Winge, an associate professor of apparel and textile design at Michigan State University who authored a paper on the styles of Tokyo's fashionable district, argued that the situation is nuanced. Regrettably, Stefani borrowing a style for her dress and her backup performers, even a street style that originated and visually defines a portion of a society and in this case ethnic group, is cultural appropriation.
In this case, Winge said, many of the Japanese Harajuku style subcultures emerged from styling salons in the area using young people as models to attract future clients, followers and influencers — so, in simplest terms, to spread the look far and wide. Winge added that it didn't seem like Stefani wanted to take something away from the Japanese street-style subcultures, "however, she quickly transitioned away from the Harajuku Girls when these concerns of appropriation first surfaced.
Stefani previously addressed the Harajuku Girls controversy in a interview with Billboard. The singer, who also wore bindis and saris on stage in the s while dating No Doubt's Indian-American bassist Tony Kanal, said she found the idea of demeaning another culture "horrifying.
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The Harajuku Girls and Suganami were prized only for face value, recognized for a merit detached from their humanity. While the mass shooting at several Atlanta-area spas, which left eight people, including six Asian women, dead was shocking news to some, research released by reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate in March revealed that nearly 3, anti-Asian incidents were reported over the previous year, and 68 percent of the incidents targeted women.
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Can her body—skin and bones—take up space? The possibility exists for Asian women to reclaim the exhibition of their bodies, but that would require Asian women to be human first, in the eyes of the public. Stefani has faced decades of cultural appropriation accusations, from wearing a bindi a South Asian religious symbol in the 90s to her "Luxurious" music video, where she imitated Hispanic culture and seductively danced in an Our Lady of Guadalupe shirt.
Indian fight with teepees and feathered headdresses. The group pulled the video and apologized for "being hurtful" and "offensive. But the most serious claim of cultural appropriation came from the Japanese-inspired imagery Stefani used heavily on her album "Love.
Baby," which birthed her No. A post shared by Gwen Stefani gwenstefani. Comedian Margaret Cho has compared Stefani's girl group of dancers of Japanese descent, which frequently accompanied the pop star in music videos and red carpet events, to a "minstrel show. Stefani disagrees with the longstanding criticism to this day. During her Paper Magazine interview, Stefani said people from different cultures can "share. And all these rules are just dividing us more and more.
Stefani continued: "I think that we grew up in a time where we didn't have so many rules. We didn't have to follow a narrative that was being edited for us through social media, we just had so much more freedom.
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