Chanel Paris-Shanghai Pre-Fall 2010
Are you fucking kidding me with those hats? For a show oriented for the Chinese masses? Fuck you, Karl Lagerfeld. How do people like him get away with this shit ALL THE TIME?
Are you fucking kidding me with those hats? For a show oriented for the Chinese masses? Fuck you, Karl Lagerfeld. How do people like him get away with this shit ALL THE TIME?
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Yeah, I totally know what you mean.
I get the same feeling whenever I see an Asian person wearing jeans, sneakers, suits, ties, etc., basically anything he or she wouldn’t wear for Lunar New Year or on “Culture Day” at school or something.
appropriation ≠ adaptation.
the nice thing about being a hypocrite is being able to define everything away by using intellectually bankrupt and politically charged and motivated sociological “concepts” taken from the detritus of cultural Marxism and postmodernism.
humm i guess he thought he was being ironic in some way. What is it about him using the hats that you find offensive, if you don’t mind me asking?
because that hat is a symbol that’s been used for a long time to mock those of chinese descent, and sometimes on a broader scale, asian descent. it’s stereotypical and a lazy shorthand to represent chinese-ness, which is what he’s doing here for the paris-shanghai show. he’s never used this hat and he probably will not use these hats for his regular shows in paris or milan, but he chooses to use them in this setting.
when you put it like that i can see where your anger stems, its annoying when people try and summarise a culture or a nation in this way. its like one step forwards two back.
Another reason I don’t like Karl Lagerfeld. The first being when he said people don’t want to see curvy women (they much prefer to see bones dangling on the street, obviously Lagerfeld’s brain is a tad distorted).
The hats are traditionally Vietnamese, but are only used as “Chinese” in references old charactures.
The show also has a “China Doll” as a purse, and a line referencing the Maoist era (in which 10-70 million people died).