A Mannequin at Gucci’s Spring 2020 Present Staged a Mini Protest on the Runway
Ayesha Tan Jones makes an announcement with out saying a phrase at Gucci Spring 2020; Picture: Jacopo Raule/Getty Pictures for Gucci
Simply after we thought nothing at Milan Trend Week would high Jennifer Lopez‘s activate the Versace runway, a mannequin strolling the catwalk at Gucci’s Spring 2020 present proved us improper.
Whereas everybody across the globe tunes into style week to be taught the newest tendencies, non-binary musician and artist Ayesha Tan Jones (aka Yaya Bones) noticed it as a chance to shine a highlight on psychological well being. One of many first few fashions to open the present in outfits that includes straitjacket silhouettes, they raised their arms so everybody may see the phrase “psychological well being isn’t style” written on them.
We all know what you’re pondering: this was clearly staged. However in response to an announcement from Gucci, the protest wasn’t a part of the plan.
Want extra proof? In an announcement posted to Instagram Jones writes: “It’s in dangerous style for Gucci to make use of the imagery of straitjackets and outfits alluding to psychological sufferers, whereas being rolled out on a conveyor belt as if a chunk of manufacturing unit meat. Presenting these struggles as props for promoting garments in at the moment’s capitalist local weather is vulgar, unimaginative and offensive to the hundreds of thousands of individuals all over the world affected by these points.”
Alessandro Michele later went on to clarify that the “straitjackets” had been meant to represent uniforms which might be dictated by society restraining any technique of self-expression. So we’re guessing the designer wasn’t aggravated that Jones expressed themselves…