While Fashion Week Haute Couture was in full swing last week, a creative to moderate fame, Ulyana Sergeenko and his fellow socialite slash BFF, Miroslava Duma, found themselves at the heart of a controversy that has not failed to shake the little world of fashion.
It all starts with ... a bouquet of flowers. To welcome her friend as she should before her parade, the Russian designer sent him this modest present, accompanied by the following note "To my n * ggas in Paris. "Literally: " To my negroes in Paris. "A reference, according to the interested, to the famous song of Kanye West and Jay-Z that Miroslava Duma did not fail to immortalize via an Instagram story , obscuring the racist dimension of such an expression.
A failure that hundreds of Internet users hastened to point out, first with the model Naomi Campbell who broke a comment on Instagram : "This can not be true. "
In response, Ulyana Sergeenko awkwardly tried to apologize: " Kanye West is one of my favorite musicians and (the song" N * ggas in Paris ") is one of my favorite songs. And yes, we are sometimes called with the "N word " when we want to give the impression that we are as cool as the guys who sing this song. " No comment. The protests then only intensified.
Since then, the designer has obviously published a completely different statement:
Her friend Miroslava Duma apologized to her Instagram account, saying she was "really sorry" and engaged in values of "integration and diversity. "Problem: the Russian influencer has already been pinned in 2014 for a fashion photo published on her site Buro24 / 7 representing a white model, sitting on a sculpture Allen Jones representing a black woman. In an undated video, republished by blogger Brian Boy, we also see the young woman make transphobic remarks against the models like Andrej Pejic .
Again, this oligarch wife once again expressed deep regret, but the evil seems to be well and truly done.
