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LUCIRE
HAS traditionally not bothered about issues of race or weight,
but when writing about an icon like Iman, it is hard to avoid discussing
ideas of colour.
Not that Lucire shies away from tough topics.
It is simply that, with a multinational, multiracial team, the issues
play little on the magazines daily life, while we prefer to
live by example. But the topics are intertwined with Iman, who represents
not just African ethnicity but contributes to ideas of global beauty.
It would doubly be a disservice to write about Iman out of context.
With her looks, she became one of the worlds
most visible signsever since appearing in Vogue in
the 1970sthat western mass media were abandoning their patriarchal,
racist approaches. Society was changing and the media began recognizing
this.
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