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• MarilynC

  Waaaaaaaaaaay too Pretty Baby.

• http://heart-strutter.org Brigitte

  I don’t feel comfortable with children looking like this. :\ Let children be children… have them wear some overalls or somethin’.

• stylemekimberly

  I don’t think its about kids growing up to fast, by their will or our own, but the opposite. Its more about how we all wish for youth and glamour so much that these images are what we may as well be seeing in the mirror. I think they’re beautiful, not creepy at all, and are a good reminder that we can’t truly reverse time – and that’ s ok.

  stylemekimberly.com

• xobolaji

  i’ve been trying to submit a comment for the last 20 minutes. any advice?

• xobolaji

  still no luck. wow, this is frustrating. pls advise. thanks xobolaji [except it will take these notes. and when i submit my original comment, it says “duplicate, you’ve already said that.” except i haven’t since it’s still not published. thanks, xobolaji

• xobolaji

  what makes this spread seemingly less “creepy” is that the implication is that it’s done “tastefully,” and the girls are not positioned to appear in any way that is suggestive and/or inappropriate to the viewer. in other words, the girls are not made to look “cheap” or so-called “trashy” but rather they appear “sophisticated”–and how or why that shld be the motivation here is really beyond me…

  tom ford wld never put his name on something that doesn’t challenge our perceptions of creativity or what we think is “luxury/expensive” except the reality of the situation in these photographs is that these very young girls are acting on the very real tendency for a select few young girls’ desire to “play” at dress-up. it is quite evident that they ARE in fact children [with moms who "own" expensive clothing, no less!]. they are not 12 year olds, nor are they 18 year olds dressed up to look like 20-something year olds. so the creep factor is lessened by the very careful photography on display here. my girls, age 2&5 love to wear my high-heeled shoes & gauzy scarves in order to play dress up, but i absolutely draw the line at makeup & i’m too lazy/disinterested to “do” their hair…

  so yes, i suppose i’m a bit conflicted. back in the day when calvin klein exploited those young teenagers by shooting soft-core shots of them in suggestive poses reclining in 70s-inspired basement design replete with ugly wood-panelling, the public was outraged and the ads were swiftly removed. in my view, these pix do not induce the same level of outrage, nor do i get the jon benet ramsey/toddlers in tiara vibe at all.

  i can also say with 100% certainty that his spread will not likely create the kind of backlash that does the super creepy work of terry-i’ll-make-you-lose-your-lunch richardson. best, xobolaji

• ajjans

  I think if the girls were smiling and giggling it would look less creepy. Their expressions look a little too bored, jaded and/or come-hither for kids.

• http://youtube.com/mergatroidal Amy Soldier

  To the girls all this is only fantasy. Remind them that wads of twenties are rolling into their bank accounts and, let them think big.

  But, portray them adultish with white lab coats holding flasks and beakers of liquid as a researcher in a lab. Or in full racing leathers standing next to or riding a moto-cross motorbike on a dirt racetrack. I’ve seen twelve year old boys holding quality 28 gauge shot guns …, portray a young lady with a Mossberg over-and-under standing at station on the skeet range. You know, she stands with her upper-class adult friends at a skeet range.

  Urban girls this age have no other type of cosmopolitan identity that’s exciting or interesting to portray other than the pictures above and perhaps Ivanka Trump-type personages. I love Ivanka though there are few options for a young girl to be imagine herself focusing on as an object or theme of being an adult in fantasy. Country Girl can take many ideas and themes for a girl to play with in fantasy for a spell. Not somany fantasy options for the young cosmopolitan girl to play with.

  These thoughts appear narrow, on re-read. I post them regardless.

• bozekmm

  I like this. I don’t think it’s creepy or weird. Kids play dress up all the time. This is just a “high-fashion” dress up. I think that a mix of model faces and bubbly childish smiles would have been nice, though.

• lolita.

  i actually feel the way you do, and even more, what i do find REAL disturbing is those pageants held in the USA for little girls as young as 3. they wax their legs and arms, tweeze heir eyebrows, fix their teeth, make them go to tanning salons, put hair extensions. just to win a freaking trophie. those mother are monsters, because the little girls are being raised in that enviroment.
  these little kids, are just having fun. and doing what most of -we as young girls- wanted to do, feel glamoured and all dolled up. and look the way we wanted to look.
  i love this spread and i think it’s real. i dont know any little girl who wouldnt want this.

• FashionStudent

  People take things too seriously. I used to play dress up and pretend all the time as a kid, whats the difference. I thought the images were actually pretty great, just like a regular fashion editorial but switching out models for little kids. I don’t know if its intentional, but it I see a statement about fashion photography. Noone would look twice if these images were of the models we are used to seeing in ads, but those girls in normal ads that look so mature are really usually 12-16 and sometimes even younger. If sexualizing a 12 year old girl isn’t wrong then why are these images so wrong? I think it’s adorable and that little girl is a great model

• todos

  yeah thats the attitude that i lookin for

• Miguel

  A despicable push for pedophilia, from sick perverts. That’s the only way to describe it. Even the term “gift”. Cadeaux. That’s the kind of term a pedophile trash would use, to refer to a child.

• Anonymous

  We all have been little girl playing dress up with doll but this disturbing and it has viewed through the lenses of an adult and who has purposely provide something disturbing to look at. Those pictures are illustration and representation of children simulation and amusement for unstable minds.

  We all know that advertising is intended to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, ideas, or services. It includes the name of a product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer, to persuade a target market to purchase or to consume that particular brand. Advertising can also serve to communicate an idea to a large number of people in an attempt to convince them to take a certain action. From Wikipedia

  this is so wrong.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5J7QASI4W3TT5ALSUPL6LCFKGQ Jan

  its disturbing. you are only a kid once in your life., let them experience first what its like to be a kid.

• Georgia

  GMA did a story about these pics this morning and their presentation was titled to cause outrage.  Now, looking at these pictures on my own, they don’t bohter me that much…and yes, I am the mother of a 10 yr girl.  She would love to wear these clothes and have her hair and makeup on.  All advertising is fantasy.  these little girls are just trying on adult clothes.  I don’t see them as seductive.  Now it is very popular for young girls to go photo sessions and dress like teens.  This is teh same thing  In one vein, it is almost funny to see their bored littled faces…like they would rather be playing in shorts and tshirts instead of high fashion.   What bothers me much more are the nitwit young adults on MTV shows and reality shows dressing like prositutes and acting like they are idiots   same for the girls in the rap music videos .  they should know better, but realize their body is all the matters and sex sells.  sad.  very sad

• Stephen

  It’s just elaborate dress-up, I did this once or twice when i was 10 and i am a boy.   sick people do not need to see children in any kind of clothing to be turned on, in fact this look might have the reverse effect as it may remove some of the allure of youthful innocence, the sick people may prefer to see children in innocent childrens clothing. 

• http://www.cfcamerica.org Concerned

  Little girls and boys are beautiful.. when viewed as children. I believe these photos are created, the setting, the posing to elicit a reaction that is, … less than honorable.
  But then, in a country, these United States.. why on earth would anyone object to the sexualization of little girls and boys? This nation has kicked God out of it and totally rejected anything decent or moral… This country is so hypocritical.. complaining of presentations like this.. all the while unwilling to admit the American Society has become a society that values Self Love and doing what ever feels good… no mater any kind of morality.  Either there is a standard for morality or anything goes.. America has chosen ANYTHING GOES!

• Disgusted

  Elaborate dress  up? A fantasy? This is disgusting. As a parent a major role I feel I play in my childrens’ life is PROTECTOR. What do you need to protect children from? Well lets see, PEDOPHILES for one. Just this week  on AOL news there are 2 missing girls, and an 11 year old girls body found in a river. People, child exploitation is disgusting. Whether it comes in the form of  “Toddlers And Tiaras”, or “high fashion” photo spreads. The little girl is wearing a low cut dress like she’s Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate hudson, or JLo whos red carpet outfits all caused a stir. How can anyone in there right mind think this is appropriate? And supposedly there are topless and more suggestive photos that I am too disturbed to even look at. This is not cute, playfull or fun. This crosses the line of decency and promotes sexual exploitation of children. A problem that has gone on way too long. We as humans should be more evolved than this and protect the innocence of children. The fact that we are debating this and not demanding that the photographer and people in charge of French Vogue up for child pornography  is beyond my scope of understanding.

• Aira Savickaite

  That actually is disgusting to look.

  At first models was healthy
  looking, than humanity went for skinny look (anorexia look), teenagers and now
  after kids? What else will come up? That paedophilia is in fashion like in ancient
  grease?

• Anonymous

   Only a narrow minded religious fanatic (you perhaps?) would think a low cut dress on one of these little girls would cause a stir or that it’s inappropriate. Ever hear of dress up? Were you such a prude of a parent you refused your little girl the fun of dress up? 

  Unless you’re almost freaking blind, you’d notice none of these little girls have reached puberty.
  They have nothing to display!  It’s only your sick twisted mind that’s thinking they do.

  If you’re a parent as you state, (hard to believe) you’d know its not unusual for little girls to play in the sprinkler, or wade in the water at the beach with just a pair of shorts on, or in some cases, just a diaper. Only freaks would find that inappropriate & even worse, turn it into sexual exploitation.

   You need to take a good look in the mirror. You might be shocked at what’s staring back at you.

    

• http://twitter.com/bipolartweetwat Shineye Cargaci

  I don’t have a problem with the clothes…they are tasteful. The issue are these kids…they are trying to look sexy with their eyes, and that is just plain wrong!!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B2RIYS2P5MNVIFPXBCZUFHAREU B

  The difference between this and Toddlers & Tiara’s is what?

• Tno1pat

  It’s terrible!!!! Not Vogue at all!!!!! I can’t imagine all the child molesters looking at these pictures!!!!! These kids are in danger!!!!

• Hippiechick62

  To all those who feel this is fine, did you see the one or even hear about the one (cnn) where this little girl is naked from the waist up???? NO, this is NOT fine..

• Laura

  whats wrong with nudity. 

  the only thing wrong with it is our overly-sexualised culture making everything about sex. There’s more to nudity than sex.

• http://www.facebook.com/aliona.show Aliona Show

  This thing is bad only beacuse it makes a lot of people think it’s bad. Yeah, here’s a lot of ones who like it. They think it’s cute. But others are sure these pictures are provocative. And the second ones are right. Just read comments. This magazine just wanted us to talk about it…

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_77SFK7UCDMMFVRAZD2TLX6YS2I ashly

  I completely agree with ya on this…I think the pictures just show the girls doin what all little girls do at one point in time as they grow…the only differences here are they have a little more expensive clothing to choose from and at the end of the day their parents receive a check or however it’s done. They could’ve used a couple smiles here or there but then again it’s high end fashion so the pictures work and people should recognize them for what they are…ART in any sense period…

• Maria

  No, Ashly you are wrong. The photos dont show what little girls like. It shows what the (men-)society wants to see in them and convey a wrong image of women. The pics are not art, its only commerce and sexualization. Have you got children? Do you know how they behave when they disguise as princess, fairy or whatever? They dress up with mummy’s clothes, shoes, hat, with her jewels. They put on lipstick or eye make up in a very clumsy, playful and childish way. The most important fact is that children doing it their way.
  They should be seen as what they are: children but not little callgirls or perfect models. These girls had dozen of makeup artists, stylists, beauticans, designers and so on in order to became that perfect pictures. What do we see? A perfect little lolita with sexy pout, high heels, and cleavage down to bellybutton dressed like a callgirl. Even if the girl wanted to be dressed like a model,
  that would only show the perversity of our still accepted perception
  of women. They are dressed like men wants to see women: sexy, attractive, always seductive and willing to do everything in order to fullfill men’s desire and fantasy. It makes me sad and angry if even little girls get instilled with that injurance as
  a natural and irrevocable truth!

• Michelle Tunstall01

  Dont grow up to fast pretty girl <3x

• Yassaman Jahanbakhsh

  When little girls play dress up they do it for their own pleasure and in the privacy of their own home…. These pictures are meant to be seen by adults and are suppose to fullflill some kind of creepy little need. They didnt choose their own clothes or did do their own make up. If they had… they would look cute. These pictures have been thought out by adults and are meant to be seen by them…. that’s whats wrong with these pictures!!

• http://www.facebook.com/sully42 Peta O’Sullivan

  These girls have only just learnt to walk now they walk in stilettos? why not pump them full of saline, botox and suck out all that baby fat? Paint over any characteristics that may be forming in their faces that may define them as their own person.  While your at it strip them of any childrens toys, and send them off with some 50 year old pervert to become a young trophy wife, well done vogue, nice training!

• Trevwilkers1

  Um, sorry, the toothbrush photo is deliberately styled to titillate a pedophile who fantasizes about his own object in her mouth and residual mess around it. Wake up people.

• Ta

  Except that that is normal in many European countries where they are more comfortable with children being children and running around half dressed. Just because it is frowned upon in the US doesn’t make it wrong

• Amber Lucas

  I couldn’t disagree with you more. You are actually contradicting yourself in your own argument. what makes you think that these little girls in this editorial have not been waxed, plucked, spray tanned, had their hair straightened, curled, colored, and had extensions added?! NO one’s eyebrows naturally have the arch that these little girls are sporting here: they were plucked/waxed. To say that these children aren’t competing for a trophy is complete ignorance. You are looking at the very trophy now: it’s a spread in French Vogue. 
  Whether or not these little girls had fun is not the issue at hand. Just because a child finds an activity “fun” doesn’t make it appropriate. Just because a child finds something “fun” doesn’t mean they are out of harms way, or not endangering themselves. A ten year old is not an adult. They cannot make adult choices, and they cannot fully comprehend the consequences of their actions; this is why they need parental guidance.
  To say that this is what little girls do on their own – playing dress up and applying their mothers makeup, is still not putting this editorial on the same level. Those little girls are not put in a nationally known magazine, sharing space in a book that also features topless women, anti-aging ads, and dominatrix themed Dolce & Gabanna spreads. These girls are, and it’s wrong.

• Say “NO” to pedophiles!

  I completely agree!  These photos are begging for pedophiles to look at kids in a sexual way and this magazine is telling them that it’s ok!  We need to protect our children not flaunt them in this manner, it’s harmful for these little girls and other children as well.  Very disturbing!!!

• Tchernish

  She is a little girl, only girl, not a woman. She is playing, but her parents earn money…. It’s not good.  

• miscnyc

  YES true. That photo is horrifying.

• lockedandloaded

  I don’t like these photos at all!!! Trying to make little girls look like grown women is almost like being the pedophile yourself!!! Who thinks these things up?? if its a man i am very worried for what is happening if its a woman I’m more worried for what has already happened. Why make little girls want to be sexy?!!! Do you not think they look good the way they are? One way or another that’s the message you are sending. so you let these girls put their selves out there to be manipulated and molested and then turn around and say i never thought something like this would happen! Please!!! Its one thing to put little girls in cute little dresses for a pageant but don’t put them in silk and say show a little shoulder now darling!!!!!!! and if you think I’m taking this out of proportion you just look around you if you don’t see a problem with it just  look a little harder now darling!!!! believe me when your turning your head for a min someone else is turning theirs too!!! you ppl better get a clue!!! in today world their is a lot of sick people!!! what you think is innocent and cute might just be some sick thrill for someone else!!!! and thats the harsh truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Bigconanman

  This coming from a man with a 12 yr old daughter.  You don’t see the hypocrisy here?  We live in a society, were we as a nation get outraged over pedophilia, and the men that are pedophiles right?  Yet, at the same time, here is a magazine putting up pics of young girls.  You don’t see it?  How can we be outraged about pedophilia, yet put these pics up for everyone to see.  This is not only condoning it, but encouraging it even more.  These young girls are made to look sexy and made to look like women.  Yet, we bash men for liking them.  Either its wrong to be a pedophile or its not.  If its not, you can’t be putting pics of this nature in magazines, where anyone can view them.

• k0wc0w

  I think they are beautiful! I don’t look at them in a sexual way, and I don’t think anybody does, but rather just see their beauty. Everybody needs to relax, this is France, not the US…

• Scarlett

  these photos are disgusting, sick!

• Rob

  Idk they just seem artsy to me. Am I supposed to find sexual?? I thought kids always wanted to play dress up, dress like grown ups.