Remember that time Vogue Italia featured a pair of African-inspired hoop earrings on their website but skipped all the politically correct names and instead described them as "Slave Earrings"? Yeaaa. That didn't go over so well with most of the world and the mag's EIC Franca Sozzani caught a bunch of flack for the "translation mishap." Fashionista's Leah Chernikoff caught up with Iman earlier this week to discuss her "Global Chic" collection for HSN and being that the supermodel is a woman of color, inquired about her feelings on the now-infamous "Slave Earrings" blunder.
This is what Iman had to say:
"I’m a huge fan of Franca Sozzani and Vogue Italia’s website because they have a whole section on black models," she said. "Is it controversial? Yes. The naming of it, I don’t get it. I sometimes wonder in this age of reality shows has it become part of the language–the more controversy the more [buzz] it creates. But yeah, I didn’t like it. Slave does not make it ethnic. Mind you, it’s not lost in translation–the word slave, we know what it is. They might as well have called them “n***** earrings.” For somebody like Franca Sozzani, who did that whole black issue for Vogue, somebody should have said something."
Do you think Iman's reaction is justified? Talk back below.
"I’m a huge fan of Franca Sozzani and Vogue Italia’s website because they have a whole section on black models," she said. "Is it controversial? Yes. The naming of it, I don’t get it. I sometimes wonder in this age of reality shows has it become part of the language–the more controversy the more [buzz] it creates. But yeah, I didn’t like it. Slave does not make it ethnic. Mind you, it’s not lost in translation–the word slave, we know what it is. They might as well have called them “n***** earrings.” For somebody like Franca Sozzani, who did that whole black issue for Vogue, somebody should have said something."
Do you think Iman's reaction is justified? Talk back below.
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