h&m controversy
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Moschino USA Sued for Racial Profiling: Store Manager Accused of Labeling Black Customers ‘Serenas’
Oh, the irony: Mere months after Moschino dropped a heavily hip-hop-influenced collection with H&M (who experienced its own major racial gaffe around this time last year), the Italian luxury label’s U.S. arm is being sued for racial profiling and discrimination by a former employee. As reported by TMZ, Shamael Lataillade, a black Haitian-American woman who…
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Now They’re Just Trolling Us: An Italian Beauty Company Gets In on the Racist Branding Trend
Fellow black folks, our collective outrage is clearly proving very lucrative because trolls keep trolling, and fashion and beauty companies keep trying it with racially insensitive marketing. Hot on the heels of H&M’s absolutely irresponsible and boycott-inducing use of a black boy to market a sweatshirt proclaiming him the “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle,” Italian…
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H&M Hires ‘Diversity Leader’ After Global Backlash to the Racist Monkey Hoodie
Fashion retailer H&M, more than a week after a photo of a black boy in a “coolest monkey in the jungle” hoodie caused an international backlash, announced Wednesday that the company has appointed a diversity leader. The Swedish-based company announced its decision on its Facebook page: The recent incident was entirely unintentional, but it demonstrates…
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Parents of H&M Model Speak Out on Monkey Hoodie Controversy: ‘Everybody Should Respect Different Opinions Based on Racism’
The parents of Liam Mango, the young black boy who was pictured in a racist H&M hoodie featuring the phrase “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle,” have publicly spoken out about the massive backlash that the clothing brand, as well as their own family, has received in the aftermath. The boy’s mother, Terry Mango, doubled down…
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H&M South Africa Closes All Stores After Activists Trash Stores Over ‘Monkey’ Ad
Updated Sunday, Jan. 14, 2017, 9:15 a.m. EST: H&M has decided to temporarily close all of its stores in South Africa amid protests that have seen several of its stores ransacked by protesters upset at a recent racist ad. CNN reports that H&M has 17 locations in South Africa. “We continue to monitor the situation…
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The Opposite of ‘Monkey’ Isn’t ‘Royalty’; It’s ‘Human’
Fashion brand H&M raised the ire of many when it released a racist ad of a young black boy in a green hoodie with “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle” inscribed on the front. The ad sparked immediate backlash on social media and prompted boycotts of the Swedish retailer. Even one of its celebrity spokesmen, the…
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Jesse Williams Blasts H&M Over Monkey Sweatshirt
H&M is catching it from all sides since social media discovered a little black boy modeling a monkey sweatshirt on its website. So far, the Weeknd and rapper G-Eazy have ended their partnerships with the company, and several other celebrities and athletes have called out H&M over its racist ad. Now Jesse Williams has a…
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When You Look at Us, Make Sure You See Glory: Diddy and LeBron James Respond to Racist H&M Photo
Two of the world’s most powerful, renowned and affluent black men, LeBron James and Sean “Diddy” Combs, took to social media Monday to share uplifting images of the black child model featured in a racist photo from an H&M site. On his Instagram account Monday night, King James posted an image of the black boy…
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And Just Like That, We Turned Pain Into Power
After seeing shots of the little boy in that heinous H&M shirt that declared him the “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle,” I almost immediately began to see images of him remixed and reimagined. All day, new looks came down my timeline—not of this little boy in a shirt that degraded him, but with spinning crowns…