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Kim Kardashian has responded to the criticism she received after posting a photo to promote her new makeup line, KKW Beauty. The ‘Keeping Up With K...
That was nearly a decade ago. Since then we've seen Katy in Egyptian drag, Katy in cornrows, Katy as a geisha -- all to add colour, flair and kitsch value to her material. "I didn't know that I did it wrong until I heard people saying that I did it wrong," she says, softly, in her interview with Deray, "I may never understand... but I can educate myself, and that's what I'm trying to do along the way."
A makeup artist has been criticised for posting a photo of a beauty look that appeared to transform a white model into a woman of a different race. T...
In my post, I wrote "enchanted by the exotic double rebozo" to exemplify my ignorance. An old school friend drew my attention to the controversy and global campaign to #TakeBackTheRebozo. The irony is obvious: my ignorance has led me to confront the Euro-centric British English of my own lexis.
Chanel has responded to criticism they’ve received for a boomerang design, which has prompted accusations of cultural appropriation. As part of th...
We are used to clothing defining us. You only have to pick up most mainstream magazines to be told that the brand, the fabric, the cut of the clothing and how you wear it make an instant impression.
The funniest part of the cover is that most Westerns always talk about how oppressing hijab must be and how we, Muslim women, need to be freed from such oppression, but the first thing they decide to put in a photo-shoot to look artistic and ethnic is our hijab.
It is sometimes hard to judge what counts as positive, educated influence, and what strays into the territory of appropriation, but it is an extremely important distinction to make.
Victoria’s Secret has been accused of cultural appropriation over lingerie in its 2016 Fashion Show. In an article titled ‘Why Can’t Victoria’...
A British model has called out a magazine dedicated to black beauty for putting her on the cover when she is not of black heritage. Emily Bador, from ...
I'm a fiction writer, and yet when people ask me what I write about, I go speechless - I stutter, stumble and nervously laugh off the question. Because there isn't a label or a pithy description which I can comfortably reel off, there isn't only one idea that I'm interested in; fiction is a freedom I don't wish to circumscribe. And yet, I can see a sentence already sitting in their heads, just waiting for me to speak it...
I absolutely agree that we should celebrate the rising voices and confidence of the people in our society who have been marginalised, sometimes victimised and often ignored. But it is true that a large cross-section of people on the left - of every race, religion and social class - have become increasingly narrow-minded and shrill.
Marc Jacobs has been accused of cultural appropriation at his New York Fashion Week show. Jacobs sent models - including Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid and K...
The best thing about going to a music festival (apart from the dancing and the drinking) is being able to embrace your style in a way that would not r...
"You might not think that these two interests, capturing animals and writing poems, have much in common. But the more I think back the more sure I am ...
Fashion brand Free People has been accused of cultural appropriation after releasing a Native American-inspired festival collection. Native headdresse...
Cultural appropriation is ever present in human society and has brought tremendous benefits to humanity. All cultures appropriate and are themselves appropriated. Great advances in science, the arts and technology have come from taking and borrowing from other cultures. Keep your new dreads, Mr Bieber, I think they look fine. Down let these new Puritans drag you down.
Last week in the United States, the spectre of identity politics reared its ugly head once more, as a white student at San Francisco State University ...
Asking people as a matter of courtesy to be sensitive to issues of cultural appropriation is one thing. Laying this request out as a demand that people conform with unchallengeable rules of behaviour is a quite another.
The furore over Justin Bieber's new dreadlocks has enflamed new debate around the sensitivities of cultural appropriation. The Canadian singer's new h...
Freedom is important and freedom is a world I'm working towards, I hope everyone else is too. Freedom is likely what the girl in the video wants too. We all need understanding to combat the circumstances that make her and many others so frustrated, so things like dreads won't matter anymore.
An American university is investigating a physical confrontation between two people over the alleged 'cultural appropriation' of dreadlocks. In a vira...
Being able to read the atmosphere around you is a valuable and difficult skill to master, and this is doubly true when you're travelling abroad. Cultural norms are often subtle and slippery creatures, but as a traveller, your job is to suck it up and adapt.
Kendall Jenner was announced as the face of Mango's spring 2016 collection this week, but the new campaign is causing some serious controversy The ...
Still, as we watch the 2016 political scene unfold and seek to understand the rationale for the many puzzling things which we will see about us, we should bear in mind that the question of who is sitting in the butter is as relevant to understanding public life as it is to understanding commerce.
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