Several scandalous clothing collections list! In November, Dolce & Gabbana canceled a Shanghai fashion show, just as it was scheduled to start, after being accused of racism. The controversy started after the luxury label shared videos on Instagram in which an Asian model attempted to eat Italian food with chopsticks. The videos were meant to promote the Shanghai event, which the brand had dubbed “The Great Show,” but instead they sparked anger online. Users on the Chinese social media platform Weibo accused the label of trivializing Chinese culture and presenting a racist view of women. To make matters even worse, it appeared Stefano Gabbana, one of the brand’s co-founders, was responding to upset commenters online with offensive insults. He later claimed his account, and the account of the brand, had been hacked.
Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2000 Collection, “Eye”, Alexander McQueen presented his Spring/Summer 2000 collection in New York on the night of Hurricane Floyd. The show, entitled Eye, dealt with the theme of Western fears of Islam and many of the clothes in the show directly referenced traditional Islamic dress. The show was particularly controversial because it featured sexualized versions of the niqaab and featured models in burqas flying over a bed of nails that had risen from the floor during the finale.
Designers Refusing To Dress Melania Trump, After the election of Donald Trump, several designers grappled with how to handle dressing the new First Lady, Melania Trump. Sophie Theallet wrote a public letter stating that she would not be dressing Melania (despite the fact that she had done so for former First Lady Michelle Obama) because of her husband’s policies. Following the letter, other designers followed suit including Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs. For her first Presidential appearance at the inauguration, Melania ended up wearing an American designer, Ralph Lauren.
His anti-Semitic comments weren’t the first offense committed from the Brit-French designer John Galliano. In one of his last Dior collections before being ousted for public xenophobic comments, the designer created an haute couture collection based on Paris’ homeless. Apparently, the Spring/Summer 2000 show was inspired by the homeless Parisians he encountered while he was running along the Seine. He presented a bricolage collection of shredded and tattered couture garments incorporating found objects such as miniature whiskey bottles (a reference to alcoholism) and kitchen utensils (referencing starvation) strung along the models’ waists. Questions were immediately raised about the tastefulness of the collection. Many found the conjunction of homelessness with haute couture distasteful, as dresses can go for upwards of $50,000.
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