Vogue featuring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris leaked to an extremely critical reception.
Captured by Tyler Mitchell who made history as the first Black photographer to shoot a
Vogue cover in 2018 the image shows Harris against a sumptuous background of pink and green, the color of her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She s dressed in a Donald Deal jacket, tapered pants, Converse shoes, with a string of pearls around her neck. The image radiates the kind of painfully studied casualness politicians give off, as if Harris stepped into a ready-made set fresh off the campaign trail.
The unexpected uproar concerned the fact that Harris s clothes and positioning did not quite match the tenor of the occasion of her being the first Black-American, first South Asian-American, first woman elected to the Vice Presidency.