In a week when Gucci apologized for a balaclava sweater that evoked blackface, and Virginia’s governor and attorney general admitted to wearing blackface, Alexander Wang threw a fashion week party at the Rainbow Room. The theme was “Big Trouble in Little China(town),” and the dress code was chinoiserie. Guests arrived on Saturday wearing Chinese silk dressing gowns over street clothes. By 11:30 p.m. the room, decorated with red paper lanterns and a dragon, was a veritable United Nations of cultural appropriation. Black, Asian and white partygoers in a mix of hip-hop street wear and Chinese silk tunics, some with chopsticks in their hair, danced to performances by Tommy Genesis, City Girls, Trina and ASAP Ferg.

Source: New York Times February 13, 2019 17:26 UTC