{"id":2266,"date":"2009-01-15T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2009-01-15T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:22:11","slug":"the-new-blackface-of-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"The New Blackface of Fashion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/uki-d_cover.JPG\"  title=\"i-D Magazine goes all out\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/uki-d_cover.JPG\" title=\"i-D Magazine goes all out\" alt=\"i-D Magazine goes all out\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freelance writer, novelist, and screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=699626559\"  target=\"_blank\">Erica Kennedy<\/a>&#8216;s Facebook group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=36954154070\"  target=\"_blank\">Feminista&#8217;s Advertising Hall of Fame (or Lame?)<\/a>, documents the &#8220;best and worst examples of commercial advertising.&#8221; In fact, this winner, above, isn&#8217;t an ad, as <a href=\"http:\/\/americanapparel.net\/presscenter\/dailyupdate\/dailyUp.asp?d=30&amp;t=760\"  target=\"_blank\">American Apparel rushed to make clear<\/a>, shortly after the page ran in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-dmagazine.com\/primary_index.htm\"  target=\"_blank\">i-D Magazine<\/a> back in 2007, but part of that publication&#8217;s own outr\u00e9 fashion pages. (You&#8217;ve gotta be offensive if a scummy advertiser of half-naked immigrant women like AA doesn&#8217;t want anything to do with your editorial.)<\/p>\n<p>Readers who recall my quasi-crusade against <a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=363\"  target=\"_blank\">VOGUE&#8217;s foul LeBron James \/ Gisele Bundchen cover<\/a> almost a year ago aren&#8217;t surprised at the way racist imagery continues to be subsumed into white High Style, and neither am I. However, upon sight of this photo, I have to admit to a flash of weariness. Like, the need to create this stuff never dies, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freelance writer, novelist, and screenwriter Erica Kennedy&#8216;s Facebook group, Feminista&#8217;s Advertising Hall of Fame (or Lame?), documents the &#8220;best and worst examples of commercial advertising.&#8221; In fact, this winner, above, isn&#8217;t an ad, as American Apparel rushed to make clear, shortly after the page ran in i-D Magazine back in 2007, but part of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,46,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}