French Vogue magazine came under fire this week for featuring a 10-year-old Parisian model in an over-sexualized photo spread that would put some top models to shame. Thylane Loubry Blondeau is shown wearing heavy make-up, haute couture and heels, while showing off seductive pouts and poses for the camera, and many believe that this is going to give even younger girls a misrepresentation of how they should look. Oh, and this isn’t her first run-in with high fashion; at age 5, Thylane did a runway show for Jean-Paul Gauthier.
Chloe Angyal, editor of Feminsting.com, was disgusted by the photos:
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“This isn’t edgy. It’s inappropriate, and creepy, and I never want to see a nine-year-old girl in high-heeled leopard print bedroom slippers ever again.”
Of course there are those that defend such photos as works of art. According to an Associate Professor of Psychology at Arizona Sate, photos like these are easy bait for a child ****ographer:
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“Any creepy child ****ographer could plead ‘artistic license. [The photos] clearly create an image of the girl as an adult woman, both in the clothing, the postures and emotional content of the images. The message is that very young girls can be dressed and viewed as young adult women.”
Yesterday, Thylane’s mother shut down her official facebook page so that she could shield her daughter from the media’s negative reaction. She wrote on facebook:
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Hey guys im the mum of thylane. Something’s going wrong at the moment with thylane and bad personn in usa about pictures she made 8 months ago for Vogue. Thylane doesn’t know about the buzz and I want to protect her from the deepest of my heart. She’s so young, so we are going to close this account for a while. I know all of you are good person who like her so I send you a big kiss. thanks
Already posted but again it's not trying to be seen as sexy, It's art and fashion.
Unless these photographers are throwing her in truly disgusting enviroments naked and selling the pictures to pedophiles behind a walgreens every month i don't see the problem.
This girl is beautiful, & definitely has a future in modeling, but a child's face should not be packed with makeup. Those things were made specifically for adult women.
I hope this photographer gets in trouble for this.
She has a really nice face but that picture is just weird to me. That picture reminds me of that orphan movie where that 30 something year old girl acts like she's 9
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