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Korean Designer Uses Blackface at Paris Fashion Week: Racism or Artful Expression?

Korean Designer, Lie Sang Bond is stirring up controversy as he becomes the latest designer to use white models with brown painted faces in his runway show. During Paris Fashion Week, Bond presented his Fall 2012 Ready to Wear collection with 39 different looks wherein each model had the same brown painted circle covering a…

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Grace Jones, Chaka Khan, Sister Sledge and Gloria Gaynor Perform at Etam Fashion Show for Paris Fashion Week

Grace Jones, Chaka Khan, Sister Sledge and Gloria Gaynor took to the stage at Etam’s Couture fashion show during Paris Fashion Week for an all-out, diva-filled extravaganza. The timeless icons turned the show into a disco era-celebration, performing hits while models, rocking pink afro wigs and sparkling lingerie inspired by the 70s, stormed the catwalk. The…