Burberry apologizes for a fashion statement that resembled a noose: Wednesday Wake-Up Call
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Another week, another startlingly bad choice by a luxury brand. Burberry sent a model out into the runway in a hoodie with drawstrings that resembled a noose. After criticism, Burberry apologized and pulled the item, CNN reports. “We are deeply sorry for the distress caused by one of the products that featured in our A/W 2019 runway collection,” Marco Gobbetti, Burberry chief executive officer, said in a statement to CNN. The brand added that the knot had been meant to nod at a nautical theme in the collection. The apology came after model Liz Kennedy, who appeared in the runway show, made her concerns public on social media: “It is beyond me how you could let a look resembling a noose hanging from a neck out on the runway,” she wrote. Her Instagram post mentioned rising suicide rates, and she added: “Let’s not forget about the horrifying history of lynching either.” The backlash comes after Prada and Gucci made designs that reminded people of blackface. When does this end?
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