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French Vogue Features Blackface

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Model Lara Stone dons dark makeup.

What must Anna Wintour think? In a move likely to raise more than a few eyebrows, the latest French Vogue features a 14-page shoot of white supermodel Lara Stone in blackface. The shoot was styled by Wintour's edgier French counterpart, Editor in Chief Carine Roitfeld. It's not the first blackface story to make news this week: Harry Connick Jr. recently made headlines for chastising a blackface Jackson 5 tribute on an Australian TV show.

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