Vogue editor Anna Wintour is reportedly courting the Knicks' $100 million power forward Amar'e Stoudemire to cover Vogue, reports Page Six.
Wintour, who put LeBron James on her cover a few years back ... personally invited Stoudemire to last night's Fashion's Night Out runway show at Lincoln Center, and word is he'll join editor-at-large Hamish Bowles at the Tommy Hilfiger runway show on Sunday. "Amar'e wasn't planning on going out last night, but he changed his mind after getting the invite from Anna," said a pal of the athlete.
Hopefully Stoudemire won't be "styled" in the same King Kong-inspired "fashion forward" aesthetic as LeBron James, when he posed with Gisele Bundchen in March 2008 to become the first Black man to cover Vogue in its 115-year history.
In related news: Halle Berry covers the current September 2010 Vogue. Berry is the first non-white person grace the publication's all-important September issue in more than 20 years. "The last—and first, it should be noted—was Naomi Campbell’s in 1989," reports Styleite.com. "[Berry] is part of only a small handful of black cover stars ever. There have been a total of 14 in the history of the magazine and all its international editions."
Those numbers speak for themselves, no?
Will he get the King Kong treatment as well?
Posted by: A. Ronald | 08 September 2010 at 15:54
Road you should get cover photos with the King and Amare.. I'm sure they'd be more flattering than the Konging that LeBron got.
Posted by: Bill | 08 September 2010 at 15:57
Wintour has a thing for black men. She was also fcuking Bob Marley.
Apparently black women not so much.
Posted by: Carlos | 08 September 2010 at 16:04
Is this something to be happy about? Don't get me wrong i respect Vogue and its platform within the fashion community but there are plenty of worthy black models out there who should be within its pages. What they did to LeBron speaks to how they look at black people. At least I think so.
Posted by: Ursovain | 08 September 2010 at 20:13
Yeah not impressed, high fashion coonin'.
Posted by: Freeman | 08 September 2010 at 20:18
If Tyra wasn't on the cover, I really don't care about them at all. Moving on...
Posted by: athought | 09 September 2010 at 04:29
What gets me is how these black men don't seem to mind, and even pander the king kong, hypersexual machismo to the public. I second Ursovain.
Posted by: Brien | 09 September 2010 at 08:14
I am not a fan of Vogue when it pertains to black men. They have yet to respect him on their covers. The King Kong image still upsets me. For the first black man to be depicted this way says a lot. Because she okayed the shoot and the cover. A.S. should ask for final okay of images. If he doesn't get it, he shouldn't do it!!
Posted by: Diva1961 | 09 September 2010 at 08:56
OK, in the case of the LeBron James cover, LeBron James has people that very carefully craft his image, so why are we giving Anna Wintour so much fever and not LeBron James; I would assume that he had some voice in that approval process.
Not trying to defend Wintour here, but black men are making the decision to do these tyoes of artistic things (i.e. the thugged out Tiger Woods on the issue of Vanity Fair)
Posted by: Chitown Kev | 09 September 2010 at 11:55
that s/b "types"
OH, and Stoudemire is one fine, FINE man with those sexy-ass lips of his.
Posted by: Chitown Kev | 09 September 2010 at 11:56
They have some approval, but not always the final approval. Also what they tell the talent what the image means as opposed to what it really says does have to rest on the talent also. So yes, James should take the flack also, but not only. He was told it would make him seem like king of the world, but it really was more like a big, stupid monkey.
The fact that the concept and the presentation of the concept starts with the magazine which means the magazine has to take responsibilty. Why start with a concept with the first black man on your cover as a monkey? That speaks to the mentality of the magazine.
Also, Tiger had nothing to do with the darkening of his photo on VanityFair. The magazine did that.
So I am still wary of these type magazines and how they protray black men. The fact they start with such negative concepts (which start in the magazine's editorial meetings), says a lot about the magazine. The fact they don't think about how the image will be seen by black america (yes, I know they don't feel black america is their audience) says even more about how out of touch they are. that's my 7 cents.
Posted by: Diva1961 | 09 September 2010 at 19:47
Oh what the heck!!! What's wrong with it.
Posted by: Susan "Learn Vertical Jumping" Adams | 07 October 2010 at 18:28