Vogue has been accused of racism for running a photoshoot featuring model Karlie Kloss as a Japanese geisha.

The row comes days after the fashion magazine came under fire for allegedly manipulating the cover of its latest issue to make a plus size model look thinner.

Vogue is celebrating the diversity of "the modern American woman" in the March edition, featuring models of different ethnicities, skin tones and body types.

With the cover featuring Chinese model Liu Wen, social media users are questioning why an Asian model wasn't used for the Japanese inspired spread inside the magazine.

One photo features Kloss alongside a sumo wrestler and another sees the geisha-dressed model walking down the stairs of a tea house.

"Apparently nobody sent the 'yellow face is in fact racism' memo to Vogue," one user wrote on Twitter.