Kamala Harris' February Vogue Cover Sparks Frenzy on Social Media

Vogue revealed its February cover of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sunday, which was slammed by supporters for outfitting Harris in Converse shoes.

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Vogue has revealed the cover for its February issue starring Kamala Harris—and people weren’t too pleased with the first cover option, which shows the vice president-elect in a very casual outfit, wearing a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors.

A source told journalist Yashar Ali that this cover is also not what Harris’ team “expected.”

Some fashion magazine news....

1. The February Vogue cover featuring VP-elect Kamala Harris has been widely criticized on social media this evening

But according to a source familiar with the publication plans, this is not the cover that the Vice President-elect's team expected pic.twitter.com/lBC9DnfYNC

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 10, 2021

Ali writes that Harris’ team anticipated her wearing a powder blue suit, the cover that her team and the Vogue team—including Anna Wintour—“mutually agreed upon.”

3. To be clear, this Vogue cover of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is real.

It's just that per a source familiar, this is not the cover that was mutually agreed upon. The agreed upon cover had VP-elect Harris in a powder blue suit.

So folks feel blindsided this evening. pic.twitter.com/PRhTBpXzxm

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 10, 2021

Vogue then dropped the cover option with Harris in the powder blue suit, but according to Ali, “I’m told this cover on the left will be the digital cover, but the much maligned cover on the right has already gone to print and will be the cover available for sale and sent to subscribers.”

4. Here is the Vogue cover Kamala Harris’ team thought would be released.

I’m told this cover on the left will be the digital cover, but the much maligned cover on the right has already gone to print and will be the cover available for sale and sent to subscribers. pic.twitter.com/5eWjPMTbdP

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 10, 2021

Cue one very unhappy internet.

This isn’t just a fashion issue. Vogue is undermining the authority of our first Black and Asian American woman Vice President at a time when millions of Republicans don’t recognize her as legitimate. https://t.co/9GPKFjSAuX

— Dr. Leta Hong Fincher 洪理达 (@LetaHong) January 10, 2021

Delete the chucks picture and change the cover to the blue suit MVP agreed to...this is disrespectful.

— Reecie @BlackWomenViews (@ReecieColbert) January 10, 2021

Here are your last two covers, they’re beautiful. This cover is unacceptable.
What the fuck were you thinking? pic.twitter.com/RAjkycmipC

— celia (@_celia_bedelia_) January 10, 2021

The cover on the left (with the Chuck Ts) had no business being selected or even offered as an option.

This speaks volumes of how you view our Madam Vice President.

— Adrienne Lawrence, Esq. (@AdrienneLaw) January 10, 2021

You know Black women are about to drag you for a whole ass 24 hours, right?

— 🤌🏾 Imani Gandy 👆🏾 (@AngryBlackLady) January 10, 2021

Anna Wintour needs to retire if she thought the second photo was Vogue cover worthy. The first photo is powerful and elegant. It’s the Vogue cover Kamala Harris deserved https://t.co/ZVq28u7nKT

— ᴊᴇʟᴀ (@jelevision) January 10, 2021

Chile...this is how you shoot a Black woman & the now first woman Vice President. I'll wait for the Essence or Ebony covers. I'll have more on the treachery and disrespect from Anna Wintour with that bull shit Vogue cover in #AintDisSomeShh Vol. 2 later today. #MVPHarris pic.twitter.com/KcUeV0eShF

— Reecie @BlackWomenViews (@ReecieColbert) January 10, 2021

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