Prada pulls monkeylike products after 'blackface imagery' backlash

[SummerMadness]

Prada pulls monkeylike products after 'blackface imagery' backlash

Italian luxury fashion label Prada is pulling a controversial product line that many have called "racist"” and said depicts "blackface imagery."

The new "Pradamalia" collection of wallets, jewelry and trinkets is part of what Prada calls "a new family of mysterious tiny creatures that are one part biological, one part technological, all parts Prada." The collection also features a $500 "Otto-Toto" monkeylike keychain with dark brown skin and large lips.

I don't know what's more scandalous, the blackface or a keychain that costs $500.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Looks like a sock monkey, I wonder if they are next.

 

[Lost4words]

Pathetic! Utterly pathetic. Racist? Really? What a joke.

 

[RDKirk]

That picture doesn't show the human-blackface products that had been on display.

Yes, the store should have known better.

But Prada won't notice my boycott, inasmuch as I wasn't going to buy anything there anyway.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Even The Devil wears Prada…

 

[SummerMadness]

That picture doesn't show the human-blackface products that had been on display.

Yes, the store should have known better.

But Prada won't notice my boycott, inasmuch as I wasn't going to buy anything there anyway.

As I said, the bigger scandal may be the $500 keychain. When keychains are $500, I don't need to look at your other products.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I’ll take Hugo Boss any day, I have a Hugo armband from 1938 that I hear is coming back in style.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Looks like a sock monkey, I wonder if they are next.

Or the Paul Frank monkey.

 

[Hank77]

Pathetic! Utterly pathetic. Racist? Really? What a joke.

You did even look at the article did you? Look at a couple of the photos there.

 

[Dave-W]

Even The Devil wears Prada…

Actually his “Prada” was fake Pravda.

And that’s the truth.

 

[Lost4words]

You did even look at the article did you? Look at a couple of the photos there.

I did

 

[Hank77]

I did

There is at least one photo of what is obviously not a monkey and likely a second.

 

[USincognito]

I don't know what's more scandalous, the blackface or a keychain that costs $500.

The blackface is idiotic and insensitive. The $500 is insanity.

Looks like a sock monkey, I wonder if they are next.

The one attached to the backpack does, but the two in the upper right photo look much more minstrely to me.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

{snip}Prada pulls monkeylike products after 'blackface imagery' backlash

I don't know what's more scandalous, the blackface or a keychain that costs $500.

I don't like the use of blackface imagery any more just as I don't like racist redface caricatures of the Indian sports mascots. And who on earth would pay $500 for a keychain anyway? That's crazy.

 

[Paidiske]

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