Arlenis, in Vogue

Jun 18, 2008 @ 4:18pm

arlenis us vogue pull.jpg This just in from our Inbox:

Arlenis hamming it up alongside Chanel Iman and Jourdan Dunn in July's Vogue!

We knew she was being shot for the mag, but we didn't put together how amazing that would be for her until we actually saw it.

Picture it - this girl was just heading to class just a few weeks from her nineteenth birthday not even three months ago, and now she's smiling in the pages of one of the glossiest publications in the world, walking runways all over, and who knows what next.

So, July issue of US Vogue - check. July issue of Vogue Italia? Hm...

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posted by socialista

Jun 18, 2008 4:23PM

She is ridiculously beautiful

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 4:26PM

She's beautiful

posted by kijjalyn

Jun 18, 2008 4:27PM

LOVE IT!

How does one get a copy of the Vogue Italia? I need it to live.

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 4:32PM

us dr uk

YAY

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 4:32PM

stunning beauty.

posted by andremichael

Jun 18, 2008 4:41PM

... this makes me so happy.

another small step. good job Vogue.

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 4:45PM

I love her eyebrows

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 4:52PM

She blows Jourdan out of the water.

posted by Modupe

Jun 18, 2008 5:08PM

omg, chanel and jourdan hand in hand? are these two getting along or are models just really great actresses?

posted by stylecrusader

Jun 18, 2008 5:09PM

I think Arlenis is gonna blow both Chanel & Jourdan out of the water.

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 5:16PM

chanel and jourdan were inseperable backstage at the dior resort show. taking photos of one another, etc. i think they're pals.

posted by Fabulosity

Jun 18, 2008 5:19PM

umm how did you get your issue already?
i'm in Soho and am having a HELL of a time finding it..please share?

i just called the mag shop on Lafayette and they only just got the June issue...

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 5:45PM

oh wow. she even looks healthy. i'm a fan.

posted by Jac

Jun 18, 2008 5:53PM

once again, the comparison of the black models. why won't she blow coco or karly out of the water?

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 6:17PM

lucky, lucky!!!

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 6:31PM

Modupe ? Getting Along? I mean come on! Why wouldnt they? The industry loves to pit black models against one another as in Tyra and Naomi. Leave it be! Of course they get along. How many white fashion models are hand and hand in a magazine! Ughhh

And yeah Arlenis blowing Chanel and Jourdan out of the water??? She will blow these frail pale white models out of the water before Chanel or Jourdan..stop with the racism and thinking that there is only room for one black model!

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 7:39PM

this is off topic and a downer but did anyone see the latest entry for supreme's new blog. it just really disturbed me to see this disgusting comparison

http://www.suprememanagement.com/being/?p=251

if fashion is trying to convince the world they're not racist i would think they'd think twice before perpetuating sad insulting stereotypes.

but on a lighter note all of the girls look beautiful in the editorial and hopefully they have much more work coming in the future!

posted by guest

Jun 18, 2008 8:18PM

All three models are beautiful esp. Jourdan.

posted by Jac

Jun 18, 2008 9:00PM

I think I may have interpreted the above comments wrong, it seems normal to compare them if theyre posing together--I just dislike random comparisons that only foster divisiveness between black and white models. Sorry if I got it wrong!

posted by dumbbrunette5

Jun 19, 2008 7:06AM

ohmygosh arlenis is gorgeous. i like the rest of the photos too. although jourdan's facial expression is kind of weird in the second photo, am i the only one that thinks this? i think its just this photo though cuz ive seen other pics of her where she looked stunning

posted by guest

Jun 19, 2008 5:16PM

ugh. so beautiful it's DEADLY.

we need to start some sort of network to track down Vogue Italia issues.

posted by guest

Jun 19, 2008 8:14PM

Arlenis isn't even black; she's Dominican. The modeling industry just loves grouping the few non-white models it has together.

posted by guest

Jun 19, 2008 10:42PM

a lot of dominican and hispanic people do have african descendants, so she is really just as "black" as an african american seeing t6hat most AA people are mixed.

posted by valenlb

Jun 20, 2008 2:29PM

she is stunning!

posted by guest

Jun 22, 2008 5:01PM

She IS black, but she is latina black,not as the afroamerican blacks.
If she would've lived in the US she would be part of the latino's community.

posted by guest

Jun 22, 2008 10:36PM

nobody questioned her latin culture but race is based on heritage and not culture alone.it's not as if all people with african decent automatically have one culture in common whether they live in north american, south america, africa, europe where ever. but she does have african heritage in common with "black" americans. racial categories are basically social constructs anyway. many people are mixed with european, native american/ first nation's, and african and considered black. she is dominicana but the latin world isn't any more colorblind than the anglophone world with all the categories (blanca,canela,triguena, morena, mulata, negra etc.) people are put under based on skin tone which are basically glorified caste systems, in my opinion.