ID magazine, the pink-haired teenager – who was 16 when the shoot took place – can be seen posing without a top, and his trousers by his ankles.
To promote his burgeoning music career.While I’m hardly the harbinger of what is high style or fashionable these days (the fact I say ‘high style’ probably gives that away), I can understand the uproar to the photographs.
Many asked how it was allowed to happen, while others suggested we’d be spitting chips if it was a 16-year-old famous daughter doing the same – and you only need to remember the criticism and bullying lobbed at Kendall Jenner when a leaked shoot of her modelling nude on a beach, at the age of 22, to know that’s true.The criticism of Cruz’s shoot is all very valid, and perhaps a piece for a different time, but as people shared their varied thoughts on the teenager looking incredibly ‘fashion’ in the pages of a glossy, complete with grills, I got to thinking: are these kids simply being set up to fail?This isn’t the first time we’ve witnessed how apparently brilliant it is being the kid of a Beckham, as Brooklyn Beckham overtook photographers with years of training and experience to shoot lucrative commercial campaigns and magazine spreads.
We were like, ‘OK, sure, do your thing, Lil Becks, good for you.’We’re now currently gazing on as he makes his foray into TV cookery, flexing his chef muscles by whipping up such things as steak sarnies and decadent pastas, with a tonne of money backing his latest endeavour, a TV show, because, well, he’s a Beckham.
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