There difference between the two pics on both magazine.

lmao.................

cosmatika:
Their business

On a 2nd thought, Adesua looks like a slave with her small boobs and grassy hair.
Don't quote me cos I'm outta here

cosmatika:
Their business

On a 2nd thought, Adesua looks like a slave with her small boobs and grassy hair.
Don't quote me cos I'm outta here

I'm gonna quote you because you said the truth.

ariketalks:
This guy (whoever he is) said the bitter truth albeit in an offensive way to many. That Vogue cover is TERRIBLE. We love Adesua, but it raises concern that the image had to be altered so much and poorly so to make her look like the stereotypical "black woman". It is myopic and grossly unintelligent for anyone to think all black people are darkskinned.
Adesua looks unrecognisable in that picture, and they even mischieviously positioned her where she can easily go overlooked. If i had seen the cover elsewhere, i would never have thought that was Adesua tbh.

Thank you so much for saying the obvious truth that some people are shying away from, she looks unrecognizable.

ariketalks:

No offense sis but this sounds like inferiority complex. Art, like music, is not "beautiful" to specific races only. Why do Nigerians require validation from foreigners before being impressed with their own work? Why must foreign things be better than local ones?
We really need to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery asap. That picture is distasteful and subtly racist, but if comments like yours keep popping up, we'll never see the end of scenarios like this one.

Unfortunately we can't emancipate ourselves from that kind of mentality. It is the same mentality that makes coffee black and chocolate skin toned men and Women of the African race apply bleaching creams on their skin.

It is the same inferiority complex that makes the average African gawk shamelessly at a white folk in their neighborhood.

It is the same mentality that makes us think fair complexioned Africans are "finer" than darker hued Africans.

Ever wondered why most beauty queens in Nigeria are fair skinned? There you have your answer.

I guess you can't erase the PTSD that is as a result of decades if not centuries of transatlantic slave trade and cotton picking. SAD!

did he gay you?

Airforce01:
Nairaland Tosin Silverdam

Confirm Gay

Admin401:


By nature. Ever heard of the golden ratio? It's all about symmetry. Beauty is not judged by skin color.

Nah! Not nature. Some people decided that only certain ladies with certain physical stature can be supermodels. To be that, you have to fit yourself into those straits. The fact that you call some people supermodel is even a misdirection. Not everyone looks like that hence they cannot be the standard for every other person. On golden ratio, there is a golden ratio that fits even curvy women too.

Bottomline, Vogue was very wrong to edit her that way.

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DookShop:


Nah! Not nature.

Can't make heads or tail from the rest of your argument, but you were asking who decides who is beautiful or not and I said nature, you said No, not nature. So what then?

People? Lmfao. Same people you are criticizing for editing Ade.

There's no better judge of beauty standard than nature

rxgodwin:
Busy body bloggers, who sought his opinion. Blacks always showing their slave mentality. A simple art featuring a negroid and a caucasian, black men wld always find a way to cry foul.

Big head

Very well said.

In any case, a black skin person, no matter how much light-skinned, will always look coloured besides truly caucasian people.

Besides, that so-called blogger needs to watch his/her written grammar - using "critic" all over the place, instead of the word, "critique." Shioor.

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Admin401:
You think its easy to look good standing next to those firstclass models?

Go carry your head and stand next to them and see how ugly you'll look standing next to them.

Lololololololololololol