a l'allure garconniere

okapidreams:

thugzmansion:

harinef:

SO I UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU’RE GOING TO ROCK SOMETHING WHICH MEANS SOMETHING VERY SPECIFIC TO ANOTHER CULTURE OR ANOTHER PEOPLE, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE PUTTING ON YOUR BODY

BUT AT THE SAME TIME—LIKE—IS AN APPROPRIATION-FREE WARDROBE FOR A WHITE AMERICAN LIKE ME JUST WEARING AMERICAN EAGLE ALL THE TIME

FOR EXAMPLE: I WEAR BINDIS SOMETIMES BECAUSE THEY’VE RECENTLY ENTERED THE FASHION CONSCIOUSNESS AND I LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK; I ALSO WEAR BINIDIS BECAUSE I WAS ENCOURAGED TO WEAR ONE EVERY DAY WHEN I WENT TO INDIA IN 2010 BY THE PEOPLE I MET THERE (IT IS A CULTURAL TRADITION THAT IS SAID TO FOSTER PRESENCE AND FOCUS IN THE WEARER)

WHERE DOES CONTEXT INTERSECT WITH CULTURE IN THESE CASES TO MAKE SOMETHING OKAY OR NOT OKAY

seriously? that’s sad that you are so boring and won’t accept the blandness of your culture instead of ripping off of other people.

Ingrid Sischy - fashion writer the new yorker editor in chief interview

Dialogue from Unzipped 1995
“people are saying Gaultiers gone too far, now he’s done the thing about Hasidic Jews and now you know Jews are going to be upset and people are going to say this is a sacred thing and I completely completely disagree and I think that what was so fantastic about it and what is so fantastic about Gaultier is how he incorporates politics and culture into his fashion. i think to take something that none of us understand necessarily and mix it up and incorporate it into the culture and show all sorts of different people wearing it is a way of removing strife and i think that was really great. “

Its the same conversation thats been happening forever.  & really the same sort of nonsensical defense gets made all the time. seriously if you cant find a way to be fashionable without being culturally appropriating then you’re not very talented. Just because everyone is re-doing everything about the 90s doesn’t mean you have to jump on that band wagon and make the same mistakes fashion did back then. Fashion is about forward thinking and listening to people and respecting what is being said by poc should be a part of that projection & growth.