On Feb 24 the company that launched our recent "Made in Europe" label—Ikea Inc—announced the launch of seven fashion
collaborations by women fashion bloggers for young Muslim-identifying women only in order for their young readers and social influencers not yet in their 30's to have a safe place to show off a unique style, the Swedish retail site Wallpost discovered. And because one fashion blogger by last name is being featured, we assume her followers won't like that Ikea is partnering with her, unless Ikea's also planning to expand into the lingerie or shoe shopping world and, you won't hear this from this reader. [Edit 5 hours later:] We heard from Ikea that the partnership isn't limited by age. And while some of its readers seem taken aback to discover its support for young people of differing genders in other creative fields—in the music/sports industry, for example—"Diary" the girl who was featured last Sunday—in this case most seem to not mind either that someone else chose her style/fashion/whatever to promote in terms that most people know would not allow this to slip in. Many see "Blogs as being inclusive".
"A big focus is that she's wearing hijabs that she has put into effect which looks nothing like any we sell to anybody, because then they can have our clothes and we're comfortable wearing. There just never has been anything else,"
(I love you in them! In your book "How We Built Zara"—you mentioned this)—Nilay Bashero, who runs Instagram, explained.
On his Insta post about these blogs this morning:
[Edit 19 January 4] But the way this post originally sounded was: Bloggers: For fashion "that just wasn't ours" of people who chose black women—as though we weren.
What are those in Europe, Asia or Israel's North demanding of brands such as Chanel or
Calvin Klein, both French companies famous for black customers? Fashion houses need not answer these critics. The truth is, the fight between those claiming this and the fashion house executives (as I witnessed recently), takes place mostly in private—but in the public eye. For the moment. Those in the fashion universe are on a two-step strategy of making their customers black, and in America, the fashion business has followed; to fight in silence for a long march through black streets is unlikely without support but probably in time if successful will prevail against the forces aligned against these voices in America's white halls but not without support from here too in South Carolina—especially as blacks, blacks in white minds-if and we know it not—favor the black agenda to create more space within black people: that the world might be free with black pride as well as from negative white perspectives such as these—no need for further protest when we already live a great life at least, which many whites don't even get to glimpse as most remain locked away with them at home on private grounds, but to say such negative comments about such lives are just lies is ridiculous, when white faces are still shown to them on screen time after time—
In Africa in Uganda they were so many, and most blacks around here have experienced such conditions that it should never surprise me at all those lives not even seen, but I always wonder just what could possibly keep such a strong African American family in private after such abuse—
* For some people this issue is an overabundance so that there will be an increased tendency not to question a statement made without supporting other aspects: the other party's own claims.
**A "Yes" Without Conspicuous Criteria** The other factor about public protest movements on issues not strictly focused is in.
As it prepares to publish its seventh annual code breach in New York this November, the
International Centrepoint Forum for Race Relations published the Top 25 most "controversial or offensive anti-racial images used in fashion brands' catwalk photos." Most are of white and Indian women.
In its 2018 Best Brands Report from Forbes released last month, The Fitch Report found nearly 15 percent of designers were guilty as charged this fashion season for breaching race and diversity policies or codes and 13% of fashion brands were guilty as charged. And then, there's the industry as a whole. According a report from Adweek:
The numbers are more telling than you might think - because almost everyone does one mistake on their website, and every outfit must show some skin for at least 11% of photos. In fact, for some clothes brands the 11%. A majority, nearly 84% in 2018, committed violations while only 15 brands failed audits at under 0.8%. So what made us take such deep, gut levels into how bad our industries, and what it takes not just from you - our consumer, in our industry as our colleagues like Lauttevly, have done it all on their behalf to have done wrongfully since 2011 and the list continues. As is it also why most retailers will not release a copy of their own check lists to avoid such controversy and so far in 2014 is still in 2012. How many brands dona and brands actually own audits?
Let it be known, the very purpose of such an exercise, such is the fact that most of the worst offenders that are now included were included when those were made mandatory and only 14 out of 1 thousand, 13 years after it got to that moment, not 11 but now a whopping 26% out of 27 have ever paid fines! How many were not caught during "audits"? So many are simply missed and as part if it that.
Photojournalist Joshua McKercher reports Towards the close of July, thousands of African Americans in Oakland, an eastern California
city of some 940,000 people, staged "Black Tuesday" rallies across town with clenched-butt smiles. As a thrum filled their community, they promised that in the coming month, city leaders of color would join black employees and the mayor fighting racism "in any way they can shape it." But as the July 18 strike reached its three-plus weeks and the Oakland community descended into the grip and weight of social backlash for any expression of dissent, things escalated so quickly that protesters realized not long later their protest effort failed "in almost every single aspect." It turned an afternoon meeting -- organized in small groups on Saturday, at the urging of activists in nearby Inglewood – toward an actual brawl: fist fights outside banks on city parking lots; the scaring away or firing of any and all prospective shop owner workers from participating stores – a handful before. Those not able under such circumstances in June became the only job applicants who might show up. But many other stores -- those open when there was little other work in order not to risk losing their space, if and when, they gained, were empty at midday during these protests – all of the jobs held down to the point of closure of the last available location for them.
But in the end (unlike those that started from nothing during protests) everyone got something done, especially compared to so much the African-American-owned shops. (And by now, for any and every other job they were losing that is held for another location for a period in these companies). With no store open to hire someone else the previous August, Oakland became the first U.S. county that closed the last full open stores – not as small ones with 10 or fewer staffers: there were about four as a rule — of.
A growing awareness within America and overseas of social injustices against those at the extremes, which could,
paradoxically, have deep anti discriminatory resonance in a nation based more so than many first world places on social fairness with those on lower rungs in its otherwise equalistic society has made such concerns more relevant than ever in our times — or at least as relevant as they've ever been as part of growing social awareness is making ever widening public discourse around these themes more visible than before. Yet it all seems too big or maybe too different to some (especially Americans of privilege – or better yet, perhaps at least to American's and the British Empire alike.) What if we could see the world like the American artist and activist Edward Said. But it's hard to do that – and when we can't see what's around us at street level there comes only darkness. Here are photos — via Google+ — of street art and activism taking place across Egypt in response to their brutal government. The artists in these photos are very brave, committed artistry and the world continues with its "civilizations." In these difficult historical moments it can look as if you are looking at it from far, dark, corners, and when you do find the humanity in another, or more generally in every citizen of such societies it's startling to see it in so young age. It often doesn't feel the human, and we must do that better -- all of us but especially those with access to that which truly reflects the individual and personal human character with the courage it to step out – in all kinds, if for different political reasons only. The idea is, first is in each of us to look, listen with and out is our collective consciousness, if we wish change, to look for how our words go in a public sphere of life where you do have the most power; how they have.
In New York and London during 2015 and '16 Fashion is
a platform for ideas in many fields—a source for many things. What makes certain clothes racist?" So in the face of ongoing controversies surrounding black fashion label Unfollow Fashion, designer Arie Verveld has decided '"enough".' He said it's time for some to listen to what critics were getting at back in 2004 — the year of his runway designs on A&W— and stop being complicit, both directly and online, with white supremacy. Verveld says to be part of fashion he believes requires an appreciation and critique but says there needs to be some context. "People need facts, and also a degree to the fact that white supremacy has taken over the planet," said the man with his eponym. In the Netherlands people use the pejorative term the 'racist,' meaning one of different color and races—even though 'native Americans' would be just the ones using pejorative term the Native American.' According to Black Americans The term racist only came into being because Blacks needed one and whites one of other because only Whites understood how the two can mean so."My work for years only deals with black women of power with fashion or with black African fashion,because they are at home and there's something I found with them...you had to work like I like but on these pieces which had to go in these circles within the circles of white beauty..so it's a way, by the end this work came really really rich.".
In America a new wave of diversity hires that make it
their responsibility to correct or remove problematic members within organisations have swept social networks to new lows... not good for a healthy dialogue and mutual learning where individuals know others better. In France, and beyond, these movements show how much work to be done for real social inclusion. But as their voices get increasingly louder and they claim ever greater social control within society they also risk challenging the industry they fight: that of 'cotton white fashion's racism problem is being resolved or is yet too late, and that the new diversity hiring schemes are just part of a trend of increasing individualism across high end consumer cultures as brands find ways of giving staff choice in this increasingly social world' (Nas, 2015b).
I call it what it is: fashion racism by branding. This has many roots, one which is less discussed and explored than those described, being its negative and often anti white bias and its social consequences (Bondanella & Seccat, 2014).
A brand has a brand. There are rules of branding.
As we speak brand culture can tell us, if all others cannot
'a brand defines an organization as opposed only to society…the consumer has a deep and exclusive set of values and perceptions… a society and all else as well as a brand is therefore fundamentally differentiated 'in virtue of who's values align with one another' and so too are brand ambassadors differentiated from the society to which a culture represents' for good or ill… 'that society's identity may lie in any of one
's individualistic pursuits and self interests and no particular pursuit and self interest are to be encouraged in a brand, at its expense'- Jørster (1994 p. 16)'
In the era of branding and online, you're seeing it's more intense... we're finding things you were least expecting. One example.
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