Vice President Kamala Harris has sparked controversy for her latest Vogue cover, as the publication features a profile declaring her a “candidate of our times.”
The Democratic presidential candidate posed in a Gabriela Hearst suit and her infamous Tiffany earrings for the fashion magazine’s October digital issue, but it wasn’t her fashion choices — or her policies — that got people fired up.
Users took to social media to comment on Harris, 59,’s apparent extensive retouching on the cover, published Friday.
‘It usually looks like a California raisin. They retouched his face with an airbrush,” declared one user.
“The magic of makeup and airbrushing like no one has ever done,” another chimed in.
The Democratic presidential candidate, 59, posed for the fashion magazine’s October digital edition, but it wasn’t her fashion choices — or her policies — that angered people.
“It’s not just an airbrush, look at the lighting… it looks like her face is from a different photo and they retouched it,” another observed.
‘Why does this look like AI?’ he questioned someone else. ‘His head and hands appear to float above the suit as if superimposed on a double. It’s scaring me.
In the caption posted on Instagram, the publication gushed about the presidential candidate.
“People are rarely called for national rescue events, but in July, Vice President Kamala Harris received one such call,” the publication wrote.
‘With President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election campaign, the world looked to Harris with hope and doubt
“She was a leader with broad support but no special followers, and now she was expected to do something unprecedented in American history: mount and win a presidential race in three months, as a woman of color, with a former criminal leader as the opposition and the future of democracy are at stake.
“You can always trust me to put country above party and self, to hold sacred America’s founding principles, from the rule of law to free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power,” Harris said by accepting the Democratic nomination at the Democratic National Convention in August. They were words that seemed like a title for the monumental moment in American history.
Vice President Kamala Harris has sparked controversy for her latest Vogue cover, as the publication features a profile declaring her a “candidate of our times.”
In the weeks leading up to Inauguration Day 2021, Harris appeared in an issue of Vogue looking casual in sneakers.
Vogue released two covers, one for the print edition and a digital alternative (pictured), which is the image Harris and her team had approved.
Users took to social media to comment on Harris, 59,’s apparent extensive retouching on the cover, published Friday.
Harris last appeared in Vogue on both the print and digital covers in February 2021, after being elected vice president.
The cover caused a stir on social media, with critics saying the magazine disrespected America’s first black vice president by “bleaching” her skin and putting her in a pair of Converse.
On the cover, Harris wore a black suit jacket, white T-shirt, dark shorts, and black lace-up sneakers.
Dozens of fans condemned the cover, saying the low-quality photo did not meet Vogue’s usual style standards.
A source told DailyMail.com that Harris had thought her preferred image, showing the vice president-elect in a light blue suit, would be used on the cover, and said she was only informed that the more “casual” photo of her wearing Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers were changed when the cover was leaked online.
Vogue later published the second digital cover, featuring Harris in a blue suit that she and her team had reportedly approved.