Saturday, January 9, 2010

This must be some kind of sad, cruel joke

//V's double bill size issue featuring Gaby and Dakota

THIS MUST BE SOME KIND OF JOKE.
I usually like V and read it quite abit but this gets on my nerves.
Where do I start with this cover? It might seem like a celebration of "One size fits all" but it is not. I'm not gonna touch on race here because that is way too sensitive.

1) Big Love has hair fanning away from her face and Little Lady has her hair framing her face.
Plus, Little Lady has BumpIt Big Hair which makes her face look even smaller.
Desired effect in comparison: Big Love's face looks bigger and Little Lady's face looks smaller.

2) Big Love is looking skywards, exposing loads of skin and flab and Little lady is looking straight into the camera with her shoulder tilted to cover her neck.Plus she is wearing a knit.
Desired effect in comparison: Big Love has more skin exposed and Little lady has only her face exposed. Big Love's face looks alot bigger.

3) Big Love's shot zooms in her face and a little of her shoulder but Little Lady's shot includes more than half of her upper arm.
Desired effect in comparison: Little Lady looks so petite and Big Love looks...well bigger.

4) Big Love's face goes out of the area of V alphabet whilst Little Lady's face stays well within the V area.
Desired effect in comparison: Need I say more?

Disgusting! Don't implictly send messages to the readers, we are not idiots.Dakota is a small girl but there is no need to make the bigger girl look bigger in a side by side edition. Discrimination, I say! It is not fair to Gaby.

I believe it would only be fair to have the girls styled the same way in an exact replica shoot like your previous size issue.

Shame on you V, Shame on you cause Big is Beautiful too.

2 comments:

  1. Hmm...I saw this cover the other day and didn't think much of it until your post. We both know it is taking the magazine industry EONS to figure out that big is indeed beautiful. :(

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  2. Thanks for feeling my pain...hehehe. Boys and their cars. Grrr.

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