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Once again, Marc Jacobs’ Fashion Week presentation has left fashion cognoscenti talking — but not because of the way runway models wore his clothes. Rather, Jacobs’ collection came under fire on social media because of the way his models wore their hair.

As part of Thursday’s show, the enigmatic designer sent a cast of predominantly white models down the catwalk with multicolored wool dreadlocks spilling from their crowns.

While it is true that dreadlocks have been linked to other cultures, they are a mainstay in black culture, a manageable means of protecting strands, a symbol of black pride in a society that stigmatizes textured hair while privileging straight hair.

And yet as ubiquitous as locs are in black culture, they were presented on an overwhelmingly white lineup with Palau omitting black culture as one of the inspirations. Though he did seem to allude it, telling the magazine: "The interesting thing about Marc is how he takes something so street and so raw, and because of the coloration of the hair and the makeup, it becomes a total look. Something that we've bypassed on the street and not really looked at, or seen a million times, he makes us look at it again in a much more sophisticated and fashionable way."

And herein lies the issue: Black culture isn't deemed "sophisticated" or "fashionable" until it is co-opted by white tastemakers. It is one thing to engage in cultural exchange — fashion has made a practice of this, piecing together elements of different cultures to produce transcendent mosaics — but it's another to seemingly bypass aspects of one culture and then act as if whitewashing them somehow elevates them.

Note to designers and stylists everywhere: It doesn't. - SOURCE

 

Marc's response to criticism:

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2 minutes ago, Harry Styles said:

Even if it was on black models girl this would still look like some late 70s/early 80s T R A S H it's so ugly
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If he had hired black girls who already had dreads, they wouldn't look ugly sis. These white girls look like they have grinch fingers on the top of their head.

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That was a messy and over simplified response.

 

WoC often feel the need to adhere to western beauty standards bc that's what they've been told is beautiful their entire life. Bc they were told their natural hair is ugly, and messy, and unprofessional looking. Why black children are sent home from school and only allowed back upon having their natural hair cut or relaxed. People are frustrated of living their life being told something only natural is wrong with them, or to not get hired for a job, or be ridiculed, only for white rich folks to make it trendy/ edgy and turn a profit off of.

 

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2 hours ago, Kali said:

That was a messy and over simplified response.

 

WoC often feel the need to adhere to western beauty standards bc that's what they've been told is beautiful their entire life. Bc they were told their natural hair is ugly, and messy, and unprofessional looking. Why black children are sent home from school and only allowed back upon having their natural hair cut or relaxed. People are frustrated of living their life being told something only natural is wrong with them, or to not get hired for a job, or be ridiculed, only for white rich folks to make it trendy/ edgy and turn a profit off of.

 

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Stupid people who think cultural appropriation is a thing. More like cultural IGNORANCE. There are way more important issues out there to focus on and this mess is so fucking racist. Funny it comes from people who claim to be anti-racists. This world is doomed. 

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Disgusting. I can't with him or ignorant/apathetic/RACIST white people. Mass media crucifies POC's that express and celebrate their cultures, but as soon as a fucking white person does it, it's genius groundbreaking revolutionary fashion. It's bullshit. Racism.com/whitepeople.

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Am I the only one who thinks it looks good dead4 

Agree with everyone about the media's awful hypocrisy that something is 'cool' and 'edgy' on a white person but 'ugly' and 'distracting' on a POC, but if a white person gets dreads I don't think they should be crucified for it either dead4 

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15 hours ago, Django said:

Stupid people who think cultural appropriation is a thing. More like cultural IGNORANCE. There are way more important issues out there to focus on and this mess is so fucking racist. Funny it comes from people who claim to be anti-racists. This world is doomed. 

More like stupid people who think cultural appropriation ISN'T a thing. So because people are starving in 3rd world countries, let's drop everything that's less of a problem than that? How idiotic of you. brit4 

And yes, the world is doomed for uneducated racists and bigoted. Now go read a book before responding. rav1 

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