Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Vogue Cover Backlash: Anna Wintour Defends, Readers and Players Respond
The backlash first caught fire Friday when CBS’ “The Crazy Ones” star Sarah Michelle Gellar tweeted: “Well……I guess I'm canceling my Vogue subscription. Who is with me???”
Apparently many readers were just as displeased as Gellar with the choice, as evidenced across social media. The Vogue official Facebook page racked up 747 comments at the time of this posting — the majority of which are critical of the editor's decision to feature Kardashian and West on the cover.
See photo: James Franco and Seth Rogen Spoof Kanye and Kim Kardashian's Vogue Cover
TheWrap pulled a sampling of just some of the comments from fans on Vogue's Facebook Wall:
“We all knew Vogue was dying, but this is it. The official death of Vogue,” wrote reader Freya Greaves.
Michelle A. Morgan added: “Lupita won an Oscar and Kim Kardashian is on the … I can't even bring myself to say it.”
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The angry opinions just go on and on from there. Of course, the spoofs came as well, first a Muppets one, with Kermit embracing Miss Piggy, then Seth Rogen and James Franco — the duo that also brilliantly remade West's music video for “Bound 2” — got in on the action.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour penned an editor's letter defending the decision and preemptively explaining that West did not coerce the magazine into the cover shoot.
“Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world's spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that,” Wintour wrote. “I think we can all agree on the fact that that role is currently being played by Kim and Kanye to a T. (Or perhaps that should be to a K?)."
Wintour added: ”There's barely a strand of the modern media that the Kardashian Wests haven't been able to master.”
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