Sunday, September 30, 2012
Victoria's Secret Geisha Lingerie Sparks Controversy
Women must not look Japanese?
It takes hundreds of employees, thousands of hours and millions of dollars to launch a mass market lingerie line. And one blogger to take it all down.
"I never thought they would pull the Geisha outfit off the market," Nina Jacinto tells Shine. "I imagine there were a number of factors that went into that decision."
Two weeks ago, Jacinto, a 26-year-old Bay Area blogger and non-profit development manager, most likely became one of those factors.
"I saw a link to [Victoria's Secret's Go East] line on the blog, Angry Asian Man," she says. "Hooray for exotic orientalist bull----," wrote the blogger who included a link to the "Asian-inspired" lingerie line's centerpiece: "The Sexy Little Geisha," a mesh teddy that comes with an obi belt, chopsticks and a fan.
Immediately Jacinto sat down to write an insightful post on why she found the outfit, and the line in general, offensive. "It's the kind of overt racism masked behind claims of inspired fashion and exploring sexual fantasy that makes my skin crawl," she wrote
[It doesn't take much to make her skin crawl. Maybe she has some disease]
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4 comments:
The fact that they took it down over one little complaint is pathetic.
[It doesn't take much to make her skin crawl. Maybe she has some disease]
She does John, it's called liberalism.
8:53 - that's one thing that you will never get.
That picture of Candice Swanepoel in the campaign is AMAZING.
I, for one, would not complain if she was not wearing the sexy, oriental-inspired outfit.
Back to the story - the outfit had some oriental themes, but so what?
Next you will be cry outrage over white people wearing kimonos.
I don't care if Victoria's Secret wants to use slouch hats in a campaign.
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