Italian Fashion Brand Under Fire For Stupidly Racist ‘Jungle Mood’ Campaign With Black Models
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perezhilton.comApparently, racist fashion campaigns are still en vogue despite the increased awareness of systemic racism in the world. The latest culprit of this reductive marketing is Italian brand Marni, which got heat for its new SS20 campaign that featured Black models posing next to brassy text reading “jungle mood,” “tribal amulet,” and “barefoot in the jungle” among others.
While the entire spread was dripping with problematic optics — with the models styled in ethnic accessories including wood necklaces from the Philippines, Caribbean woven grass hats, and other wooden jewelry (none of which are Marni, btw) — some of the since-deleted images on the brand’s Instagram account are downright disturbing; including a picture that showed a link of
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