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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Obama!
Nothing racist there................
Just about every TV show, movie, or advertisement makes a statement on race and it is basically, White bad, every other race good.
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..............
Whether or not the “fashion accessories” were racist, they definitely were pretentious BS.
What is Mick Jagger doing there?
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?
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’?
Oh, like a burqua head peice?
Wait...aren’t those just oversized Mr. Potato Head parts?
Yeah, something like that. I would want the customers to see MY MERCHANDISE, NOT THE DUMMY WEARING IT................
Hmmmm. I’ve heard of and actually seen ‘furries’ but, ‘veggies’ would be a new one to me. LOL!
It is glaringly obvious that nearly anything will be perceived as about race.
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.
“Go Big or Go Home”?
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. ;)
Hirsutophobic?
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