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Wednesday 24 August 2011

Vogue Italia Apologizes For Slavery Trend Piece. Excavations Deeper Hole.

Vogue Italia Apologizes For Slavery Trend Piece. Excavations Deeper Hole.
Periodically, the mode has its moments Zoolander, stupid decisions made by judges in the industry who trivialize real human suffering in order to create controversy.
In 2001, a parody of the film is inspired collection for the homeless derelict. In real life, it was Duncan Quinn, a woman has stifled ad, Calvin Klein, child pornography on the campaign, and now the latest: Vogue slave earrings.
In the Italian edition of the magazine this month, reveals a story of Creole trend called "Loops slave." The text accompanying the image of a model wearing jewelry circular reads: "If the name brings to mind decorative traditions of women of color who were brought to the southern United States during the slave trade, the latter interpretation is pure freedom. "
Vogue Sorry, but the terrible history of oppression and torture of the American people can not be treated with the same declaration Knight, for example, Bell funds making a comeback. Theme of slavery has never been and never will be food fashion fair game. Twitter universe is made abundantly clear in hordes of comments Monday as "incredibly offensive" and "what the f --- were you thinking?" flooded the social networking community. Finally, the editors of Italian Vogue has a clue. More or less.
"We apologize for any inconvenience. It is a question of really bad translation from Italian into English," the magazine editor Franca Sozzani says in a press statement. "The Italian word that defines the type of earrings, should rather be translated as" ethnic style earrings. "Again, we apologize for this error, we just changed the site."
If the "damage" was not enough convincing evidence, the title will change to "Slave earrings" and "ethnic earrings," the magazine has been translated into English Web site, has been tipped in the readers, something that was still on and the personal bible of Italian fashion. "It 'just afraid that a high fashion magazine, to find two words to a slave and ethnic-replaceable", writes Fashionista is Hayley Phelan.
Monday evening, the entire article was ultimately removed from view and replaced with the following text: ". We have decided to cancel the article and the site shows our sincere and it seems that our purpose was not to offend anyone"
But for many, the damage has already occurred. If fashion is about to control how people perceive, and Vogue is the fashion world of the Bible, the Italian suppliers are unable to provide any advice. At this time, they felt incapable.

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