Here's how brands like marcjacobs and jenatkinhair are responding to the aftermath of protests, while showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, and advocating justice for George Floyd.
And although Nike hasn’t explicitly addressed the looting of its nationwide stores over the weekend, with locations in Seattle, Chicago, and New York City affected, the brand did post on its social accounts a video message that stated, “For once, don’t do it. Don’t pretend there’s not a problem in America.”
Virgil Abloh, the creator of Off-White and the artistic director for Louis Vuitton Men’s, is receiving blowback for comments he left on an Instagram post from the owner of vintage shop Round Two, Sean Wotherspoon. Wotherspoon posted two pictures of the Round Two locations in Los Angeles, with “Morning LA” as one caption, and the broken-heart Emoji as the other. Abloh commented on one of the posts, “This is fucked up. You see the passion, blood, sweat, and tears Sean puts in for our culture.
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