Scandals including Gucci’s blackface jumper point to colonialist ideas about identity
How culpable is Italy in fashion’s current race crisis? Very, according to black members of the Italian fashion industry.
When the media cites examples of fashion houses co-opting centuries-old racist imagery and making it new (Gucci’s blackface jumper, Prada’s golliwog trinket, Dolce and Gabbana’s pizza advert) one commonality is often overlooked: Gucci, Prada and Dolce & Gabbana are Italian companies.
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