This is Vogue Italia's March 2014 cover.
The inside editorial by Steven Meisel, titled Abracadabra, portrays the white model in tribal warpaint.
And though there's no explicit blackface in the pages, the shoot certainly does call up tired tropes about the "exotic Other."
De Brauw's limbs are messily bronzed, and she's wearing vaguely ethnic facepaint.
The magazine's blanket co-optation of "African" culture as a monolithic concept, defined as primitive, aggressive, and exotic is disappointing.
But it's sadly not entirely surprising.
In October 2009, white model Lara Stone posed for Vogue Paris in full black body paint.
In February 2013, Numéro magazine published an editorial titled "African Queen" (unbelievable), featuring a white model in blackface.
And a month later, Vogue Netherlands produced an editorial called "Heritage Heroes," featuring models in full blackface.
When will these sorts of fashion editorials end?
