L’Officiel Hommes #19 | Keep It Goin’ Louder – Arthur Sales by Milan Vukmirovic

This is ridicu­lous. So freak­ing tacky. I don’t under­stand how peo­ple still think things like this are a good idea. It’s depressing.

This is ridicu­lous. So freak­ing tacky. I don’t under­stand how peo­ple still think things like this are a good idea. It’s depressing.

I am just sur­prised that most peo­ple don’t even under­stand black­face. This is hardly it. Only pic­ture I could even find barely offen­sive (as a black man) is the one with the cross in his mouth but really none of this offends me. I am not Jesse Jack­son and this in no way is actu­ally close to mock­ing African Amer­i­cans. Now if he had grits drip­ping from his mouth and he sat on a porch say­ing “ma say git gon n clean duh zink!” than yeah I would be offended. A lit­tle too much white guilt going on in here.

I am just sur­prised that most peo­ple don’t even under­stand black­face. This is hardly it. Only pic­ture I could even find barely offen­sive (as a black man) is the one with the cross in his mouth but really none of this offends me. I am not Jesse Jack­son and this in no way is actu­ally close to mock­ing African Amer­i­cans. Now if he had grits drip­ping from his mouth and he sat on a porch say­ing “ma say git gon n clean duh zink!” than yeah I would be offended. A lit­tle too much white guilt going on in here.

I am just sur­prised that most peo­ple don’t even under­stand black­face. This is hardly it. Only pic­ture I could even find barely offen­sive (as a black man) is the one with the cross in his mouth but really none of this offends me. I am not Jesse Jack­son and this in no way is actu­ally close to mock­ing African Amer­i­cans. Now if he had grits drip­ping from his mouth and he sat on a porch say­ing “ma say git gon n clean duh zink!” than yeah I would be offended. A lit­tle too much white guilt going on in here.

THERE IS NO RACISM IN THIS PHOTOS. iT’S A GREAT JOB!!!

THERE IS NO RACISM IN THIS PHOTOS. iT’S A GREAT JOB!!!

i don’t really care about the racism but he just looks dumb… it’s so heav­ily pho­to­shopped; he doesn’t even look human. he looks like the old navy mannequins!

i don’t really care about the racism but he just looks dumb… it’s so heav­ily pho­to­shopped; he doesn’t even look human. he looks like the old navy mannequins!

Epic fail on the part of L’Officiel. I was totally gonna buy this issue, until I saw this mess of an edi­to­r­ial. Shit like this doesn’t help the per­cep­tion of the fash­ion indus­try as inher­ently racist, and is a fur­ther slap in the face of black male mod­els, who have to work it twice as hard to get the 2 per­cent of the work they cur­rently get. Has L’Officiel ever even had a black male on it’s cover?

Epic fail on the part of L’Officiel. I was totally gonna buy this issue, until I saw this mess of an edi­to­r­ial. Shit like this doesn’t help the per­cep­tion of the fash­ion indus­try as inher­ently racist, and is a fur­ther slap in the face of black male mod­els, who have to work it twice as hard to get the 2 per­cent of the work they cur­rently get. Has L’Officiel ever even had a black male on it’s cover?

“i don’t really care about the racism but he just looks dumb… it’s so heav­ily pho­to­shopped; he doesn’t even look human. he looks like the old navy man­nequins!“
true. Peo­ple need to look past all the con­tro­versy and take the art as it is.

“i don’t really care about the racism but he just looks dumb… it’s so heav­ily pho­to­shopped; he doesn’t even look human. he looks like the old navy man­nequins!“
true. Peo­ple need to look past all the con­tro­versy and take the art as it is.

“i don’t really care about the racism but he just looks dumb… it’s so heav­ily pho­to­shopped; he doesn’t even look human. he looks like the old navy man­nequins!“
true. Peo­ple need to look past all the con­tro­versy and take the art as it is.

Seri­ous lack of ideas.

Seri­ous lack of ideas.

Wow.
Total fail.
Show­ing lack of diver­sity is really a new way to attract attention

push­ing boudaries and get­ting peo­ple to think is what art is about.….….do i find this interesting„no. do i find it tacky„no. this is not my taste but at least some peo­ple can get some­thing out of it. seri­ously though. this is not black face in what black face was really about back before the civil rights move­ment. its some­one with paint on themself.….lol whether its black, green, white, orange, or whatever.…..its just color.….don’t be so sensitive. :)

push­ing boudaries and get­ting peo­ple to think is what art is about.….….do i find this interesting„no. do i find it tacky„no. this is not my taste but at least some peo­ple can get some­thing out of it. seri­ously though. this is not black face in what black face was really about back before the civil rights move­ment. its some­one with paint on themself.….lol whether its black, green, white, orange, or whatever.…..its just color.….don’t be so sensitive. :)

This is silly. I don’t think it’s silly because of the black face thing, I think it is because the shoot looks campy and cheesy. My ques­tion is, does any­one no what the arti­cle was about? Maybe they were try­ing to make some polit­i­cal state­ment about the US, It is a French mag­a­zine. It’s not like they tried to trick the audi­ence into think­ing the guy was black. His arms and chest were still white. I think as black peo­ple, cul­tur­ally we’ve grown too sen­si­tive. We are ready to cry wolf about every­thing. Of course we know there is still a lot of racism in the world but when we start com­plain­ing about Axe com­mer­cials because the guy was made of choco­late, it gets to the point were the media is walk­ing on eggshells with “black mat­ters”, and every­thing gets con­vo­luted. No point is made but don’t offend the “blacks”.

This is silly. I don’t think it’s silly because of the black face thing, I think it is because the shoot looks campy and cheesy. My ques­tion is, does any­one no what the arti­cle was about? Maybe they were try­ing to make some polit­i­cal state­ment about the US, It is a French mag­a­zine. It’s not like they tried to trick the audi­ence into think­ing the guy was black. His arms and chest were still white. I think as black peo­ple, cul­tur­ally we’ve grown too sen­si­tive. We are ready to cry wolf about every­thing. Of course we know there is still a lot of racism in the world but when we start com­plain­ing about Axe com­mer­cials because the guy was made of choco­late, it gets to the point were the media is walk­ing on eggshells with “black mat­ters”, and every­thing gets con­vo­luted. No point is made but don’t offend the “blacks”.

ONE WORD — LAME!!!!!!!!!!! First of all it’s offen­sive and sec­ond it’s really lame of Milan to copy the work of the other pho­tog­ra­phers who did the same thing with female mod­els recently. Try­ing to jump on the con­tro­versy boat after it sailed to get atten­tion for your work and the mag­a­zine and then doing it in a lowe qual­ity way — come on. The qual­ity of the pho­tog­ra­phy and the styling is really bor­der­ing on cheeszy !

Learn a les­son from Hel­mut New­ton — if your going to do some­thing that some peo­ple may find offen­sive — at least make it visu­ally sophis­ti­cated and visu­ally stun­ning. By doing a sloppy job you look bad all around.

ONE WORD — LAME!!!!!!!!!!! First of all it’s offen­sive and sec­ond it’s really lame of Milan to copy the work of the other pho­tog­ra­phers who did the same thing with female mod­els recently. Try­ing to jump on the con­tro­versy boat after it sailed to get atten­tion for your work and the mag­a­zine and then doing it in a lowe qual­ity way — come on. The qual­ity of the pho­tog­ra­phy and the styling is really bor­der­ing on cheeszy !

Learn a les­son from Hel­mut New­ton — if your going to do some­thing that some peo­ple may find offen­sive — at least make it visu­ally sophis­ti­cated and visu­ally stun­ning. By doing a sloppy job you look bad all around.

In brazil­ian car­ni­val in rio de janeiro white peo­ple paint black face (vila isabel). In our coun­try nobody is only white or black. No prob­lem with the photos.

to all the peo­ple who aren’t get­ting it, this is very racist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

Per­haps you’re not aware of Amer­i­can his­tory but for those of us who are, it’s very offensive.

to all the peo­ple who aren’t get­ting it, this is very racist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

Per­haps you’re not aware of Amer­i­can his­tory but for those of us who are, it’s very offensive.

Milan Vuk­mirovic of World.

Milan Vuk­mirovic of World.

Milan Vuk­mirovic of World.

It seems like the fash­ion shoot is influ­enced by the french film, Agathe Clery, which came out some­time in 2008~2009, about a cos­metic sales­woman whose skin turns darker due to hyper pig­men­ta­tion. Think it raises racial dis­cus­sion, not dis­crim­i­na­tion, etc. I would think if this was the case, then wouldn’t fake tan­ning and skin bleach­ing also end up being racial issues, not just “fash­ion­able” options? Hav­ing said that, aes­thet­ics wise, I don’t like the shoot itself — but not because of any colour-​​related reasons.

It seems like the fash­ion shoot is influ­enced by the french film, Agathe Clery, which came out some­time in 2008~2009, about a cos­metic sales­woman whose skin turns darker due to hyper pig­men­ta­tion. Think it raises racial dis­cus­sion, not dis­crim­i­na­tion, etc. I would think if this was the case, then wouldn’t fake tan­ning and skin bleach­ing also end up being racial issues, not just “fash­ion­able” options? Hav­ing said that, aes­thet­ics wise, I don’t like the shoot itself — but not because of any colour-​​related reasons.

I find noth­ing wrong with this, except that the shoot roy­ally sucks.… Noth­ing worked

I find noth­ing wrong with this, except that the shoot roy­ally sucks.… Noth­ing worked

I find noth­ing wrong with this, except that the shoot roy­ally sucks.… Noth­ing worked

It’s actu­ally pay­ing homage to the amaz­ingly cool style african amer­i­cans have had for a long time. From dap­per jazz play­ers (Duke Elling­ton) and geniuses (Miles Davis (check some of his 80s styling… whacky stuff!)) to the shut-​​up-​​mutha-​​fucka mean­ness of Black Pan­thers (it’s not my inten­tion to de-​​politize their actions).
The white mod­els por­trayed here want to con­vert them­selves and pay homage to all those great peo­ple and its sym­bol­ized through the paint­ing.
I really don’t see any­thing offen­sive here apart from the naivety of the idea.

It’s actu­ally pay­ing homage to the amaz­ingly cool style african amer­i­cans have had for a long time. From dap­per jazz play­ers (Duke Elling­ton) and geniuses (Miles Davis (check some of his 80s styling… whacky stuff!)) to the shut-​​up-​​mutha-​​fucka mean­ness of Black Pan­thers (it’s not my inten­tion to de-​​politize their actions).
The white mod­els por­trayed here want to con­vert them­selves and pay homage to all those great peo­ple and its sym­bol­ized through the paint­ing.
I really don’t see any­thing offen­sive here apart from the naivety of the idea.

This is actu­ally dis­gust­ing! I am appalled that peo­ple don’t under­stand the his­tory of Black­face and how racially demean­ing it is. I am an African Amer­i­can woman who is shocked that there are peo­ple on here agree­ing with this mock­ery. This isn’t art. This is Ayr­i­an­ism . The fact that some­one would por­tray an ad like this makes a joke of all the pain and anguish that peo­ple of African descent had to endure dur­ing the Al Jol­son era and beyond. For cen­turies African peo­ples have been dehu­man­ized and degraded by Euro­peans, since the begin­ning of slav­ery and I see no end in sight. It’s up to intel­li­gent African per­sons such as myself to point out hate pro­pa­ganda and expose it for what it really is. This is racism pure and sim­ple and any­one who says dif­fer­ent is purely delu­sional. Wake up African peo­ples and stop let­ting Euro­peans make fun of your entire existence!

This is actu­ally dis­gust­ing! I am appalled that peo­ple don’t under­stand the his­tory of Black­face and how racially demean­ing it is. I am an African Amer­i­can woman who is shocked that there are peo­ple on here agree­ing with this mock­ery. This isn’t art. This is Ayr­i­an­ism . The fact that some­one would por­tray an ad like this makes a joke of all the pain and anguish that peo­ple of African descent had to endure dur­ing the Al Jol­son era and beyond. For cen­turies African peo­ples have been dehu­man­ized and degraded by Euro­peans, since the begin­ning of slav­ery and I see no end in sight. It’s up to intel­li­gent African per­sons such as myself to point out hate pro­pa­ganda and expose it for what it really is. This is racism pure and sim­ple and any­one who says dif­fer­ent is purely delu­sional. Wake up African peo­ples and stop let­ting Euro­peans make fun of your entire existence!

This is actu­ally dis­gust­ing! I am appalled that peo­ple don’t under­stand the his­tory of Black­face and how racially demean­ing it is. I am an African Amer­i­can woman who is shocked that there are peo­ple on here agree­ing with this mock­ery. This isn’t art. This is Ayr­i­an­ism . The fact that some­one would por­tray an ad like this makes a joke of all the pain and anguish that peo­ple of African descent had to endure dur­ing the Al Jol­son era and beyond. For cen­turies African peo­ples have been dehu­man­ized and degraded by Euro­peans, since the begin­ning of slav­ery and I see no end in sight. It’s up to intel­li­gent African per­sons such as myself to point out hate pro­pa­ganda and expose it for what it really is. This is racism pure and sim­ple and any­one who says dif­fer­ent is purely delu­sional. Wake up African peo­ples and stop let­ting Euro­peans make fun of your entire existence!