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David Patrick Columbia Thinks All of Those Fashion People Look Alike

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SOCIAL DISGRACE Wrongly identified De la Renta, Roberts
Given the frequency with which people of color appear in the "society" pages of fancy magazines, you'd think extra attention would be paid to get their names and identities right. Not the case in this month's edition of Quest magazine, in which bozo society photographer David Patrick Columbia manages to misidentify both of the black people he features—the only two on the page, mind you.

The first one, Moises de la Renée, is actually Moises de la Renta, the 25-year-old adopted kid of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. (Making matters worse is that Columbia actually managed to ID Oscar correctly further down the page.) In the bottom row, Columbia also confuses gay Vanity Fair fashion and style director Michael Roberts with gay former Vibe editor-in-chief Emil Welbekin.

To his credit, he did get cosmetics heir Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer's name right.

By Neel Shah   04/10/08 5:00 PM
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