A Fashion Misstatement? – IOTW Report

A Fashion Misstatement?

The president of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has publicly apologised after facing backlash for a ‘clearly racist’ fashion show.

The New York fashion school hosted an alumni runway show on 7 February, showcasing designers from its MFE Fashion Design class, but the models were wearing enormous prosthetic lips, ears and bushy eyebrows.

Model Amy Lefevre told The New York Post that she felt ‘uncomfortable’ and refused to wear the weird accessories, which she described as ‘clearly racist’ and resembling ‘monkey ears’. More

18 Comments on A Fashion Misstatement?

  1. They don’t look like black people to me… more like hideous monkeys or monsters

    So how is it racist then? Are the people getting mad the real racists for thinking that ENORMOUS ears and ENORMOUS lips are black traits?
    How do they explain the eyebrows then? Blacks do NOT have jumbo jet sized eyebrows. They over pluck and shave them like crazy.

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  2. Hideous but not racist.

    big ears – monkey
    bushy eyebrows – groucho marks
    stuck on red lips – mr potatoe head

    what race exactly do the offended think this represents?

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  3. Too many gays in the fashion industry who like like to shock us with creepy clothes. And I wonder why I can’t find pretty, feminine clothes anymore.
    Don’t worry though, you can now get high rise jeans with a waist almost under your armpits!

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