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The Lows of Fashion: Playful Racist Misogyny on MLK’s Day
By: Nyla Nation C2017
It is easy for progress to be
overshadowed by shortcomings.
With Erykah Badu as the new face of
Givenchy for its Spring-Summer 2014
line and Rihanna the face of Balmain
Spring 2014 this industry has taken
huge steps to change this inescapable
issue.
However, also this year it is safe
to say racism is still alive, even as the
fashion industry attempts to diversify.
Just on the heels of the weekend
that the nation stopped to celebrate
Martin Luther King Jr.’s mantras of
equality and civil rights, a Russian
fashion blog, Buro 24/7, released an
article that did a good job of negating
and voiding all that Dr. King fought for.
A picture of calm Russian socialite
Dasha Zhukova seated atop a black
woman accompanied the article about
Zhukova. The picture gained more
controversy than the article as it sent
out a racist and misogynistic message
of white supremacy.
Zhukova, Editor-in-Chief of Garage
magazine, sat on a black “dummy
doll” that is suggestively naked with
exception of panties, knee-high boots,
elbow length gloves,
and a garter belt. The
black woman is on the
floor, the garter belt
bonding her thighs to her
chest, putting her into
compromising slave-like
position.
The image of this
hyper-sexualized black
woman is nothing new.
This image of black
people seen as less than
human is not new either. Due to the
article’s immediate feedback from
fervently disgusted readers, the editor
quickly issued an apology and deleted
the picture from her Instagram.
On January 15, just five days
before Zhukova’s article went
viral, Belgian Designer Walter Van
Beirendonck had his models wear
Native American headdresses that had
“Stop Racism”, in Russian
and English, painted on
them during his Fall 2014
show. It is startling how
another person in the
same industry, from the
same place, could be so
racially insensitive.
African-American
models Naomi Campbell,
Joan Smalls, and Jourdan
Dunn have each made
several pleas over the
past six months to end this silent but
crippling stigma put on blacks in the
industry. But when will it end?
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