Vogue Mag Faces Flak For ‘Whitewashing’ Kamala Harris on Its Cover

Many on Twitter pointed out that the quality of the photos, too, did not match with Vogue’s usual standards.

Kamala Harris will be on Vogue’s February cover. Pretty cool, right? Not exactly.

The magazine – which released two photos of Harris from its February edition – has sparked instant outrage for “whitewashing” or lightening the skin colour of America’s future Vice-President.

Vogue, in a tweet on Sunday, 10 January, made public a photo of 56-year-old Harris wearing her trademark Converse sneakers, standing in front of a pink and green drape – the colours of her university sorority. The other, a more formal one, shows her in a powder blue suit, with her arms crossed in front of a gold background.

Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris is our February cover star!

Making history was the first step. Now Harris has an even more monumental task: to help heal a fractured America—and lead it out of crisis. Read the full profile: https://t.co/W5BQPTH7AU pic.twitter.com/OCFvVqTlOk

— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) January 10, 2021