Victoria’s Secret Does It Again…Again.

November 9th, 2012 by Joseph

And wouldn’t that make more sense than choosing to make leopard-skin panties really pop with imagery that has nothing to do with sex or leopards? I die. For more than one reason, in fact. I was going to call this article Victoria’s Secret Does It Again, but we already have a post with that title published less than two months ago.

I know Nene, I know.

This time, instead of offending a continent across the globe, they’re offending people native to this country. Way to keep it local, guys. Question for Victoria’s Secret: When will you (not Can you) apologize? And another question: Will you hire me, Terry Schwartz, and/or Nina Jacinto to look at your sketches beforehand? Or someone else–anyone? Because this is repeat publicity you don’t want.

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  • Holly James

    Thats what happens when you hire boring designers. They rape and pillage an entire culture for ideas. Lemme shed some schooling for Vicky’s Secrets: there are 550+ tribes in this country and only a handful wear a war bonnet. And seeing as how 1 in 3 Native American and First Nations women are the victims of sexual violence (last I checked of which was committed 82% of the time by NON-Native persons), and that they are 5 times more likely to die a violent death (i.e. rape and murder), we sure would appreciate them not hyper-sexualizing our people for their gain.

    Thanx!!!!! Or, since they’re so into Native ways, Ill say Wado, Hy’shka, Aho, Miigwitch…

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  • Arthur Sanchez-León

    ‘…amalgam of a cavewoman and “Sexy Pocahontas”’

    I just wanted to add that I read the animal print as being jaguar rosettes; the jaguar being an animal culturally important, even today, to many peoples native to Mesoamerica. So it is even more problematic that VS seems to be conflating and essentializing multiple indigenous cultures at once.

  • Anonymous

    Aww… Snoop. I might have to do a followup post. The month of endless pillaging?

  • Anonymous

    This is what happens when capitalism is what you live inside of. We can rage and complain to no end, but Victoria’s Secret does not give a poop about human beings who are not at the top of Victoria’s Secret. Because it’s a macrobusiness in a neoliberal capitalist world. And therefore it exists within a narrative of imperialism and racism, and depends upon this narrative for it’s own survival, because the narrative perpetuates the system.

  • Anonymous

    This is what happens when capitalism is what you live inside of. We can rage and complain to no end, but Victoria’s Secret does not give a poop about human beings who are not at the top of Victoria’s Secret. Because it’s a macrobusiness in a neoliberal capitalist world. And therefore it exists within a narrative of imperialism and racism, and depends upon this narrative for it’s own survival, because the narrative perpetuates the system.

  • Anonymous

    Not ‘boring’ designers. Horrible, imperialist, inhuman, exploitative designers.

  • Anonymous

    Not ‘boring’ designers. Horrible, imperialist, inhuman, exploitative designers.

  • Ashley

    That NeNe picture pretty much sums up my reaction….

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