It seems that Anna Wintour is not a big fan of twerking.
The formidable Vogue editor-in-chief has taken Miley Cyrus off the cover of the December issue of Vogue - even though a photoshoot with Cyrus has already been completed. In response, gossip website Jezebel commented that ''diddling yourself with a foam finger is apparently off-brand''.
Cyrus's controversial performance with Robin Thicke at the MTV Video Music Awards made world headlines, sparking a huge furore about the 20-year-old's risque dance moves.
It seems Wintour - immortalised by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada -was seriously unimpressed.
''Anna found the whole thing distasteful. She decided, based on Miley's performance, to take the cover in a different direction," The MailOnline quoted a source as saying.
The duet with Thicke featured Cyus gyrating against the R&B singer and using a foam finger in a sexually suggestive way.
Bang Showbiz reports that the former Hannah Montana star attracted ''an avalanche of criticism on social media and from watching celebrities".
One Direction star Harry Styles described Cyrus's twerking as ''quite inappropriate".
He added: ''Especially for the age groups that it's aimed at. I think it's, you know, promoting promiscuity."
Eighties pop star Cyndi Lauper said: ''That was girl gone wild. So sad, so sad. I just felt like that was so beneath her and raunchy, really raunchy. It wasn't even art."
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