Controversy

Victoria's Secret Controversy

Short Report on the Controversy

In the recent Victoria's Secret Catwalk show(2012) their was a bit of controversy. In the show their are lots of different themes such as circus, cheerleader girls etc. One of the themes for Thanksgiving was model; Karlie Kloss as a native american. This caused a lot of controversy and has had alot of backlash since the show. Model still went down the catwalk like normal however ever year the catwalk show is then shown on television and streamed online a month later. But because of all the controversy Victoria Secret Decided not to show this model and took this look out of the show.

This outfit was criticised because of it's ignorance reference to tribal culture and it's history, it wasn't really criticised cause of the whole outfit the main thing people were offended by was the head dress. A head dress is associated with very honourable men and are a symbol of respect worn by native war chiefs and warriors. It does also have religious references. Alot of people said they were 'disgusted' by the images of the model wearing the head dress. Victoria  Secret has apologised for offending people and this segment in the show will not be broadcasted, this is their offical statement "We are sorry that the American Indian headdress replica used in our recent fashion show has upset individuals. We sincerely apologise as we absolutely had no intention to offend anyone. Out of respect, we will not be including the outfit in any broadcast, marketing materials nor in any other way." Model;Karlie Kloss has also apologised on twitter saying; deeply sorry if what I wore during the VS Show offended anyone." It's got me thinking, sometimes does fashion go too far, so what do you think?