Blackface during Tokyo fashion week
CVK
What better way to start off your Monday than with some blackface runway stylings? I spotted this over at TrendyNation, from Taisha Nobukuni’s show at Tokyo Fashion Week.
Related posts: Is blackface in Japan racist? and Blackface outside the U.S.
Kaonashi wrote:
What. The HELL?
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 8:44 pm ¶
Sabrina wrote:
what can you expect of the Fashion industry? They will exploit ANYTHING just to see overpriced clothing! I don’t even pay attention to any of that crap anymore because most of it is so stupid and pretentious…but this “blackface” thing really takes the cake. HUMPH!
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 7:34 am ¶
mtevc wrote:
there were a number of japanese products in japan with the “coon” imagery or blackface icons…from toothpaste and more…and this was only a few years ago
Posted 13 Sep 2006 at 7:43 pm ¶
Ajax wrote:
That’s true but there are less and less products out like that because someone showed a Japanese company some American products of a buck-toothed, coke bottle glasses wearing Japanese caricature and they didn’t like it so much, I think they saw the point. As for the black face, when I was in japan it was not a racist thing, a lot of the younger japanese wish they were black.
Posted 14 Sep 2006 at 9:11 am ¶