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Vogue editor slammed over homeless photo

Vogue's style editor-at-large has come under fire after posting a photo on Instagram of what appears to be a homeless woman in Paris reading the magazine.

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Vogue style editor-at-large Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis (nicknamed TNT) has faced a massive backlash over this picture of a homeless person posted on instagram.

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In Paris for fashion week, she decided to post on Instagram what appears to be a homeless person reading Vogue.

"Paris is full of surprises...and @voguemagazine readers in unexpected places," she is captioned the Instagram post.

The post has since been deleted.

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After an outcry from her follower, she defended the post, commenting: "Why cruel? The person to me is as dignified as anyone else!"

 


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