See The Major Fashion Deal These 2 Black Gay Dads Just Scored

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    See The Major Fashion Deal These 2 Black Gay Dads Just Scored

    Acne Studios just introduced a new collection featuring Instagram's favorite dads Kordale and Kaleb!

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    Jonny Johansson, Acne's creative director, commented about the campaign, saying, “I have been thinking about families for a long time. Since Acne Studios started as a collective, we would see each other as a family back in the days. I therefore wanted to portray households of today, in all constellations — this is how we found Kordale and Kaleb. How does the face motif fit into all of this? Well it’s just an ordinary Swedish citizen. Not too happy, not too sad, but somewhere in between. Lagom in Swedish. Like me.”

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    Acne used their new campaign to depict how emoticons are able to transcend language. Acne celebrates the spirit of inclusivity in the new campaign dedicated to the face motif collection, which features Atlanta-based couple Kordale Lewis and Kaleb Anthony and their four children, Desmiray (10 years old), Maliyah (9), Kordale Jr. (8) and Kaleb Jr. (6 months).

    Inez and Vinoodh photographed the family on location in New York City while the family was there on vacation. If for some reason you don’t know these popular dads, Kordale and Kaleb first came to popular awareness as the result of a 2014 Instagram post when they photographed the start of a typical day in their household.



    We commend Acne for this progressive campaign, which highlights a new normal and definition of family. Congratulations to Kordale and Kaleb's family for being selected as the face of this new campaign!

    A limited edition, free publication designed by M/M (Paris) featuring an in-depth interview with Kordale and Kaleb will be available in select Acne Studios stores worldwide from mid-August and featured on Acne's website. The collection will be available for sale on August 17. Be sure to check it out!

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    my question is yeh, why does their shirts have to be open in this family picture?
     
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    To make it worse, their shirts aren't "open." They are purposely pulled up over their heads to sexily show off their torsos, tatts and abs while surrounded by their children...
     
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    oh my days, I didn't even notice that sh*t. Here I was thinking they were decent and just had them unbutton.
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    For a family picture, they did not really have to do it BUT I still commend them for being endorsed! *drops one of Clue's bombs for Kordale and Kaleb dammit*
     
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    Uh...naw. i’m gonna give them and the photographer a pass. I think that’s what you’re culturally and psychologically bringing to the pic, not the shoot itself. As someone in law enforcement who routinely reviews and processes court records for evil creeps that violate kids AND an erstwhile artist myself, i don’t see anything tasteless or untoward about this. I’m sure Tyson Beckford, who has kids, has been stunningly unshirted at times around his own brood. Sometimes we keep bringing bouqie black church values and white puritanical conservative body issues into places they ought not be...

    And their tykes are all cute as a button already got that “fashion on point” gleam in their eyes. Little man looks like John Lewis lol...

    The REAL crime is some of those designs on Acne’s website. Looks like stuff this dude, also with gay open shirt issues, would wear
     
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    Agree with @Champagne_Papi and @Nick Delmacy . First thing I thought was why did they have to sexualize this with the kids there? We know it is sexualized, we see models wearing clothes all the time without the shirts being open. How many family pictures do you see where the guy/guys/father/fathers have a shirt open when nobody else does? Except for maybe swimwear? There was no reason to do it but sexualization. Does not mean they are molesters, just means the fashion industry is jacked up and will sexualize anything?

    Would they have done this if the guys had pot bellies? I doubt it. It is not super creepy or anything, just a little...off...and reflects more on the fashion industry than anything else. I am sure the family just did as was directed.

    *cue @Rico's antagonistic, bombastic(but lovable)self to come in and 'enlighten us all' LOL.
     
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    Don’t get your Victorian panties in a bunch, dear....

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    I swear at times some of y’all round here are no different than Rick Santorum or the Moral Majority. And you’re old enough to remember Brooke Shields and “Pretty Baby” and th whole “nothing between me and my jeans” campaign. This isn’t even close to that degree of fashion/media sexualization of a minor.

    I suppose U2 was peddling incest with this father son shirtless portrait on the cover of their last album?

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    Attention, fashionistas, now hear this: please make sure your black gay families in advertising only conform to vanilla, bourgeoisie, cisgender stereotypes that Mitt Romney and bitter childless gay men would approve of. That is all...

     
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    Damn @Rico. Me and you could definitely hang, because I'm getting a sense we think a lot a like. Every reply about the thread so far started with "why they shirt open tho? Oooh they shirt pulled aside on a family picture? Its a sexualized family picture!". GEEZUS :snoop:

    No one could talk about the positive side first by just commending a presumably happy gay couple with kids sharing their family and style in a beautiful fashion editorial? Something we rarely see, if ever. ESPECIALLY men of color?

    I don't know. To each is own guys. If your first reaction is why their shirts are off, umm ok. I sometimes feel very out of place on this site because sometimes the opinions stated on here seem very prudish.

    What you state @Rico about the U2 reference I was thinking in a similar way. I have seen other family fashion photos that displayed something similar to this with the mother or father selling a bit of sex as well as family life. Definitely isn't the first time as far as that aspect.

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    I doubt it too, as well as Im GLAD they didn't! I know I would rather see two sexy ass fathers than some pot belly shit. In the end, I think the spread is nice and I am very happy for them in representing the LGBT community, a family unit, & committed relationship while looking DAMN good doing it.
     
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    BTW, that damn Kaleb!!!! :banderas:

    Damn, Damn, Damn!!! I mean both men are attractive. But Kaleb (the one with the full beard) is freakin GORGEOUS. He has a perfect face to me.
     
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    I think it looks nice. What if the one with his shirt open didn't have abs and a belly instead? They all look happy.
     
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    I don't think it makes them molesters, I just think its typical gay marketing/propaganda imagery. Especially for Black gays...I'm half surprised that they didn't also lube them up with baby oil.

    Outside of that, I'm happy these two have reconciled since their messy breakup that was aired out publicly through social media: [QUESTION] Single Black Gay Men: Why Do You Even WANT To Be In A Relationship?!
     
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    ...you can't even be serious right now
     
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    And there's nothing special or "positive"... Black gay niggas are fathers all time man, they've been doing that shit for years, this ain't new...these two just put it on Instagram is all. & I don't see the big deal about them and their story...you're a fucking father, you're supposed to take care of your kids. I'm not finna clap for a fish because it's swimming.

    Maybe it's just me yeh and I've been around Black fathers who take care of their children that this whole "Black fathers are deadbeats" propaganda shit that the media plasters never fazed me because that's not the majority of the reality I've experienced.


    & no ones trying to condemn them to an
    ecclesiastical character... Sure fathers are shirtless around their children but they're not going to go to the JCPenny Picture Studio and take pictures with their children whilst they're shirtless.
     
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    Oh he don't look good to you? umm ok. :stopit:
     
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    Well thanks for clearing that up and setting the record straight. You're such a bundle of positive energy. What a delight...
     
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    I kinda agree with @Champagne_Papi on this one...Do you know their story, the dude Kordale got a girl pregnant THREE TIMES knowing he was gay and didn't tell her. He doesn't need a modeling contract just for being a father like it was a public service he provided, that nikka is SUPPOSED to be their father, regardless of his sexuality.

    Maybe I would have more warm feelings for these two dudes if they didn't have the typical gay messy social media breakup awhile ago. I'm very anti-gaylebrity, these dudes got viral off that IG photo and have been milking it and their children ever since, TBH.
     
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    These are 2 gay mofos who realized that their pockets/image/____ are stronger together, than apart.

    That social media temp war was enough for me to not take them seriously at all
     
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    Right. I'm not mad at their "success" but let's not pretend they are beyond criticism and are anything more than Kardashians of the Black Gay Community: famous for no specific talent.
     
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    Absolutely. No one is above reproach.

    Its just amazing to me at times that many people are quick to criticize and find whats wrong with a picture or person FIRST, as oppose saying something nice. Its all good of course tho, everybody's different.
     
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    The Street Committee said that he was.... accessible... at one point so... You could get your chance.

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    Word? :sass2:

    LOL, just kidding. Nah not my style going in from the jump knowingly fuckin a married dude. Maybe they in an open relationship tho. If thats the word on the street. I hear open relationships are really popular these days.

    That shit would be crazy to be in an open relationship with kids and shit. To me, it seems like an open relationship should only be considered if its only the two of you and no kids involved, IMO.
     
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    ...we will call anyone light skin with that light skin squint good looking
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    Thank you, I've been trying to tell that exact thing to @DreG but he's just too far gone in the darkness that my light cannot reach him. Please, spread the word to him yeh...
     
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    ...it wasn't criticism yeh, it was just an observation.
     
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    'Its a sexualized family picture!". GEEZ'


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    'I know I would rather see two sexy ass fathers '

    'while looking DAMN good doing it'

    Thank you for proving the point by responding to the shirtless father in a sexualized way! Exactly as was intended.

    Prudery is not the same as having common sense. And the Bono equivalency is a false one-you can tell that pic was not meant to provoke a 'damn he sexy' response, but this one with these two guys was obviously intended to get just that 'sexy' response by the way it was done! And just noticing it and pointing it out does not mean one is a prude-it just mean one noticed that the pic was a tad sexualized.

    The Pretty Baby/Brooke jeans ads are not equivalent either-she wasn't posting in those jeans surrounded by her family and starring in that pic as an underage prostitute with her real family members as costars.

    Step up ya game @Rico! Seriously though, I don't think it was 'bitterness' and 'prudery'-besides what was mentioned it was nice and all. But we can't ignore that gay men are being sexualized when they should not be-to me it rings of the whole'gay guys are just about sex' and takes AWAY from the pics-especially given the setting and how unlikely it would be to have a simialar setting-yes a similar setting of a family relaxing(and not a Bono art photo or risque cinema ala Brooke circa 40 years ago)-involving a straight couple. Would we have one pic with the father with his shirt off/open and then one with the mother with her shirt off/open...I mean really....look at the context of the photoshoot and what it was supposed to convey.

    new normal and a new definition of family? With two black gay men heading a household...sure...with them being sexualized why they do it-not so much.
     
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    If K&K are to be believed about what they've said in interviews, they're often shirtless with front of their kids (like a lot men),and I don't want to make the same commotion people made against them when their picture first went viral.

    The pics look fine,and I like the family angle,but I think with the knowledge that lgbt-targeted advertisements typically show skin,a decision should have been made to go in a different direction.They obviously love showing off their bodies,but I think this is one occasion where that could've been scaled back.It seems like they're half promoting their family,and half trying to get heir foot in the door for modeling.


    TLDR good intentions,nice pictures,modify the execution.
     
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    Didn't expect to see so many negative reactions to this. I don't think the photos are sexualized at all. Like relax its not that serious but these days its not a topic if there isn't anything to complain about. I think I read a comment about why is this even news, its nothing new. Well I don't know where yall are located but seeing a black gay family shoot is not the norm around here, so its dope to see. Maybe sexualized needs to be redefined because its annoying to keep seeing the bare human body automatically relate to sex instead of just what it is. It would be one thing if both dads were naked cuddled in the bed kissing. Another thing yall need to stop acting like sexualizing the gay community is different or worse than hetero media (which most are numb to). If your going to tackle sexualizing stuff do it on all platforms if it bothers you that much. All I'm trying to say is I think there are bigger issues to complain about than sexualization in this community.
     
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