Blogger Negates Blacks’ Fashion Sense
According to French Elle blogger Nathalie Dolivo, people of color did not have any sense of style until the Obamas took office.
“In this America led for the first time a Black president, the chic has become a plausible option for a community so far pegged to its codes of streetwear,” Dolivo writes. “But if in 2012 the “black-geoisie” has integrated all the white codes of fashion, they do so, not literally. There is always a classic twist, with a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) reminiscent of the roots. It has shifted; it is new, desirable, powerful.”
The piece, titled “Black Fashion Power”, has since been removed from French Elle’s blog but not before someone was able to capture it.
Is she serious?