Vogue Called The Afro A ‘Cloud Bob’ And Black Women Are DONE With The Blatant Cultural Appropriation
Afros don’t need to be redefined at all. They are cemented in our visual identity, so just let afros be great! The post Vogue Called The Afro A ‘Cloud Bob’ And Black Women Are DONE With The Blatant Cultural Appropriation appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Vogue has played in our face once again by dubbing a clear afro a “cloud bob.” The publication recently released a list of summer haircuts under the “cloud bob” moniker that featured an image of Tracee Ellis Ross rocking her signature fro.
Threads, X, and TikTok lit up with people furious that the platform was renaming an iconic symbol of Black beauty. The list dropped the style shortly after and was republished as a list of 16 styles. Guess the “cloud bob” wasn’t that really essential this season after all, considering the backlash it brought.
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Not only did they attempt to label the style with a new name, but they also credited a celebrity stylist named Tom Smith with defining the look.
Smith issued a statement distancing himself from the controversy on Instagram following the onslaught of hate.
The criticism might have changed the final version of one story, but it didn’t erase the term or the implication that the style was defined by Smith from the platform altogether.
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