Dolce & Gabbana and Miley Cyrus

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Happy 27th birthday to Miley Cyrus who was born on November 23, 1992. 

Not a fan, per se, but I do notice when  Miley says something outrageous, or her personal life is in the limelight (eg, recent divorce from Liam Hemsworth after only 7 months of marriage, how sad! And there are several PETS involved, even sadder).




A couple of years back, Miley  ruffled the feathers of Stefano Gabbana when she criticized fashion house, D & G's (Dolce & Gabbana) politics. Gabbana's response?

We are Italian and we don’t care about politics and mostly neither about the American one! We make dresses and if you think about doing politics with a post it’s simply ignorant. We don’t need your posts or comments so next time please ignore us!! 

Right on, Stefano!  May the Hollywood elitist follow your example of doing what you do best (fashion) and stop meddling in Politics.

Mrs Trump dressed in D&G for her official White House portrait
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 white and navy dress by Dolce & Gabbana pc: (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

smiley Miley was once so wholesome

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:

 but a woman that feareth the Lord,

 she shall be praised.

Proverbs 31

AKA Destiny Hope Cyrus

Liam Hemsworth

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's Personal Zoo

D&G: Miley is Ignorant

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Designer: Marc Jacobs

Loved the years he was with Louis Vuitton!

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Marc Jacobs

Fashion designer MARC JACOBS (Louis Vuitton,  1997-2014) condemned political correctness in a speech at Oxford University in response to criticisms he received last year over his decision to dress white models in dreadlocks.

Jacobs spoke to around 400 students at Oxford University, arguing that it is very dangerous to say: “You can’t use this, you can’t look at that, you can’t borrow from that, you can’t be inspired by that.”

“You know, ‘stay in your own lane.’ I don’t really understand that mentality and I think it’s a very dangerous way of thinking,” he said.

Jacobs was criticized last year during Fashion Week for featuring white models in dreadlocks, a hairstyle that is typically associated with black culture. “I didn’t feel like I was doing anything wrong. I was expressing myself – these were my references and my reasons for being inspired to do it,” Jacobs argued.

In response to criticism, Jacobs has doubled down, arguing that political correctness is dangerous to creativity. “I felt attacked for doing something that I thought was my right to do,” he said. “I do feel that creative people shouldn’t have any kind of border control on what it’s okay to look at, what it’s okay to be inspired by, so I stand by that.”

Jacobs was speaking alongside Edward Enninful, the first black male editor of British Vogue magazine. Enninful told students that he has no problem with cultural appropriation as long as the original culture is given credit.

“If someone appropriates something, as long as they give credit where it’s from and give the history of where it’s from, I’m completely fine with it,” he argued. “If you are going to appropriate, just credit the original.”

by Tom Ciccotta

Link:
Danger of Political Correctness

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