Over at Elle magazine, where the May issue sees the word nude repeated nine times on a single page, nude is the colour for spring/summer。 Editor Lorraine Candy says there is nothing wrong with this. Nude is a defined colour. Its white nude, not black nude, but its not the colour of my skin either. Im see-through white. With someone as powerful and amazing as Michelle Obama, I think its the wrong thing to get worked up about.
The problem is that the language of fashion has form in this regard. Beading, fringing and animal prints are routinely offered as evidence of a tribal trend 。 Last October, a month before Obama stepped out in her dress, model Lara Stone appeared blacked up in French Vogue. Black models, meanwhile, are few and far between on catwalks and covers. And even when fashion editors find synonyms for nude they are conventionally honey, rose, blush, ivory, words commonly used to make an English rose complexion seem aspirational. There is nothing new in all this, of course: remember American Tan tights, and their promise to bring a healthy glow to all those American legs?
For me, nude would be if I wore brown, says Dodai Stewart, deputy editor of Jezebel. I do think that it really is exclusionary not to realise that this is not nude for everyone.
But it isnt just the description of a colour that is potentially offensive here, its also the way the look is styled, the conception of the entire trend. On the cover of Mays InStyle, actor Gemma Arterton appears in a frock so close to her skin tone that it seems to seep into her chest and shoulders, the two adjacent pallors of flesh and dress somehow bleaching each other out, lightening further the overall look. On the catwalks in Paris, Milan, London and New York, these pale shades were presented almost uniformly on pale skins. Its a look thats all about white skin.
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