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    Fashion Icon Marc Jacobs blasted for putting dreadlocks on white models

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...on-uproar.html

    Marc Jacobs has defended the use of dreadlocks in his New York Fashion Week Show, claiming he doesn't see 'color or race' but only 'people'.

    Jacobs came under fire after he cast predominantly white models, including Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, and had them sport huge multicolored wool dreadlocks.

    But the designer said the disapproval is 'nonsense', asking his detractors why they don't 'criticize women of color for straightening their hair'.

    'I respect and am inspired by people and how they look,' he continued in a comment on one of his Instagram pictures of the show.

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    There's a reason they are called "dread" locks

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    Dreadlocks are my least favorite hairstyle. Once I saw a guy whose dreads were so long he stuffed them in a tote bag he carried like a purse over his shoulder!

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    Hairstyle is one thing but there are lots of women of color that try to look whiter than they are or employ that look occasionally. So I really don't see how white women trying to look a bit black is any different unless they do it mockingly.

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    Whites were wearing dreads & fros back in the hippie movement during the counter revolutionary movement- at least here in the Berkeley/SF area. A lot of them never took baths either and lived in communes and on buses

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    Ever since tanned skin, full lips, and braided hair became popular, whites have mimicked black fashion trends, right down to saggy pants.

    It's been going on since the 60's. I'm not at all offended by it. As for black women straightening their hair, it was not done as a fashion statement, it was done to be accepted by the dominate culture that held the power to hire and fire at will if they didn't like your appearance and to be accepted by society as a whole.

    Someone once said, "Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery." I agree.
    When your praise match your prayers, the answer will come.
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    The girl in your avatar has a white air to her appearance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    The girl in your avatar has a white air to her appearance.
    You talking to me?
    When your praise match your prayers, the answer will come.
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    yeah

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    Ever since tanned skin, full lips, and braided hair became popular, whites have mimicked black fashion trends, right down to saggy pants.

    It's been going on since the 60's. I'm not at all offended by it. As for black women straightening their hair, it was not done as a fashion statement, it was done to be accepted by the dominate culture that held the power to hire and fire at will if they didn't like your appearance and to be accepted by society as a whole.

    Someone once said, "Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery." I agree.
    I can see that. I think that's true.

    I would take as a compliment too but I guess some people take it as offense?

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