Elaine George
Elaine George | |
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| Born | c.1975 (age 48–49) Queensland,Australia |
Elaine George(c.1976), later known asElaine Tanaka,is anAboriginal Australianfashion model. She was the first Aboriginalfashion modelmodel| to appear on the cover ofVoguemagazine, in the Australian edition, September 1993.
Early life
[edit]Elaine George was born around 1976 and brought up in ahousing commission(a form ofsocial housing) home inInala,south-west ofBrisbane,Queensland.Her mother is ofArakwaldescent, and her father (white) Australian of German ancestry.[1]
She was atomboywho liked sport, and her family, being poor, had never bought magazines. She was not allowed to wear make-up.[1]
Vogue cover
[edit]George was photographed by photographer Grant Good, who spotted her at a theme park,Dreamworld,when she was taking her sister Anita out as a treat. He was there with his partner, Diana Finke, and their children, just a few days after having had a conversation with then editor ofVogue Australia,Nancy Pilcher,about not having featured enough Australian models on the cover.[1]
Good sent test shots of her to Pilcher, who decided to put George on the cover of the September 1993 issue of the magazine. George was excited about being flown toSydneyfor the shoot, having never been out of the state nor flown in a plane.[1]
George was the first Aboriginal model to appear on the cover ofVogue.[2][3][4]
According to formerVogueeditorKirstie Clements,the magazine received criticism for the fact that the already light-skinned George was blown out on the cover appearing to have even lighter skin then she had.[5]
See also
[edit]- Samantha Harris,the second Aboriginal model to appear on the cover ofVogue
References
[edit]- ^abcdSinger, Melissa (25 September 2020)."The 'risky' Vogue cover that made history but almost never happened".The Sydney Morning Herald.Retrieved21 November2023.
- ^"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: Independence, art and politics".Archived fromthe originalon 4 April 2017.Retrieved7 May2010.
- ^Indigenous beauty is back in Vogue.Brisbane Times,23 April 2010.
- ^Voguecover featuring Elaine George,September 1993
- ^Clements, Kirstie (16 April 2014)."The kind of magazine cover Australia barely ever sees".Retrieved27 September2015.
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