Sometimes people these days are just so sensitive and can’t seem to stop thinking about ways on how to be politically-correct when their argument is not even remotely connected to what the issue was all about.
Take for instance the online photo above which features the editor-in-chief of a Russian women's fashion magazine sitting atop a half-naked black woman who contorts her body into a chair. The web was all abuzz when this was posted by Bruno247 online magazine.
Many think it was too offensive for their taste and said that the “undertones of racial superiority have not escaped them”, not even in the year 2014.
"The art and fashion industries are the few bastions of society where blatant racism and ignorance are given the greenlight in the name of creativity," writes Claire Sulmers for FashionBombDaily.com.
The problem with these so-called moral watchdogs is that they are they are painfully ignorant of the fashion industry. They should have known better than to push their hands in areas that they are not familiar with.
As long as they see a black person in a very disadvantageous position, wilful ignorance sets in. How many times have we seen fashionistas have their hand slapped for using black face models? What if it was a black man, would there be a more violent reaction?
What if the designer just wants to express his or her “artistic” depiction of a ‘Master and Servant’ bondage fetish? What if it just so happens that the like black women, so he/she made the model black?
What if the editor above was sitting on a "white woman" chair who is laying on her back, topless, in only panties, legs up in the air in spike-healed boots? Is it acceptable because the woman portrayed is white? It's racism when it's a black woman, but pop art, when it's a white woman? The sexualization of white women is not wrong?
Are these 'race guardians' even aware that the chair was inspired by similar chairs using white, female dummies designed by British pop artist Allen Jones in 1969? Have you raised any sort of outcry on that one?
Take for instance the online photo above which features the editor-in-chief of a Russian women's fashion magazine sitting atop a half-naked black woman who contorts her body into a chair. The web was all abuzz when this was posted by Bruno247 online magazine.
Many think it was too offensive for their taste and said that the “undertones of racial superiority have not escaped them”, not even in the year 2014.
"The art and fashion industries are the few bastions of society where blatant racism and ignorance are given the greenlight in the name of creativity," writes Claire Sulmers for FashionBombDaily.com.
The problem with these so-called moral watchdogs is that they are they are painfully ignorant of the fashion industry. They should have known better than to push their hands in areas that they are not familiar with.
As long as they see a black person in a very disadvantageous position, wilful ignorance sets in. How many times have we seen fashionistas have their hand slapped for using black face models? What if it was a black man, would there be a more violent reaction?
What if the designer just wants to express his or her “artistic” depiction of a ‘Master and Servant’ bondage fetish? What if it just so happens that the like black women, so he/she made the model black?
What if the editor above was sitting on a "white woman" chair who is laying on her back, topless, in only panties, legs up in the air in spike-healed boots? Is it acceptable because the woman portrayed is white? It's racism when it's a black woman, but pop art, when it's a white woman? The sexualization of white women is not wrong?
Are these 'race guardians' even aware that the chair was inspired by similar chairs using white, female dummies designed by British pop artist Allen Jones in 1969? Have you raised any sort of outcry on that one?
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