Published: August 29, A Spanish magazine cover depicting Michelle Obama as a black slave with one breast exposed has some people crying foul. It was taken from the "Famous Nudes" series by artist Karine Percheron-Daniels, who describes her work as trying "to offer an alternative unexpected reality to allow the viewer to re-examine his unique subjective experience and general understanding and view the world and people in a different way. This person is none other than his wife Michelle, who stars in the cover of the magazine this week," reads the description as roughly translated from Spanish. It continues, "To find out how Michelle has managed to seduce the American people, the journalist Paul Scarpellini details the secrets of women who not only won the heart of Barack Obama. But a drawing of Michelle Obama topless on the cover of Fuera de Serie is plain old tasteless," wrote Jessica Wakeman.
Some say the New York Post went too far. The Sunday cover of the newspaper, which had endorsed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the New York primary, featured a controversial image of his wife. Her left hand strategically covered her nether regions, and a Post art director had the decency to blur out her nipples. Additional nude photos were featured inside the publication. The images of a thenyear-old Melania were taken in New York in and featured in Max magazine, a now-shuttered French publication. The cover is trashy.
Does Michelle Obama's 'nude' dress scandal highlight fashion's racial bias?
Frock controversy fails to spoil the First Lady's second state dinner. Stunning: But commentators were worried about what colour they should call Michelle Obama's dress. Michelle Obama has once more sent the fashion world into a flurry, but this time it's not about her super-toned arms or her penchant for American brand J crew.
In fashion, it's a common description of the shade a little darker than champagne, lighter than sand and perhaps with a hint of blush or peach. Nude or champagne? Michelle Obama's gown sets off a colour controversy. But when Michelle Obama wore, in the words of designer Naeem Khan, a "sterling-silver sequin, abstract floral, nude strapless gown" to a state dinner at the White House - and it was reported as such - that sparked questions about the definition of nude and its relation, if any, to the wearer's skin colour.