Oct 23, 2012

Azealia Banks Calls Out Dolce & Gabbana for Being "Racist"



 

Known for her Twitter beef, female MC Azealia Banks recently took to the social media site to voice her disgust with the new collection from fashion label Dolce & Gabbana.

The controversy started last month when the Italian designers premiered their Spring 2013 collection during Milan Fashion Week.


The D&G models embraced the runway wearing colorful garments and earrings with images of very dark-skinned black women that resembled the "
mammy" figure of the slave era.

To add fuel to the fire, the representation of black models wearing the designs were slim to none.



D&G Spring 2013 collection:




 


To justify the collection, D&G
claimed that the innovation came from their Sicilian roots and the first Africans to settle in Sicily.

Despite the designers reasoning, Banks, who name drops D&G in her "Van Vogue" track, used Twitter to label the collection as "racist."


Definitely boycotting Dolce & Gabanna.


— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 21, 2012



Whoever designed that racist ass Dolce and Gabanna collection needs a swift kick in the mouth and a big d*** up the ass.

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 21, 2012



I really hate when people do corny, racist things then try to justify it as "art."

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 21, 2012



It's all just really unnecessary. the clothes in the collection were fine without all the "black mammie" imagery.

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 21, 2012

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