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Feb 22, 2019 · Fashion has had a rough few months of controversial designs, beginning in December, when Prada pulled its Otto animal charm from stores after customers claimed its design resembled blackface.
- Maeve Mcdermott
Feb 28, 2019 · In fact, it was one of many recent fashion items that had featured blackface, a highly-offensive and racially-insensitive trope with a long, complicated history. Dating back to the 1800s, blackface is a type of theatrical makeup that was once used by white performers to portray caricatures of Black people.
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Feb 13, 2019 · In 1985, celebrated African-American designer Patrick Kelly sent a model down the runway in a white dress printed with a cartoon image of a black face, with large eyes and smiling red lips, and...
Feb 18, 2019 · “I am a Black man before I am a brand,” Dapper Dan, the beloved designer and tailor, declared on Instagram last week after the revelation of an $890 Gucci knit top that resembled blackface,...
Feb 13, 2019 · Some fashion brands, including Prada, have had to recall some product lines because they evoked racist imagery. Just last week, Gucci recalled a turtleneck balaclava sweater that resembled...
- Hafsa Quraishi
Feb 8, 2019 · Gucci blackface: Luxury fashion designers miss mark with consumers, evoke racist imagery in designs - CBS News. Gucci and Prada aim for outrageousness, instead they get outrage. By Megan Cerullo....
Feb 2, 2019 · CNN — It’s been nearly 200 years since white performers first started painting their faces black to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows across the United States. It was racist and offensive...
