It is not often a sneaker can cause equal parts awe and antipathy, but Balenciaga’s latest limited edition Paris Sneaker release, made of destroyed cotton and rubber, has done just that. The shoe in question, which loosely resembles a Converse All Star, retails for 1,290 pounds (1,850 dollars, 1,450 euros) and is as intentionally distressed and...
May 12, 2022
A fashion campaign by Marni featuring black models styled with ethnic accessories has been widely criticized as racist. The Italian luxury brand quickly came under fire when it posted the photos on its official Instagram account with the caption “jungle mood.” Outed by cancel culture duo Diet Prada, who criticized Marni’s unfortunate combination...
Aug 10, 2020
The duo behind the critically fashion instagram account Diet Prada, the fashion designers copying denounces, is a guest in this podcast episode of The Podcast Barneys. The host em> Noor Tagouri. They know each other: in February 2019 the American Vogue made the mistake of identifying the journalist Noor Tagouri and Pakistani actress Noor...
Apr 20, 2020
Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garcons was at the centre of a cultural appropriation row Sunday after it sent out white models in what appeared to be cornrow wigs at its Paris men's fashion week show. The self-appointed fashion watchdog Diet Prada -- which has a record of pulling up labels on racial insensitivity including the notorious Gucci...
Jan 20, 2020
Every month, FashionUnited selects the most interesting reads about the fashion industry published across American and British news outlets. Here’s what you may have missed this month: “Will success spoil Diet Prada?”, The New York Times Run by Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler, Instagram account Diet Prada is quickly establishing itself as the...
Mar 29, 2019
Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has come under fire for its “DG loves China” advertising campaign -- so much so that its upcoming fashion show in the country has been canceled by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Shanghai. The brand posted a video on the Chinese social network Weibo in which a Chinese woman has trouble trying to eat Italian...
Nov 21, 2018
Diet Prada is an online website that does something that no one in the fashion industry ever dared do before. It names and shames, to use its own tagline, "ppl knocking each other off lol." In an industry that has tacitly accepted a certain ebb and flow of ideas for decades, the only pre-social media authority that might have addressed copying...
Jan 11, 2018
