Lee presses Gucci, Prada to hire black designers
Director Spike Lee said Friday he no longer will wear Gucci or Prada until the brands hire some black designers after a pair of blackface fashion fails from the major Italian fashion houses.
Lee said on Instagram that “It’s Obvious To Da Peoples That They Don’t Have A Clue When It Comes To Racist, Blackface Hateful Imagery. WAKE UP.”
Spike said the brands needed to have black designers “To Be In Da Room When It Happen.”
Lee donned Gucci on the Venice Film Festival red carpet last September, following up with a stop by the Prada womenswear preview show in Milan later in the month decked out in a black Prada suit.
RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire early Friday swept through the sleeping quarters of an academy for Brazil’s popular professional soccer club Flamengo, killing 10 people and injuring three, most likely teenage players, authorities said.
Firefighters were called just after 5 a.m. to the sprawling Ninho de Urubu training grounds in Rio de Janeiro’s western region. Overhead images captured by an Associated Press drone showed a smoky, charred area of the complex.
“We are distraught,” Flamengo President Rodolfo Landim said outside the complex, where friends,