Six weeks after part one of Recho Omondi’s “The Tanning of America” went up, the designer has announced that part two is never going to air. Omondi will refund Patreon subscribers who “came for the tea” and never got it
Leandra Medine Photo: Getty Images for Louis Vuitton Just over a year ago, Leandra Medine — founder of the now-defunct fashion blog Man Repeller — stepped down from her position at the site’s helm. Her official resignation came on June 10, two weeks after George Floyd’s murder catalyzed national protests against state-sanctioned violence against Black and brown people.
In the course of the interview — the third Omondi says she’s recorded with Medine, having “canned” the earlier two, first because Medine was “rude” and later after she implored her, through tears, to kill the tape — Medine stresses the fact that her parents “are immigrants from the Middle East.” Her father, originally from Turkey, is the founder and CEO of the Mark Henry Jewelry Corporation; her mother, originally from Iran, is the eponymous designer behind one of its brands.
Anyway, if you were wondering whether or not the feedback from her former employees — namely, that a culture of favoritism siloed opportunity among white employees and sidelined staffers of color — got through, the answer is … eh! Medine told Omondi that she doesn’t see herself as racist; rather, she believes complaints about her management style at Man Repeller came down to her being “an immature asshole,” she said. “I’m an equal-opportunity asshole. Like, I sucked as a leader.
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