The New Black(face)

So, I was doing my daily Style.com stalking of the foreign fashion weeks on Sunday night (it’s a lifestyle choice), and after catching up on Marni and Armani, I got around to the Dolce & Gabbana slides. Their show was characteristically indulgent—a whopping 86 looks unabashedly inspired by mid-century Italian kitsch. Still, I was actually kind of feeling it, until something very ugly showed up about a third of the way through: the first of 10 looks that featured a busy print with a prominent, blackface-y, black face staring out from between some fruits and flowers.

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