Fashion News: Blackface C'est tres faux pas! (sorry i couldn't get the accents on this)

So it come every year. Halloween. *le sigh* it's interesting the levels of disrespect and trying to costume a culture. I am more than confidence in this skin, with this hair, with these features. However I'm so tired of seeing this year after year. In post-racial Amerika, aren't we supposed to be past this? I guess not. These images stir up painful memories of being a second class citizen in a country that was built on the backs of enslaved Africans. It is more than disrespectful for members of the fashion to make this a novelty and simply tell us to 'get over it.' My culture is not a novelty and I simply won't forget.  It's more than interesting that blacks have made significant contributions to American culture and to fashion.

Yet we are still a minority in a gleamering sea of 'rail-thin, lily white models.' It seems that we will never be 'en vogue.' Allessandro Dell'Acqua is put into a position where his moves are constantly being watched. Didn't anyone tell him that this is unacceptable? Fashion should be an expression of oneself. Fashion shouldn't offend. Fashion is art interpreted. I'm not sure what to think about designers, models, photographers who use black face as a means to be controversial. One cannot take something that is so hurtful and reimage it.

You don't see these designers taking swastikas and putting them on the runway for fashion's sake. Respect should the common thread that binds us together. Again *le sigh*.

I look up, He looks down!

Meanie Evie