Oh look, y'all no longer offer account deletion. Remarkably convenient. Fuck you guys, seriously. I don't even know what to say about this post or about this INCREDIBLY lackluster 'response'.

I've been a starred commenter for years and I'm deleting my account now. This is unacceptable.

If VF realized that their SUPER-UPSCALE LIEBOWITZ HOLLYWOOD COVER is becoming a laughingstock, you bet your sweet bippy they'll change it. But a few hundred people not buying it who wouldn't buy it anyway won't make a lick of difference. So yes, posts like this and people realizing how wack VF's practice is are useful.

Let's all immediately rush to say this has nothing to do with racism and it's REALLY x, y, z, bananaphone, limerick oysters, etc.

Vanity Fair is a business; no one's artistic expression is being censored by calling out what is a recurring and racist business practice; if you're arguing that nonwhite women are represented proportionally in Hollywood I would like to introduce you to every single movie out of a major studio last year; if you're…

Yes, ignoring and handwaving it will CERTAINLY ensure better representation and recognition of POC in Hollywood.

and SNL is a notoriously treacherous audience. None of the crowd has paid to come see you and there's no guarantee they will even know who you are. So you better be either already successful enough that they will be familiar with your work OR have a balls amazing stage presence that will knock them off their feet. …

[bit.ly] that should help.

Exactly. Exaaaactly.

I hear what you're saying, but she's a clothing historian who has researched, and is specifically talking about, the cultural history of corsets. I'm not sure what you want from her.

I think you're straw-manning me a bit. Steele isn't saying corsets were a feminist choice for Victorian women, but neither were they automatically oppressive torture chambers inflicted upon them by the cruel hands of men. They were articles of clothing and as such imbued with a whole spectrum of meaning by their…

Okay, then Victorian women didn't style their hair or pick higher-heeled shoes or select the ribbons for their bonnets "of their own volition", either.

I've read Steele's book and it's fantastic and very thoroughly researched. I refer to it often as a costume designer. It's very easy to look backwards and think, "The 19th century was oppressive to women and women wore corsets, therefore, the corset was oppressive to women!". But it is more complex than that, and in…

Because you were cinched MORE than most adult Victorians were while still a very young teenager I'm not sure your personal experience refutes what Steele's staying. I've read Steele's book and much of what she is saying that extreme fashion circumstance (cf: couture models and the clothes they wear; historical…

Super rich people do super expensive Christmas? Am I supposed to be outraged or surprised?

It's a Cabaret reference, I think.

I graduated fairly recently with a degree in theatre design and have seen quite a bit of college and semi-professional theatre since. Safe to say steampunk has been ruined for a few years now. IT'S MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ONLY STEAMPUNK! IT'S AROUND THE WORLD AND EIGHTY DAYS, ONLY STEAMPUNK! IT'S ANNIE GET YOUR GUN,…

"Please relax" is a hilariously terribad response to someone calling out racism. How will folks in sixty years look at these "indian" caricature costumes? the same way we now look at blackface? It's tacky, it's racist, it's pissing off real people who exist, and it needs to stop.

Yup. Where's the Chris Brown treatment for Fassy?

It's googlable. Sunawin Andrews is his ex-girlfriend. She filed a restraining order and claimed he broke her nose in 2009 and on another occasion dragged her alongside a car hard enough to blow out a kneecap and burst an ovarian cyst. The restraining order was later dropped.