Comme des Garçons Is Being Accused of Racism for Controversial Runway Coiffure
Comme des Garçons is dealing with main backlash after the style model debuted its fall 2020 menswear assortment throughout Paris Trend Week — and, this time, it wasn't the wacky garments inflicting social media to meltdown.
On Friday, the Japanese style home despatched fashions (largely white) down the runway carrying lace-front wigs designed to resemble cornrows, and critics have been fast to name out the model for cultural appropriation.
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"I really feel precisely how these wigs look: drained, disinterested in being right here," model and wonder blogger Tasha James wrote on Twitter, whereas Canadian dressmaker Tani — who was among the many first to query the model's styling selection — tweeted: "Lmaoooo why?!”
In the meantime, one other person instructed a possible motive for the controversial coiffure, writing, "They do it on goal now to draw consideration to their new strains… it's outrage advertising and marketing." Whatever the motivation, it's clear the model was reckless with their inventive license.
It's additionally vital to level out that this isn't the primary time Comme des Garçons has come underneath fireplace for racist habits. In February 2018, author Martin Lerme wrote an article titled, "Why Received't Commes des Garçons Rent Black Fashions?" In it, Lerme introduced consideration to the model's lack of range on the runway, and thru his analysis, he discovered that the model hasn't forged a black mannequin (or any mannequin of shade) in additional than 20 years.
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"After reviewing the 54 runway reveals (excluding the as but unavailable Fall 1991 season) on Vogue, which features a complete of two,533 appears, I used to be solely in a position to establish 5 black fashions — a complete of 32 appearances comprising 1.26 % of the full runway exits — over your entire coated time span," Lerme wrote, including: "The final black mannequin I used to be capable of finding who traversed the coveted Comme runway was Chrystèle Saint Louis Augustin within the Fall 1994 present."
Comme des Garçons has but to touch upon its newest controversy.
