Gabourey Sidibe appears in Harper’s Bazaar‘s “Singular Beauties” fashion portfolio, which was styled by Global Fashion Director Carine Roitfeld. The spread is meant to pay homage to the diversity of women. And Gabourey appears along with Dakota Fanning, Scarlett Johansson, and other women who supposedly don’t fit within traditional beauty ideals (think blonde, blue-eyed, and white), like models China Machado, Carmen Dell’Orefice, Liya Kebede, and Karen Elson. While this is an admirable cause for Bazaar to take up, it seems Roitfeld’s styling of Gabourey fell rather flat. Next to the other fashionably-clad “Singular Beauties,” Gabourey looks like a clown. Or at the very best, a woman who was caught in the rain and draped her shawl over her head to protect her ‘do. You would think that if Roitfeld were going to take on the task of paying homage to the diversity of women, that she’d be able to dress women of any size without making them look ridiculous.
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