Katy Perry had to withdraw sandals and leafers depicting eyes, noses and lips from shelves in stores to not injure sensitive buyers. According to the singer, the shoes thought how to tribute to modern art and surrealism. "I was saddened when I learned that it was compared with painful images. We never wanted to hurt anyone, "the star obey. She also added that all the images of the shoe were removed from the official brand site.
@katyperry. Shoe That Is Under Scrutiny for Resembling Blackface is about to be yanked. Thoughts? CC. @Tmz. pic.twitter.com/buagcybeur.
- nasty_csa (@Mevpromotions) February 11, 2019
Perry is far from the only one who had to get rid of the individual elements of the fashion collection. So, Gucci's leadership, last week, withdraws from the stores black jumpers polo with red lips, which have long been associated with caricatures on dark-skinned women. And in December Prada had to get rid of accessories in the form of black monkeys with red lips.
For reference: Initially, Blackfia is the practice of griming white actors under dark-skinned, which existed in the United States in the XIX century, during slavery. Since then the roles of dark-skinned were, mainly caricature, stereotypical, simply humiliating (dark-skinned were depicted as non-unhappy or simply stupid, uncompatible, etc.), historically developed in this way that in modern America, it is thus considered to be made in contemporary America.