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10 year old Vogue model

201 replies

sherbertdipdab · 05/08/2011 07:48

VOGUE FGS

just when you thought it couldn't get any younger :(

www.inquisitr.com/132475/10-year-old-vogue-model-thylane-lena-rose-blondeau/

OP posts:
Indaba · 07/08/2011 19:55

sorry, not v it literate...hope this easier to cut and paste

[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected]

Will check out US publishers and post in a mo.

HarperSeven · 07/08/2011 19:57

Indaba - thanks for that.

Presumably this issue of French Vogue will be distributed in the UK? If that's right, we should take a collective stand and report the distribution as an offence under The Protection of Children 1978. Easy to check at the newsstand whether it is being sold.

Indaba · 07/08/2011 20:07

and here is global email address

[email protected]

but what we need is editors address...so will still look.

please email...posting on MN helps....but emailing them directly would be great!

kittensliveupstairs · 07/08/2011 20:10

I'll email them. My DD is 10, the idea of her posing like that little girl (that's what she is) is sickening.
The shot with the toothbrush is just nasty.

Indaba · 07/08/2011 20:14

sorry! typos......

here we go again....a global address is mentioned at end so please refer to French publication

[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected]

kittensliveupstairs · 07/08/2011 20:18

Done, I await a response and hope it isn't in French.

Indaba · 07/08/2011 20:23

Vogue is owned by:

Advance Publications, Inc.

which is run by Samuel Newhouse, Donald Newhouse & Thomas Summer

Can anyone get their email address?

"Advance Publications, Inc., is a privately held communications company that, directly or through subsidiaries, owns Condé Nast Publications, Parade Publications, Fairchild Publications, American City Business Journals, the Golf Digest Companies, and newspapers in more than twenty-five American cities; Advance Publications' subsidiaries also have extensive interests in cable television, as well as in Internet sites which are related to its print publications."

HarperSeven · 07/08/2011 20:29

I think some of the images linked by chaya5738 are actually from a different publication, Cadeaux magazine... not sure they're all from French Vogue.

Indaba · 07/08/2011 20:31

yes, its wrong

have cut and paste from message in AIBU to get more views.

Hope link works.

If you are as disgusted as us, please email/write/protest

I want email addresses of owners of Vogue (Advance Publications) and am still trying to find them so if you can help, please do

post read"

VOGUE FGS

just when you thought it couldn't get any younger sad

www.inquisitr.com/132475/10-year-old-vogue-model-thylane-lena-rose-blondeau/

French Vogue email contacts are:

[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];[email protected]

General Contact address is (ane please mention French publication)

[email protected]

CheerfulYank · 07/08/2011 21:24

Emailed. Just said that I wanted to express my disgust, that it was reprehensible to teach a child that she was "beautiful" when made up and posing like and adult woman, and I did not appreciate the implications that we, as women, should try to emulate the androgynous body of a pre-pubescent child. And that although I don't subscribe I do buy Vogue from the newstands every now and then, but will not be doing so again.

GabyG · 07/08/2011 22:10

If it's legal, it's time to change the law.

sherbertdipdab · 07/08/2011 22:45

OP here, thanks for all the email addresses Indaba

Lets try and get something positive to come out of the exploited images of a young child published in Vogue magazine.

Please email.
:)

OP posts:
exoticfruits · 08/08/2011 07:41

I will email-I think that we should all make a stand against exploitation of children.

kittensliveupstairs · 08/08/2011 11:54

I am still waiting for a reply. Hopefully they have been inundated with emails.

LadyBeagleEyes · 08/08/2011 12:01

This has just been discussed on This Morning, the woman 'defending' it was famous for having modelled herself on Barbie, and has had thousands of pounds of plastic surgery.
She's also planning surgery for her very young daughter in the future. Shock.
Did anyone else see it?

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 08/08/2011 12:03

No, but I'll look for it on YouTube ? thanks LadyBeagle. Couldn't they have found someone less provocative to defend it? I understand that they do it for the drama/ratings, but I'd actually be interested in what someone rather less obviously biased had to say in its defence, in the interests of a nuanced argument.

Xenia · 08/08/2011 13:16

I am sure it makes better television though if they have polarised views. Then less we ban the better but people can express views of course.

minipie · 08/08/2011 14:23

I agree with Xenia

I don't like these images at all. But they aren't illegal and I don't think they should be.

The solution is not more regulation. The solution is for everyone to stop buying bloody Vogue (and in fact all other magazines which use models who are under 18 and/or very underweight - so that's most of them then).

If that happened then magazines would have to wake up and use adult, healthy weight models.

Vote with your purse.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 08/08/2011 15:38

minipie, that's my view too. I agree that it's important that we have a free press ? so many places don't and in the UK I think we take it for granted sometimes ? but we also have free speech. In a capitalist society our right to free speech is often best utilised through our right not to buy things. I think it's important though for those who object not just to stop buying Conde Nast products but also to explain to the company why they're doing so.

minipie · 08/08/2011 15:41

Yes, agreed, makes sense to write to the publisher too.

PhylisStein · 10/08/2011 09:19

yuk yuk yuk

SherlockGnomes · 28/04/2012 16:48

Has anyone linked to this yet? Parents not happy - but I do wonder if they're just reacting to the backlash?

WorraLiberty · 28/04/2012 16:56

Isn't that the same link that was in the OP?

They're both date August 2011 but it won't load properly for me.

SherlockGnomes · 28/04/2012 19:00

Naa this one has more photos - some with A LOT of leg..WTAF

splashymcsplash · 28/04/2012 19:09

Why has such an old thread been resurrected?