Now the campaign, called “Soul Scene,” featuring only black models and dancers and designed to look like a late-1960s black dance party, is here. The fact is, putting a group of black people wearing vibrant clothing in a room and asking them to dance does not a revolution make. While the campaign purports to celebrate black soul, it smacks of performance rather than genuine homage. Northern Soul was an up-tempo offshoot of black American soul music. Similar questions seem to be at the heart of the new Gucci campaign.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2017 03:56 UTC