Fashion hacs been weaponised. And the fashion industry has been all but silent.
In the days since white nationalists marched in Charlottesville and President Donald Trump asserted that some “very fine people” walked shoulder-to-shoulder with them, corporate CEOs have issued statements of protest and bolted from White House panels. Artists fled the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and three of the five Kennedy Center Honors recipients said they might skip the traditional White House pre-gala reception, prompting the president and first lady to cancel it.
Lawmakers have contradicted the president over his remarks, late-night comedians have delivered scathing commentary, and prominent actors and athletes have expressed outrage.
But the fashion industry has said very little.
Read the full article by Robin Givhan at the Sydney Morning Herald.