Miranda Kerr’s Naked ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ Australia Cover Banned from Supermarkets
Lewd? Photo: Steven Chee for Harper’s Bazaar Australia
Miranda Kerr’s naked ambitions aren’t going over so well in her native Australia.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald (via The Guardian), the latest cover of Harper’s Bazaar Australia—which features the former Victoria’s Secret Angel posing completely nude, apart from some Louboutins—has been banned from Aussie grocery store Coles. The move was made in an effort to shield the innocent eyes of children from being tainted by the sight of a bare female figure.
Said a Coles spokesperson, “In response to feedback from our customers, many of whom shop with their children, we removed the magazine from sale earlier this week.” WWD reports that approximately 3,000 copies of the January/February 2016 issue were removed from Coles’s 776 locations throughout Australia.
Bazaar’s editor-in-chief Kellie Hush says she’s “disappointed” in Coles’s decision to nix the mag.
“The cover is a beautiful artistic image taken by one of Australia’s best photographer’s Steven Chee and I stand by that,” she tells the Herald. “I have had so much positive feedback from around the globe, it is a shame Coles does not also recognise the artistic integrity of this image. As Gloria Steinem says: ‘The human body is not obscene.’”
Then again, there’s no such thing as bad press. As Hush tells WWD, “I’m the editor of a niche luxury fashion magazine and I’ve just had ABC Radio on [calling me]—I don’t think Harper’s Bazaar Australia has ever been talked about on the ABC.” Every cloud…
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