Lisa Charleyboy: One fashion designer finally gets it right


A look from designer Walter Van Beirendonck. Photo from stellabugbee on Twitter

Lisa Charleyboy says one fashion designer has finally gotten in right when it comes to Indian imagery on the runway and on the shelves:
This week things got hot again on the runway circuit, but this time it was more circumstance than pomp.

Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck sent male models dressed in feather headdresses in his Fall 2014 show during Menswear fashion week in Paris.

But wait, before we get up in arms, we can plainly see that Van Beirendonck got his messaging in loud and clear.

Akin to something we’d see in a Kenneth Cole runway in the decades past, he used his runway for social commentary. His blatant signs bring to light the laundry list of cultural appropriation that we’ve seen these last few years.

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