Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: angry

Black Models on Parade

So this guy did a fashion show with black models, and people bitched.

Here's the thing about clothes: they go with people's skin tone.  Or they don't.  So if you want to see what clothes look like on the right body, you have to put them on people with the skin tone those clothes were designed for.   People whose skin is some shade of brown look good in different colors than people whose skin is some shade of cream.  Or gold. Or red.  You get the picture.  Those clothes aren't white girl clothes.  They are black girl clothes.  Nice, rich, deep colors.  What people are saying when they bitch about the show is that 1) those clothes wouldn't look good on them and therefore aren't worth making, and 2) black women don't deserve nice clothes.

Fuck that noise.
Tags: ethnic studies, gender studies, news
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  • 5 comments
fayanora

fayanora

March 3 2016, 08:00:43 UTC 5 years ago

A fucking men!
rhodielady_47

A Few Thoughts on this...

rhodielady_47

March 3 2016, 17:09:13 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  March 3 2016, 17:10:06 UTC

I thought he did a nice job with his collection--he's very skilled--and I've been sewing all of my life (started learning at age four). In the FEW pictures of his clothing that the article showed, I saw several outfits I think I'd enjoy wearing even in the colors he was using in this fashion show. (BTW, I'm white.)

I've long wondered WHY the fashion world ignores those people who aren't like the mainstream majority. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.

What these uneducated idiots who are doing all the bitching fail to realize is that about all it would take to produce a fashion show FOR EVERYONE based on his clothing would be for him to produce more than one color-way of each outfit and that's it. He could have had one for each set of skin tones.
He'd have gotten extra points for ultimate textile mastery from me if he'd also gone on to have produced the outfits in different body types/sizes but I say that because I'm size-challenged.
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These people doing the bitching about this fashion show are simply rat-arsed tacky and there's no amount of fancy clothing that will ever do anything to disguise the poverty of soul they've unwittingly displayed to the entire world.

{{{Heaves big heavy sigh.}}}
:^(

thnidu

thnidu

March 4 2016, 04:59:15 UTC 5 years ago

Funny, I never heard of any complaints from white folks that there's too little diversity in all-white shows.
patina

patina

March 5 2016, 18:44:01 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  March 5 2016, 18:44:50 UTC

Ah yeah, the good old "I am uncomfortable when we are not about me???"

Although I hesitate to say "it's okay if things aren't about you" to the people that get offended because I just know someone's going to turn it around and argue that that means there's no need for minority representation. Because some people have no sense of proportion or of the bigger picture.
book_worm5

book_worm5

March 5 2016, 21:45:06 UTC 5 years ago

The commenters saying "What about height/weight/age diversity?" did have a point, but I think this should be celebrated for the representation it did have first. /Then/ you ask for more.