[full]Sarah Michelle Gellar just said what a lot of people were thinking about Kim Kardashian’s Vogue cover — blasting Anna Wintour for putting the reality TV star on the front of the fashion bible.[/full]
[full]But she’s definitely not alone in her anger. Commenters are ticked that the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star was picked for the magazine’s April spread — and they have been VERY vocal.
“Shame on you Anna Wintour….never buy your magazine ever again,” one person posted.
“Boycott, & Cancel in protest subscriptions to Vogue….This iconic magazine has lowered themselves by putting a woman who became famous by doing on Porno S3X Tape,” wrote another.
Wintour herself defended the cover in the issue’s Editor’s Letter.
“Part of the pleasure of editing Vogue, one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it,” she writes. “I think we can all agree on the fact that that role is currently being played by Kim and Kanye to a T. (Or perhaps that should be to a K?)”
“As for the cover, my opinion is that it is both charming and touching, and it was, I should add, entirely our idea to do it; you may have read that Kanye begged me to put his fiancée on Vogue’s cover. He did nothing of the sort,” she continues. “The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn’t true.”
“There’s barely a strand of the modern media that the Kardashian Wests haven’t been able to master, and for good reason: Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world’s spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that.”[/full]