Ballerinas are mad at Kendall Jenner for her dumb Vogue Espana editorial
Kendall Jenner is the October cover girl for Vogue Espana. It’s her fifth Vogue cover overall. And I still don’t really get it, the hype around Kendall. It’s all a mystery to me. For Vogue Espana, Kendall agreed to a ballet-themed shoot. In many of the photos, Kendall seems to be in some kind of ballet studio, wearing cute ballet-themed clothes, and even wearing pointe shoes. There’s also a video of Kendall not-being-a-ballerina and talking about absolutely nothing:
Do you see the problem? I’ll admit, I didn’t think there was a problem, or I didn’t recognize what some would see as a problem. The problem is that real ballerinas are really, really mad that the magazine did this shoot with someone who has no ballet training. They think it’s, like, ballerina appropriation.
Kendall Jenner is many things: a reckless driver; an excellent goth; a carbophobe. What she is not — as video evidence can attest — is a good dancer. Nevertheless, for a recent shoot Vogue España elected to dress the model in a variety of ballet-adjacent outfits and to film her sashaying around a dance studio. And when the ballet world caught wind of the video, it was not pleased.
“I had to grow up pretty fast, I love being a kid — to run around like a child just not caring,” Jenner says in the video. “I’ve always been adventurous, so I love doing stuff like that — I don’t know, just stupid stuff. I love walking around; being able to be free.”
“The video is, apparently, a sort of little-girl fantasy on ballerina-ness,” writes one blogger for Dance Spirit. “Which, O.K. But to our eyes, the whole thing reads as pretty disrespectful to the artists who devote their lives to this demanding craft.”
One tweet reads: “Kendall Jenner & that vogue ballet video is so horrible. Lol it’s actually offensive to people who trained in dance all their life.”
I’ve never really thought about it in those terms, like actual ballet dancers would be offended that an uncoordinated model was play-acting the “ballet” for the sake of a photo shoot. Would I be offended if Vogue did a photoshoot with Kendall pretending to be a blogger? LOL. Now I’m giggling at the idea of that. Kendall could get a pair of hipster glasses and blankly stare at a cute laptop, whilst wearing Prada. So glam. That’s exactly what my life is like! As for ballerinas hating on Kendall… I get it. It was a stupid editorial concept and Kendall is an idiot too.
Photos courtesy of Vogue Espana, Fame/Flynet, WENN, Instagram.
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