Image via fashionista.comToday I was doing my usual blog flipping and I saw this picture on Fashionista.com. In honor of the Stephen Sprouse for Louis Vuitton collection being released they're spray painting the store front to resemble the graffiti from the actual collection. Now here's where my mind began to twist. It's amazing how urban culture influences high fashion but yet "they" and the industry still shuns urban fashion as not " good enough" because it isn't vogue. The previous Sprouse collection was amazing, and I'm no racist, but I can't help but wonder if an African American designer produced a collection with graffiti spackled on every piece, would it receive the same amount of praise and hype Marc Jacobs is receiving right now, or would it flop and be condemned by the fashion police? Just wondering.
3 comments:
I doubt there would be an African American designer producing a collection for Louis Vuitton. Lets just appreciate the house's admiration for our culture.
I think as black people even nowadays we are not valid untill the ruling class says we are. We go out and write about, and buy, and praise, and imulate these high fashion brands that do not embrase us at all. The will rape a culture and make a mickery of it and we still lust after these possesions. Hell no if a black designer did it it would not be in high regard. And pharrel , an african american, has designed some pieces for the house. As a people in order to catch up we have to be able to unify and branch off all at the same time. The day you see a black male in a prada or dior ad is the day when these designers see us as vital and not porchmonkeys that hang on to their every thread. Equal representation. Even if we don't buy it in quantities that others may we sure do give a hell of a lot of free advertising in rap songs.
There is nothing racial involved in this campaign. The only reason big name designers can get away with certain risks, is because they are well known. It is true that an african american designer most likely won't get the same praise for such urban display, because most of America does not support the urban culture. How can you have influence on the masses, if the masses are not supporting you? People easily buy into things, when someone has a reputable name.
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