Posted on 02/11/2019 10:59:21 AM PST by TigerClaws
Katy Perry's shoe that is under scrutiny for resembling blackface is about to be yanked ... TMZ has learned.
Katy's got a whole shoe line for sale at retailers like Dillard's and Walmart -- and a couple of her designs feature what looks similar to blackface ... the "Rue Face Slip On Loafers" and its high-heeled counterpart, "Ora Face Block Heel Sandal."
The "face" shoes have two eyes, a nose and red lips on them, and they come in two different colors ... black and beige. The black one is problematic, because it looks a lot like classic blackface makeup, which the fashion world does not seem to recognize time and again.
The "face" heeled sandals are also problematic ... and Katy's catching major heat for having the shoes on store shelves. Even singer Masika Kalysha is calling for Katy to answer for this, saying on social media ... "So we just gonna let Katy Perry slide?"
Sources connected to Katy tell us these specific shoes are just part of an entire line of shoes she's designed and released ... and they were never intended to be offensive. However, we're told, "In order to be respectful and sensitive the team is in the process of pulling the shoes."
Pretty soon blacks will be like Mohammed—with no images permitted anywhere.
Maybe it’s a marketing ploy. The shoe in either color is ugly as heck. So create a PR buzz, watch the shoes fly off the shelves... and the sell ones that you end up recalling on Ebay for twice the price.
They should pull Katy Perry from the airwaves........................
I didn’t like licorice even as a kid....................
OMG we are going to drive ANYTHiNG resembling a black persons face driven right out existence. How is this progress? Only white faces will be allowed on products from now on.
They are shoes!
Brown Shoes don’t make it.
The beige one isn’t problematic?
I didn’t even know she is a cobbler. So she uses that big heavy sewing machine to stitch up the leather sole to the upper shoe.... ha ha ha She wouldn’t have a clue how to do anything like that. Adds her name to a product for a big paycheck. Useful Idiot...
Left with a huge inventory the unsalable shoes will be donated to the people of some poor African nation.
I have been bringing up that WHITE CHICKS movie for a few weeks. People seem to have forgotten about that movie....
#AllANukkaNeeds.
Those should be banned because they are hands down the ugliest shoes ever made.
We are watching a “nervous breakdown” if the Dems...it’s HILARIOUS, but kinda sad...and NEEDED!!! By 2020, the Dems s/b exhausted.
Katy Perry is racist.
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