Vogue India features "poor" people on the street to model such as items as
a Louis Vuitton baby bib and has an old man holding a Burbery umbrella.
Vogue India has just come out this past year and the magazine is still
making editorial judgements as to how one should market luxury goods in
a country with a wide socioeconomic divide. Vogue China launched,in 2005,
has not had the same problems because most of the poor live in more rural
areas. Both issues have had a public relations problems with their debut
covers because they have Australian model,Gemma Ward, in the center of both
issues. The objection is that even though both magazines have Indian and
Chinese models, the attention is given to the Caucasian model and not the more
ethnic, less Anglo look. The Indians are more sensitive to this, having been
under British colonial rule and the feeling lighter skinned Indians are
considered more beautiful. Vogue appears to have pictured Western beauty
standards in a different cultural market.
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