thevintagerat:theclotheshorse:
Löwenzahn-Dessous / Dandelion Lingerie
Too beautiful for me to handle.
(Source: beatriceoettinger, via ourheartsareloud)
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I get that it’s tiring and potentially annoying to think about it all the time and I get that sometimes you just want to enjoy something that you find aesthetically beautiful without having to think about race or cultural appropriation or whatever. At the same time, I don’t have a ton of sympathy for people who dismiss or belittle attempts to create dialogue about the role of race in fashion.
… maybe you would rather not think about that or you are offended that this person is implying that you are culturally insensitive and people need to stop being so overly sensitive or whatever, but in the end, is it worth it to be dismissive or is it possible to just try and listen to what the other person has to say for a minute? Is your annoyance over the idea that anyone would even suggest you are insensitive or that you can’t wear whatever you want—is that feeling of annoyance so valuable and important to defend against that it’s actually worth shutting down a conversation about race? My answer is no, obviously.
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Fashion blogger Jenny Zhang (via racebending)
Santoine: This is how I feel every time I look at an editorial. And this is exactly how I feel when top editors give bullshit excuses and explanations for their blatant ignorance and racism. Just as he said, it’s horrible to have to think about cultural appropriation or race when you, as the reader, just want to do is appreciate the creativity, the innovation, and the overall beauty of the spread and fashions included in it.
But, the desensitized respect towards race and cultural is saturated throughout the fashion industry. The industry itself is not very diverse, so it’s hard to not assume that they have homogenous thoughts and feelings towards race and culture.
Like I’ve said before, art is not above reproach. I just wish that there was a top, prolific magazine that was culturally aware and had a diverse set of staff, information, and models within its magazine. I know there are some, but not anytime soon will you see a version of Vogue, Elle, Numeró, whatever that does not mainly subscribe to a eurocentric beauty ideal.
(via stopwhitewashing)
(Source: chictopia.com, via d2fang)
Vogue China March 2012
Wang Xiao, Lily Zhi and Zhao Lei by Lincoln Pilcher
(via fuckyeahchinesefashion)
one of my many not well loved assertions about ‘punk’ fashion is that people of color were influencing punk fashion well before the movement defined itself in the bowery/NYC and later in the UK. photo on the right is from 1970 (new haven, black panthers) and one of the women is wearing a bullet belt - which I’ve heard was solely an invention of punk subculture… I’ve looked over hundreds of photos taken during the late 60s - the early 1970s of Puerto Rican youth subculture in NYC and seen many of the same bricolage/punky fashions that were worn by punks in the late 70s and throughout the 1980s. I can’t really imagine that the art school kids that took credit for conceiving punk were not somehow influenced by the Black and Puerto Rican youths that they were living side by side with.
(via ladyurduja)
(Source: stylites-beijing, via fuckyeahchinesefashion)
Even better (while we’re on the subject of Wong Kar-Wai/In the Mood for Love-inspired editorials): Du Juan and Edward Kadarisman by Vincent Peters for Numero China
(via fuckyeahchinesefashion)
Senegalese model Kinée Diouf for Rue Blanche Winter 2011/2012
bottom right w/ the scarf wrapped around my locs
(Source: cpstyles, via wocsurvivalkit)
