QuoteThe style director of Brazilian Vogue has resigned after her 50th birthday party was criticised for evoking themes of slavery.
Donata Meirelles hosted the lavish dinner party last Friday in Bahia, northeastern Brazil.
But the event sparked an online backlash after a guest posted a photograph on Instagram showing Meirelles, who is white, seated on an elaborate throne surrounded by black women in traditional white dress.
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Rita Batista, a Brazilian black television presenter, re-posted the photograph alongside a similarly arranged image from 1860, also taken in Bahia, to demonstrate why Meirelles' party was so offensive to the region's black population.
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'There appears to be a Brazilian slave and master theme,' she wrote on Twitter.
'Mucamas (house slaves) who were very clearly darker complexioned, were posed as props alongside guests. The uniform of the Mucamas, house slaves, was usually a white linen or cotton dress.'
Christie, who now hosts a podcast discussing the cultural impact blackness has had on the fashion world, wrote that the white dresses and headwraps worn by the black women at Meirelles' party were 'not coincidental'.
To demonstrate, Christie uploaded photographs of Brazilian female slaves from the 19th century in similar costume.
'Brazil did not outlaw slavery until 1888, almost the 20th century. Brazil, not America, has the largest population of people of African decent living outside of Africa - By 1888 Brazil had 40% of the total slave population in the Americas,' she added.
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But if those women beside her were white women in that garb there would be a problem..
Not invoking slavery
Quote from: BowDown on February 15, 2019, 10:37:46 AM
But if those women beside her were white women in that garb there would be a problem..
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Quote from: BowDown on February 15, 2019, 10:37:46 AM
But if those women beside her were white women in that garb there would be a problem..
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