Stranger Than Fiction: A Look Back at WWD’s Coverage of Wacky Fashion Protests
September 10th, 2008 at 6:42pm |
It’d be easy to think that the fashion industry has had just one controversy — fur. Witness the protests at DKNY, Carolina Herrera and Dennis Basso this week, not to mention at fashion shows throughout the decades. But civil disobedience and fashion have intersected more than once over the years, and WWD has been there to report on some of the more unusual conflicts.
Take the 1969 protest of the Miss America Pageant. Flocking to Atlantic City for the scoop, the media made the feminist group the YUKS (Young Unwashed Kids) out to be “bra burners,” a moniker that stuck for all posterity regardless of the fact that nothing was actually burned in the…
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