Giorgio Armani Slams Designers for Risqué Ads: 'Many Women Feel Pressured - That for Me Is Rape'
i put fellow fashion designers on blast for pressuring models to pose for provocative and risqué shoots.
“There is so much talk about women being raped, but women today are regularly ‘raped’ by designers,” Armani, 85, said backstage after his show on Friday, according to. The outlet reports that the designer was explaining how many models in the industry feel pushed to wear garments not necessarily appropriate for their age.
“I am thinking of certain ads where women are shown in a provocative way, half naked, and many women feel pressured into looking like that. That for me is rape. It’s unbefitting,” the designer continued.Armani also had a message to fashion journalists, urging them to speak with designers’ about their collections rather than trying to pigeonhole their runway looks into trend buckets.
“I am tired of hearing about trends. They are nothing. I want to improve the woman who lives now. There’s all this musing about the past as a trend, but I don’t agree with it at all,” he urged. “So please stop writing about trends.” he urged the journalists assembled backstage for a briefing about the collection. “Write about what [Alessandro] Michele did at Gucci, what Miuccia Prada did at Prada and what I am doing, but let’s not play this game.
He concluded with: “Look around, they think that by wearing black leggings and a bomber they become modern. Excuse my outburst and the strong words, but I felt like I had to say this.”
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