Fashion should reflect real life. It needs to confront tricky issues, such as the return of the disgraced designer as creative director of Margiela, rather than looking away
Jean-Paul Guerlain, one of France’s foremost perfumers, was fined 6,000 euros over the “negre” racist remarks which were broadcast in 2010. The racist TV comments were said during an interview for France-2 television in which the perfumer explained how hard he worked to create his famous Samsara perfume. Jean-Paul Guerlain used the French term “negre”. … Read more