Franca Sozzani defends the oil spill inspired Vogue Italia August cover, and rightfully so, I might add. The oil spill happened. It’s going to affect us all many years to come. Not talking about, giving it a fake politically correct “respect” by not touching the subject isn’t going to save the animals, restore the ecosystem or give the Gulf Coast population their livelihoods back.
Franca Sozzani writes, “After all, there are films, artistic performances, theater pieces on violent events that surround us, why should a magazine be uprooted from reality, giving a stereotyped image of a glamour that is an end in itself? As I said more than once, inspiration can arise from any fact, event, fashion, or from a simple gesture or glance, besides films and characters.”
Read Franca Sozzani talking about this Oil Spill Issue and the past Black Issue here.
