The March cover of Vanity Fair features nine gorgeous actresses in the annual “New Hollywood” issue. The women are touted as “the fresh faces of 2010”. Detractors are crying foul because the magazine seems to have dismissed anyone who doesn’t happen to be Caucasian.
Gracing the cover are Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood and Anna Kendrik.
Vanity Fair writer Eugenia Peretz fairly gushed with praise for the magazine’s 2010 celebrity choices, pointing out their “dewy eyed loveliness” and “ivory-soap-girl features”.
Two of the above celebrated women, Stewart and Seyfried, actually appeared on the VF 2008 cover — which would seem to indicate that the magazine was hard pressed to come up with nine fresh new faces. Could they not have chosen Zoe Saldana of “Avatar” and “Star Trek”, Freida Pinto of “Slumdog Millionaire” or Gabourey Sidibe of “Precious”?
The crux of the controversy is the fact that some very talented women were overlooked because they apparently didn’t fit into the “very white” mindset that Vanity Fair continues to perpetuate with its yearly cavalcade of women of a certain type.
Check out more Vanity Fair photos by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz below.