{"id":16223,"date":"2019-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smarteventi.it\/gucci-fashion-racism.html"},"modified":"2019-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"gucci-fashion-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.smarteventi.it\/en\/gucci-fashion-racism.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gucci and D&G scandal. Is Italian fashion racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just when Dolce & Gabbana looked like they were going down in history as the greatest embarrassment in the Italian fashion world, someone in the Gucci headquarters decided to top their effort. Between the end of 2018 and the early 2019, Italian fashion brands woke up to the uneasy realisation that they have a racism problem<\/strong>. How and when did this start? How did this issue manage to stay under the radar for so long, at a time when identity politics are centre-stage pretty much everywhere else? And, most importantly, what will the fashion industry do about it?
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In case you have been lucky enough to live under a rock for the past year or so, here\u2019s a quick recap of the two racism scandals that have inflamed the Italian fashion industry over the past few months. In November 2018, Dolce & Gabbana released a commercial targeted on the Chinese market<\/strong><\/a>. The video was so eye-wateringly racist and sexist that we decided not to share it in this post. We are sharing instead the cringe-making apology video that the two Italian designers were forced to make after their sales dropped spectacularly on one of the largest and richest markets of the world.
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