oooh, dirt! ELLE uncovered a strange one! The above is the newest cover of Dossier magazine. (Nope me neither) But it features Andrej Pejic - Fashions hottest MALE model. Pejic's looks have meant that he often models women's wear as well but this decision is a little odd. American bookstore Barnes and Noble have made (and are paying for) the decision to censor the image!
The magazine will come with its own black cover in all of their stores - okaaaay, but the bookstore are aware that AP is male not female, but are still going ahead with the cover anyway.
Here is Elle's two cents on the matter :
The hot topic of the night was the controversy surrounding the cover, which features the androgynous young Jean Paul Gaultier model Andrej Pejic who appears topless. Turns out newsstands (OK, we’ll name them: Barnes & Noble and Borders) are covering the image for being too risque. Little do they know they’re censoring the image of a shirtless man. Katherine Krause, Dossier’s Editor-In-Chief, says that both bookstores have been made aware of Pejic’s gender but will move forward with the censoring. What’s more, it’s Dossier’s financial responsibility to pay for the black poly bags with which their distribution people must cover the magazines.
Weird. It's not the first time there has been a strange censorship decision taken by bookstores, some magazines censored the image of Elton John, his husband and their new baby. Afraid of what their customers might think. You can see the bigotry behind that one alright, its fairly out there, but just what is behind this one, I don't know.
0 Yorumlar