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Senin, 05 Desember 2016

Victoria's Secret Accused of Designing 'Racist Lingerie'

By Bilal Chamdy 03.00 No comments

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret

by Jerome Hudson2 Dec 20160

2 Dec, 20162 Dec, 2016

Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.

In an article, Helin Jung, executive lifestyle editor at the outlet, criticized what she called the â€œsexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporationâ€ for its â€œbrazenâ€ perpetuation of â€œwhat is clearly cultural appropriation.â€

Jung begins her critique by describing theÂ Victoriaâ€™s Secret annual fashion show, which kicked off Wednesday in Paris.

â€œModels dressed in costumes fit for segments called â€˜Dark Angel,â€™ â€˜Secret Angel,â€™ and â€˜Bright Night Angelsâ€™ stomped down the runway at the Grand Palais, showing off the sculpted results of their lifeâ€™s work and â€˜naturallyâ€™ enhanced hair,â€ Jung wrote.

After detailing the various designers, models, and entertainers showcased at the â€œmultimillion-dollar televised panty parade,â€ Jung ominously warns, â€œBut look closer and youâ€™ll see that the golden glitter path is paved with unfortunate intentions.â€

Jungâ€™s biggest point of contention, apparently, is that while Victoriaâ€™s Secretâ€™s appears to celebrate the worldâ€™s multicultural beauty through design and fashion, it is actually engaging in the â€œexploitation of these cultural references.â€

â€œ[D]onâ€™t let yourself be hoodwinked by Victoriaâ€™s Secretâ€™s brazen attempt to relabel what is clearly cultural appropriation by turning it into a celebration of â€˜culture,'â€ Jung wrote. â€œThe brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. Theyâ€™re telling us itâ€™s worldliness. Itâ€™s not; itâ€™s a hack job.â€

Jung rails against Chinese cultural appropriation, writing that â€œthe emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China.â€

But Jung also acknowledges that Nepalese Â jewelry designer Arpana Rayamajhi created most of the work for the segment.

Jung firmly rejectsÂ Victoriaâ€™s Secret for its seemingly sincere attempt at appreciating the worldâ€™s cultures.

â€œWith its positive, pre-emptive spin about globalization and multiculturalism, Victoriaâ€™s Secret seems to have anticipated my response,â€ Jung wrote. â€œThe brand is leading with the notion that weâ€™re all members of the human race, therefore everything belongs to everyone.â€

UPDATE:Â CosmopolitanÂ appears to have taken down the article, as the link leads to an error message. The article is stillÂ available in an archived linkÂ here.

Social media users who noticed the article ripped the fashion website for publishing the piece, which accused Victoria Secret of mass cultural appropriation for profit.

Cosmopolitan is confused by multiculturalism, calls it racist.https://t.co/M1RGSCODFA pic.twitter.com/J6VhkLEPdO

â€" Robot (@_RobotPanda) December 1, 2016

Why did @Cosmopolitan show only white models in article abt #VictoriaSecret being racist & no Black or Asian model?https://t.co/SMCHyMxGep pic.twitter.com/3YQAmTpFpc

â€" Lalo Dagach (@LaloDagach) December 1, 2016

@Cosmopolitan how is dressing up in an outfit that resembles natives considered racist?If anything its flattering.The left has gone crazy

â€" Deplorable Me (@bberube10) December 1, 2016

VS Racist Lingerie? https://t.co/lzyY6jzJhN via @Cosmopolitan @HelinJung is so Stupid. Wrong path. @victoriasecret pay no attention. @LOVE

â€" Illogikus (@Illogikus) December 1, 2016

@Cosmopolitan has officially jumped on the racist train, over what? Ladies lingerie! Wow @Cosmopolitan you must desperate for readers

â€" Richard S Cranford (@cranman1974) December 1, 2016

Other social media users mockedÂ CosmopolitanÂ for deleting the article.

Awwh man, Cosmopolitan deleted their story about Victoria's Secret and their "racist lingerie."

â€" Dylan Baxter (@ddbaxte) December 2, 2016

ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ @Cosmopolitan took down their fucktarded "racist lingerie" article. Not that it matters, somebody toss me an archive link to it. pic.twitter.com/VStonP9BxF

â€" CHRISHOLOWICKI =^_^= (@christofilms) December 2, 2016

FollowÂ Jerome HudsonÂ on TwitterÂ @jeromeehudson.

Victoria's Secret Accused of Designing 'Racist Lingerie'

By Bilal Chamdy 09.00 No comments

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret

by Jerome Hudson2 Dec 20160

2 Dec, 20162 Dec, 2016

Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.

Jung begins her critique by describing theÂ Victoriaâ€™s Secret annual fashion show, which kicked off Wednesday in Paris.

Jung rails against Chinese cultural appropriation, writing that â€œthe emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China.â€

But Jung also acknowledges that Nepalese Â jewelry designer Arpana Rayamajhi created most of the work for the segment.

Jung firmly rejectsÂ Victoriaâ€™s Secret for its seemingly sincere attempt at appreciating the worldâ€™s cultures.

UPDATE:Â CosmopolitanÂ appears to have taken down the article, as the link leads to an error message. The article is stillÂ available in an archived linkÂ here.

Social media users who noticed the article ripped the fashion website for publishing the piece, which accused Victoria Secret of mass cultural appropriation for profit.

Cosmopolitan is confused by multiculturalism, calls it racist.https://t.co/M1RGSCODFA pic.twitter.com/J6VhkLEPdO

â€" Robot (@_RobotPanda) December 1, 2016

Why did @Cosmopolitan show only white models in article abt #VictoriaSecret being racist & no Black or Asian model?https://t.co/SMCHyMxGep pic.twitter.com/3YQAmTpFpc

â€" Lalo Dagach (@LaloDagach) December 1, 2016

@Cosmopolitan how is dressing up in an outfit that resembles natives considered racist?If anything its flattering.The left has gone crazy

â€" Deplorable Me (@bberube10) December 1, 2016

VS Racist Lingerie? https://t.co/lzyY6jzJhN via @Cosmopolitan @HelinJung is so Stupid. Wrong path. @victoriasecret pay no attention. @LOVE

â€" Illogikus (@Illogikus) December 1, 2016

@Cosmopolitan has officially jumped on the racist train, over what? Ladies lingerie! Wow @Cosmopolitan you must desperate for readers

â€" Richard S Cranford (@cranman1974) December 1, 2016

Other social media users mockedÂ CosmopolitanÂ for deleting the article.

Awwh man, Cosmopolitan deleted their story about Victoria's Secret and their "racist lingerie."

â€" Dylan Baxter (@ddbaxte) December 2, 2016

ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ @Cosmopolitan took down their fucktarded "racist lingerie" article. Not that it matters, somebody toss me an archive link to it. pic.twitter.com/VStonP9BxF

â€" CHRISHOLOWICKI =^_^= (@christofilms) December 2, 2016

FollowÂ Jerome HudsonÂ on TwitterÂ @jeromeehudson.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 22.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

The show was organized by Chrystal Bougon, owner of Curvy Girls in San Jose. Curvy Girl is believed to be the only store in the country that specializes in nothing but lingerie for larger ladies. Her mission is to help everyone "feel sexy and beautiful - even people who are size 30, 32. We are trying to find something for everybody."

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bougon believes the reason there is not a lot of extended size lingerie available is "designers assume if you are that fat you don't want to wear lingerie - and that couldn't be further from the truth."

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Catherine James from Mountain House said it was great to have a big range of options in a big range of sizes. But James did not what to show us the lingerie she was taking home. "I'm going to keep that for my husband !" she said.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

"We are having a fun time and nobody is feeling ashamed to go back and get that extra meat ball because, who cares, the skinny girls get an extra meatball if they want to. You get to do that too" declared Osborne.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

She remembers a turning point 4 years ago. "I had this moment where I was like, oh my God, maybe I don't have to hate myself for the rest of my life. That had never crossed my mind before. I was 26. And after that I thought that, you can't unthink that and so I was kind of on this journey."

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Lady Gaga Wears Lingerie at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

By Bilal Chamdy 21.00 No comments

Lady Gaga got the full Angel treatment while filming the annual Victoriaâ€™s Secret Fashion Show on Wednesday, and she was so inspired by the models around her, she stripped down to her underwear to celebrate. In fact, she got to wear the same exact lingerie set as the professional catwalkers.

â€œCouple bruises from dance rehearsal but love rocking this silver VS! Thank you to the Angels ðŸ'¼ for treating me like family! #vsfashionshow #joanne,â€ Gaga captioned the above photo on Instagram, showing of her fit frame. And if the bruises are any indication, her performance is bound to have everyone on their feet.

Gaga spent some time catching up with stars backstage in the days leading up to the show, and was starstruck to be in the middle of a Hadid sister sandwich.

â€œOk on a scale 1-10 how many men (or women) wish they were me right now. Caught in Babe SandwichðŸ'™ðŸ˜ðŸ'•#vsfashionshow,â€ she captioned the photo below.

This is the first time Gaga has performed at the Victoriaâ€™s Secret Fashion Show, and her trip to Paris marks one of many stop on her Joanne album promo tour. The singer is gearing up to headline the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show next year, and said in a recent interview with >CBS Sunday Morning that she approaches all her performances with the same motto:

â€œYou gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.â€

And while the VS Fashion Show stage is far from a dive bar, we know Gaga brought down the house.

What do you think of Gagaâ€™s backstage lingerie moment? Share below!

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 15.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 16.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 13.08 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 14.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 21.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 23.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

By Bilal Chamdy 00.00 No comments

CAMPBELL, CA --

The Bay Area is ground zero in a crusade to open up what used to be a very private area. We're talking about equal opportunity for large women in the lingerie department.

Plus size clothing is already a $20-billion industry - and growing, but lingerie has lagged behind. So now body image activists say it's time everybody gets to flaunt it!

That's what happened at the Unapologetically Beautiful Fashion Show in Campbell, where women, size 12 and up, strutted their stuff in sexy lingerie.

Bougon was thrilled when 225 women applied to be models at her show. She says that's a lot of people "willing to be half naked, on a runway at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon!"

Bay area model Saucye West , size 28, was one of the gorgeous gals on the runway, but a lot of models in this show are not so used to the spotlight.

Stephenie Torres of San Jose walked the runway. Torres said "It felt so good walking into that room, even before the show started and instantly feeling love and positivity. No judgement. "

She added "Hell ,yes I'm fat, and I'm fabulous!"

Women came from all over the bay area, wearing all kinds of fun fashion and ready to buy more.

Tigress Osborne of Oakland says the fashion show is part of the "size acceptance" movement. Osborne says that for large women even the simple act of eating in public can be a political statement.

The event also featured author Jes Baker, known as a "fat activist." She's a hero in this community for her blog, The Militant Baker, and book called "Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls."

Baker is spreading the message that happiness does not have to be related to size.

Baker got an emotional thank you from fans at the fashion show, and big applause when she hit the runway herself in lingerie.

Click here to check out The Curvy Girl store.

Click here for Jes Baker's blog.

Written and produced by Jennifer Olney.

Why Can't Victoria's Secret Stop Designing Racist Lingerie?

By Bilal Chamdy 23.00 No comments

Victoria's Secret taped its annual fashion show on Wednesday in Paris, and as is customary, the creatives behind the production bundled looks together by theme. Models dressed in costumes fit for segments called "Dark Angel," "Secret Angel," and "Bright Night Angels" stomped down the runway at the Grand Palais showing off the sculpted results of their life's work and "naturally" enhanced hair.

The segment that opened the show was less Angel-forward, more "It's a Small World." You had all the heavy-hitters â€" Adriana Lima, Joan Smalls, Kendall Jenner, and Gigi Hadid â€" wearing the purple and teal lace lingerie that Victoria's Secret is ostensibly selling during its multi-million-dollar televised panty parade. Lady Gaga was singing. The catwalk was gold and glittery.

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But look closer and you'll see that the golden glitter path is paved with unfortunate intentions.

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Called "The Road Ahead," the segment featured costumes that were supposedly inspired by what you might call multi-culturalism. "This was the geography bit," according to the Telegraph's report, "a kind of round-the world trip courtesy of countless pom-poms and meters-upon-meters of fringing. American model Taylor Hill donned a rather beautiful Chinoiserie printed robe while Liu Wen, one of the four Chinese models cast in the show, jangled with pom-poms. Given the global appeal of the show, it seemed like a fitting way to begin."

Arpana Rayamajhi, a Nepalese jewelry designer based in New York City, described the theme this way: She said, "The idea is that you're blending little bits of this and that from all cultures around the world." Rayamajhi created much of the handmade jewelry for the segment; the jewelry included silk threads turned into tassels, coins from Nepal, and beads â€" "a huge part of my culture."

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At a model fitting with Lais Ribeiro, other Victoria's Secret artisans told AOL that making the costume in question involved using "strips of culture." AOL explained that the panels were "truly worldly â€" inspired by the likes of Peruvian, Mexican, and Chinese design."

While Martha Hunt, in another behind-the-scenes video with Vogue, said that her look was "like Pocahontas meets Jasmine and they're going bull-riding."

Indeed, so many "bits of this and that."

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None of that even sounds nice, but if it does, don't let yourself be hoodwinked by Victoria's Secret's brazen attempt to re-label what is clearly cultural appropriation by turning it into a celebration of "culture." The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They're telling us it's worldliness. It's not, it's a hack job.

Collection creative director Sophia Neophitou described the hand-painted fabrics used in this segment by saying, "It's meant to be this naive, homespun ... but this is so luxurious."

It doesn't get much more patronizing than that, does it? The original version is made by simple people ("naive") who make crafts ("homespun"), and it's Victoria's Secret that can elevate the primitive to something more "luxurious." What would be the point of the corporation's untold resources and unparalleled knowledge of world cultures if it couldn't do that?

Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China. The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner. There's a lot of talk of China as a dominant world power of the 21st century, and the U.S. government, Hollywood, and now Victoria's Secret, it seems, are pivoting to face a new reality. But the Orientalism on display here doesn't show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn't close any gaps. What condescension, for Victoria's Secret to think that by wrapping a model in a dragon, it could connect directly with a new consumer in China.

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With its positive, pre-emptive spin about globalization and multi-culturalism, Victoria's Secret seems to have anticipated my response. The brand is leading with the notion that we're all members of the human race, therefore everything belongs to everyone. But this is exceptional disingenuousness coming from a brand that once put Karlie Kloss in a Native American war bonnet and leopard print underwear. The fact is that even as the world gets more connected, a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation continues to take what it wants for its own gain. Its exploitation of these cultural references is meant to lead directly to profits. And I'm not buying it.

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Victoria's Secret Accused of Designing 'Racist Lingerie'

Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.

Jumat, 02 Desember 2016

Victoria's Secret Accused of Designing 'Racist Lingerie'

Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.

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Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

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Lady Gaga Wears Lingerie at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

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Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

Plus size lingerie promotes positive body image

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Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.

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Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.

Womenswear brand Victoriaâ€™s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation and of designing â€œracistâ€ lingerie by a lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan magazine.