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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