The Jiggarati

I hope you’re being sarcastic.  I skimmed through the article and stopped when I got to this paragraph.

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It is not just a handful of genetically gifted young women who are hurt by this exclusion. Vast numbers of consumers draw their information about fashion and identity from runways, along with cues about what, at any given moment, the culture decrees are the new contours of beauty and style.

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And therein lies the problem.  Fashion media is way too fucking fickle for ANYONE to look to for a definition of beauty, much less identity.

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Black folks are trend setters and set the standard for what is cool; always have been, always will be.  Then other people come along and steal our ideas and market them  to the masses, leaving us scratching our heads trying to figure out how the culture got raped……..AGAIN.   It’s not by accident that you can find someone in the furthest corner of Asia wearing their pants sagging below their ass and listening to 50 but Unitees fashion and Rakim can’t catch a deal.

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Fuck commercial, cookie cutter fashion.  We need to focus on how to market our ideas, encourage black enterprise, and study really really hard to make sure we know what to do with the money when it starts rolling in.