We reported on this earlier this week and we have some new developments to report. Italian Vogue is under a lot of heat for their supposed “ethnic” online story feature entitled “Slave Earrings”. Using a distasteful title to display earrings they believe look cultural is everything fashion should not represent. Never one to bite her tongue, the pioneer in black modeling Iman chimed in on how the Italian Vogue feature is less than amusing.
This is what Iman said below:
“I’m a huge fan of Franca Sozzani and Vogue Italia’s website because they have a whole section on black models. Is it controversial? Yes. The naming of it, I don’t get it. I sometimes wonder in this age of reality shows has it become part of the language–the more controversy the more [buzz] it creates. But yeah, I didn’t like it. Slave does not make it ethnic. Mind you, it’s not lost in translation–the word slave, we know what it is. They might as well have called them “n***** earrings.” For somebody like Franca Sozzani, who did that whole black issue for Vogue, somebody should have said something.”
What are your thoughts on the Italian Vogue “slave earrings” story?
- Tunisia Z. Wilson
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