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Over the weekend Dolce & Gabbana debuted some controversial attire and accessories during Milan’s Fashion Week.
Several fashion critics have described the pieces, which are featured in D& G’s spring 2013 collection, as a “Mammy” type character and some have even called them “Aunt Jemima” dolls.
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Oh…. and to add more fuel to the fire, there were no Black models featured in the show.
More photos + details below:
Walking in Milan over the weekend, Dolce & Gabbana’s spring 2013 collection was a campy homage to colonial Sicily, or, more accurately, “Sicilia,” as one burlap sack-dress proclaimed. At first overlooked amid the kitschy conquistador prints: earrings resembling Blackamoor statues, which popped up nine times in the 86 looks.
Decorative arts in this style were popular across the Mediterranean, particularly in Italy, during the time period, as trade routes and expeditions crisscrossed the North African continent. But the imagery soon came to represent the slave trade, specifically, in the region and the Western world at large.
Are the images displayed in Dolce & Gabbana’s new line racist? Thoughts…
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I dont think so? It looks like a person with a fruit hat on. My problem is its UGLY well I should say not my taste.
It won’t sell here. Just returned from New Orleans and couldn’t find any "mammy" salt & pepper shakers, sppon rests or anything. Was there 7 years ago and that’s all they were selling in the French Quarter markets. Apparently "Aunt Jemima" aint’ hot! In my Tamar voice…..
Blackamoor art and design isn’t racist. It exemplifies and glorifies black people in a very beautiful and idealistic manner. Racism is such an over/incorrectly used term. Simply subscribing to the belief that the human race can be divided on the basis of culture or skin color into separate ‘races’ is not racist. Assigning a standard of hierarchy based on a racial division is prejudice. Once the power to discriminate is added into the equation, we see the makings of racism. If there is no discrimination against an ethnic group as a result of racial prejudice, then its not an example of racism. If putting a blackamoor figurine on jewelry or a dress is "racist", then using a black model in an advertisement is just as racist. C’mon now.
PLEASE!!! NOT TODAY!! YOU USED TOO MANY DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT IS EVIDENTLY GOING ON TODAY! NOT sorry for shouting but my GOTDAMN VOTING PLACE WAS CHANGED YESTERDAY! I AM PISSED!! (breathing***) I don’t wanna’ HEAR bout no LACK OF RACSISM!
..Oh,and because of RACSIST label given to that fashion…(a tribute to MAMMY?)…this fashion SUCKS!!!!!
And for the record, and for the sake of people who won’t do their own research, blackamoor art and the slave-age "mammy maids" have no relation. This post’s title is very misleading
MAESTRO…play yo’ violin in MAMMY’S OUTHOUSE.
Not racist to me. I got more of a problem with Paula Dean slinging "Ho cakes", that is a slave dish through and through.
What’s racist about this now?
Not racist, just plain ugly!!!
I’m not sure if it’s racist but, [Shug Avery voice] "IT SHO IS UGLY"
Hilarious!
This is the type of stuff designers do and call it "Chic". Those Mr’s Butterworth earrings can be seen by blacks as racist and totally inappropriate. I dont know what those Asian man earrings are in the last photo, but Asian’s probably aren’t offended by it like blacks would be. I have no problem withe Mammy look, but those earrings need to go. And why are they on white women? All artists need to stay away from anything that can be seen as culturally offensive. But Dolce and Gabbana aren’t doing as well as they were in the early to mid 2000′s, so they may be doing this for sales.
Doesn’t look racist to me. Not anything I’d wear but I don’t see anything that could be considered racist.
D&G is trippin. Who do they think is gonna wear this crap?! Especially those earrings, ew.
There is nothing RACIST about those earrings. As a woman from the Caribbean…I LOVE THEM! Hope to cop a pair asap!
They look very CREOLE!
Now yall know…good and damn well…if you saw a white chic walkin’ down the street…past yo’ church on Sunday…wearing "Mammy" earrings..you’d take your bible and whoop her azz with it.
..And if she’s seen with that dress on..she’s gonna get punched in the gut…by somebody.
Thank you
Thank you.
Thank YOU!! You see they messin’ with us right…Um’ game. Let it be BRUNG!!
Glad I am not the only one who sees it…just get tired of talking about other folks ignorance. It’s so very sickening…SMH
I love the idea of "turn the other cheek" church-goers whopping ass with a bible. Walking contradiction. SMDH but loving it.
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Not racist. Crying wolf. Get a life. We got bigger fish to fry than a damn fashion line.
There are so many intrepretations of fashion that it’s hard to say if this is really racist or not. I do think it can be viewed as being "insensitive". However, aren’t we all talking about D&G’s line now so, its probable intent (getting people to talk) has been a huge success.
Personally, I am glad that D&G chose not to have black models wearing this stuff.
And, to the commenter who claims she wants a pair of the "Auntie Mamie" earrings because they look "Creole" to her, then, girl, go get them. Life is choices. And, my choice is to run away from all of this mess in hopes that this look will not become a new fashion trend.
Well..you can take your "Creole" lovin’ azz and join Maestro…she can play her violin while you fish turds outta’ Mammy’s out house. This is NOT the time to showcase this sh*t with voter suppression and racially underlined policies raising volatile atmospheres throughout country.
I’m just sayin… If these white chicks wanna run around in "mammie attire" do you. I’m straight. I don’t think they’re racist, just not my cup of tea.
That’s cause if your azz IS BLACK and you aint’ SEEN one of these bitches in yo’ face with what they think are your ancestors danglin’ off their ears like decapitation heirlooms from their "Good Ole Days" Dixie dads…but then why am I even talking to you? You don’t know nothing about your own history.
Then again your name IS "Donna". Anybody up in here know ANY BLACK chic named "DONNA"?
I know to two hoodrat cousins named La’Donna and Shay’Donna. Their mommas was grandma’s in their early 30′s and still got kool-aid hair. Ghetto breads ghetto.
Dolce & Gabbana!!!
Kidz… Get into it!
It’s better than a lot of this street gear I see a lot of y’all wearing.
Dana T.
KIDZ DON’T!! IT’S A SERIOUS FAIL!!!
These RICH azz designers KNOW how GREAT the BLACK CONSUMER $$$$ IS. Now they want to see just how IGNORANT you are. This is like that bet on "Trading Places". Only YOU will be the unenlightened FOOL!!
Don’t purchase foolishness!Don’t support those that make incensitive clothing… and the way some of youth of today acts,brain flopping dead, they may find this trend entertaining. Stupid fashion designers…Oh, and what do the other black models and fashion critics have to say about this new line of "art"?I see we have many apologist in the house.American blacks with a keen sight for history, understand that this is not art , but subtle racist jabs; great way to make so much needed dollas off of peopleThis is my take on the matter.
And lets not forget this comes a few weeks after Michelle Obama was depicted as a slave on the cover of a south american magazine. I don’t believe that Dolce & Gabbana are racist by any means, nor do I believe they intended for it to come across as racist, but come on, DO SOME RESEARCH. One measly click onto Wikipedia would have let them know that:
"Aunt Jemima originally came from a minstrel show as one of their pantheon of stereotypical African American characters"
Another measly click onto Wikipedia would have let them know:
"Mammy, a stereotype of a black woman, depicted as rotund, homely, and matronly"
That should have been enough for them to put the breaks on this entire collection. It’s ugly, it’s racist, and it’s offensive. And everyone who says it’s not racist or offensive, I triple dog dare you to buy a pair of those earrings, wear them to work, and see how all the white people in the office react to your ass.