http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/09/09/american-apparel-goes-native/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:08:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/09/09/american-apparel-goes-native/#comment-1317 twotimes Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:19:54 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/?p=489#comment-1317 I'm thrilled to find another blog commenting about this (I first heard about this new line on feministing) This shit is just disgustingly racist and sexist. Aftica=skinny white chick wearing zebra prints and non-descript tribal print. How exotic. And ethnocentric. I’m thrilled to find another blog commenting about this (I first heard about this new line on feministing) This shit is just disgustingly racist and sexist. Aftica=skinny white chick wearing zebra prints and non-descript tribal print. How exotic. And ethnocentric.

]]> http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/09/09/american-apparel-goes-native/#comment-1316 Jewel Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:14:07 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/?p=489#comment-1316 I enjoy your blog. Found it while googling through images of "Black artists" who live in Brooklyn. As for that image above, blonde hair and African prints don't mix well. It doesn't look stylish, just messy and rather forced--like ocean blue contacts on most Black folk. And you are correct to note that the image lacks authentic African flavor. While it is a designer's right to be creative, they must realize that what they are creating NOW could never match the beauty that was designed over thousands of years of noncommercial artistry. I enjoy your blog. Found it while googling through images of “Black artists” who live in Brooklyn. As for that image above, blonde hair and African prints don’t mix well. It doesn’t look stylish, just messy and rather forced–like ocean blue contacts on most Black folk. And you are correct to note that the image lacks authentic African flavor. While it is a designer’s right to be creative, they must realize that what they are creating NOW could never match the beauty that was designed over thousands of years of noncommercial artistry.

]]> http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/09/09/american-apparel-goes-native/#comment-1315 Bq Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:31:08 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/?p=489#comment-1315 on top of everything else, it is incredibly fug. on top of everything else, it is incredibly fug.

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