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Fashion Institute apologizes: Accessories did not intend 'to make a statement about race'
The Hill ^ | 02 20 2020 | John Bowden

Posted on 02/20/2020 8:14:51 AM PST by yesthatjallen

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has apologized after a fashion show held by graduating students featured accessories meant to depict exaggerated facial features that at least one model said were racist.

Critics including one model at the show, Amy Lefévre, said that accessories handed out to models at the school's Feb. 7 show mimicked historically offensive caricatures of black people, and should not have been handed out to models, some of whom wore the accessories onstage.

“I stood there almost ready to break down, telling the staff that I felt incredibly uncomfortable with having to wear these pieces and that they were clearly racist,” Lefévre, who is black, told the New York Post in an interview. “I have never felt like that in my life.”

Dr. Joyce Brown, the school's president, wrote in an open letter that the school will "be taking several steps" to address concerns about the show.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fashion; fit; michelleobama; monkey; racism
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1 posted on 02/20/2020 8:14:51 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Obama!


2 posted on 02/20/2020 8:16:58 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Nothing racist there................

4 posted on 02/20/2020 8:18:48 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just about every TV show, movie, or advertisement makes a statement on race and it is basically, White bad, every other race good.


5 posted on 02/20/2020 8:18:52 AM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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If I were a fashion designer, I’d make all the models wear a paper bag over their heads, with a little screen to see out of.

It’s about MY CLOTHING, NOT THE MODELS................and the models would be much, much cheaper, too..............


6 posted on 02/20/2020 8:21:11 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

Whether or not the “fashion accessories” were racist, they definitely were pretentious BS.


7 posted on 02/20/2020 8:21:25 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: econjack

What is Mick Jagger doing there?


8 posted on 02/20/2020 8:21:38 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: yesthatjallen

How could anyone possibly think that would not be offensive? Better yet, why would anyone include those accessories that would quite reasonably detract from the fashion you are showing off?


9 posted on 02/20/2020 8:24:07 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: grobdriver

HOW DARE THEY mock moochie. Of course it was meant to be that. Typical liberal gaggle showing their true ‘color’. Who was the tone deaf assclown that decided that would be so ‘sheeshee’?


10 posted on 02/20/2020 8:24:27 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

Oh, like a burqua head peice?


11 posted on 02/20/2020 8:25:10 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: econjack

Wait...aren’t those just oversized Mr. Potato Head parts?


12 posted on 02/20/2020 8:27:03 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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Yeah, something like that. I would want the customers to see MY MERCHANDISE, NOT THE DUMMY WEARING IT................


13 posted on 02/20/2020 8:30:16 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: hellinahandcart

Hmmmm. I’ve heard of and actually seen ‘furries’ but, ‘veggies’ would be a new one to me. LOL!


14 posted on 02/20/2020 8:45:33 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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“It does not appear that the original intent of the design, the use of accessories or the creative direction of the show was to make a statement about race; however, it is now glaringly obvious that has been the outcome,”

It is glaringly obvious that nearly anything will be perceived as about race.

15 posted on 02/20/2020 8:49:43 AM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: yesthatjallen

If you’re White, you can’t win. If you simply exist, without adopting a particular costume, you’re racist. If you speak, without saying anything bad about anyone, you’re racist. If you think, without thinking any mean thoughts, you’re racist. If you put on a blackface, you’re racist. If you don’t put on a blackface, you’re racist.


16 posted on 02/20/2020 8:51:07 AM PST by I want the USA back (Journalists Take Bits of Reality and Slot them into the Existing Script. -Friedman.)
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“Go Big or Go Home”?


18 posted on 02/20/2020 9:12:40 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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I thought they were going for the Sophia Hadjipanteli look, so I’m not sure if that moves my window from racism to objectivism or some other ism I’m not sure of.

And nope, not posting photos. ;)


19 posted on 02/20/2020 9:46:42 AM PST by Retrofitted
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To: Retrofitted

Hirsutophobic?


20 posted on 02/20/2020 9:58:17 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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