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Blackface? Never In Style

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | by J. Baker

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Having just returned from Madrid, I was pretty wistful when I heard that I would miss their S/S 2010 fashion week this week. Looking at the latest collection from Carlos Diez, I’m pretty happy that I wasn’t there, since this brown girl got pretty worked up over his runway show—it’s not just the clothes that are bad. I’m all for creativity in fashion, but blackface is never a good idea, even if you didn’t mean it to be, even if the models strangely remind me of George Hamilton, still not a good idea. The real question for me is why he would ever think this was ok? Beyond distasteful, the collection itself is a bad “Brady Bunch” trip on fabric. I wonder if he ever plans on showing in New York? We prefer our faces their natural color and hairpieces on our heads, not t-shirts. Thoughts ladies?

More Madrid & India/Lakme fashion week to come!

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5 Responses to “Blackface? Never In Style”

  1. ANDEAN
    September 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST! FROM THE HEAD DOWN TO THE TOE….NOT TO MENTION THE NEGLIGENT USE OF BLACK FACE- BE INTENTIONAL OR NOT- TISK TISK CARLOS DIAZ >:{

  2. cruziiie
    September 24th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    WOWWWWWWWW
    that is all I will say!

  3. Sunna
    October 16th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Most Europeans really are not aware that this could be offensive to anyone. Please relax.
    The collection is not that bad either.

  4. bowleserised
    October 17th, 2009 at 3:19 am

    “Most Europeans really are not aware that this could be offensive to anyone.”

    That is a ridiculous and entirely untrue statement. You are very uninformed.

  5. MS. FABULOUS
    October 29th, 2009 at 1:53 am

    This is irritating and any designer who does that deserves to be boycotted.

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