El Stupido Haute Couture Scandals

My last piece here is about an Yves Saint Laurent commercial and I wondered if that's the brand Madonna did a commercial for recently that was all le scandal because a 67 year old woman is making out with someone. 

Madonna being Madonna. I didn't bother to try to find the commercial and watch it but I'm rolling my eyes here. 

Anyway, no, that's Dolce Y Gabanna which the English internet autocorrupts to Dolce and Gabbana and those two phrases get different search results.

So I ended up going down a short rabbit hole before my squirrel on crack attention span that night took me elsewhere. I'm wondering about financials of haute couture houses. 

Is that relevant to what I'm doing here? I honestly don't know. Off the top of my head, Donna Karan is maybe the closest big name brand to what I'm trying to do. It's research. 

Anyway, no, haute couture houses don't have a Wikipedia page about their financials. So next I'm trying to find News, see what I can see that might be pertinent to my interests.

Anyway, somehow I tripped across le stupider scandal involving Dolce Y Gabbana. Bella Hadid and others are dragging them for some recent runway show and calling it "50 shades of white." As in White people. 

And listed among their complaints is that the lack of diversity includes no blondes. I don't know how you can get yet stupider but they did. Loads of talent in the idiocy department. 

It just so happens that at the start of this month I did a piece elsewhere where I talk about Latino or Hispanic is polite code for part African and part Middle Eastern and it closes with these remarks:

Historically in the US, Spanish was deemed to be White while Italian and Irish were not. 

Now it's the opposite. Spanish is Hispanic which we totally think has NOTHING to do with being part Black but also isn't "White" anymore. Irish and Italian are now White.

White isn't actually an ethnicity. It's made-up bullshit for "whomever we feel like including in the acceptable people THIS generation."

So my first thought is "It's an Italian company. Like I bet most of their models are Italian."

So I check and 87 percent of the population of Italy is "Italian." Shock of shockers. 

I don't really know what that means but you go to the Wikipedia page and it indicates there was an Arab invasion at some point and with a smidgen of looking around, ancient Rome had a province in Northern Africa.

I don't really feel like going to great lengths to support this but Spaniards and Italians are generally swarthier than most of pasty white Europe because they are on the Mediterranean and they are both famous for being all let's make love, not war.

So they've been bumping uglies with people from Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years and they aren't Caucasian.  You don't see a lot of blondes among ethnically Spanish or Italian.

Probably those 50 shades of "White models" with no blondes are 50 shades of Italian. And any racist redneck in the Deep South of the US with a 3rd grade education can probably tell you no one of either of those ethnicities -- Spanish or Italian -- passes the one drop rule about "You aren't WHITE if you have the SLIGHTEST bit of African blood."

Maybe Bella Hadid doesn't have a third grade education. 

Also, FYI 29 year old airhead who wasn't ALIVE when Madonna was BIG, really big: As far as I know, Madonna has hands down the best track record for ethnic diversity in her music videos and stage shows of anyone in music. So I don't know what kind of crack you're on, but please shut up.

What does this have to do with NWW? I have absolutely no clue, but it's about the fashion industry so whatevs.