Retailers and top fashion brands like Gucci and Prada keep apologising for products that smack of racial insensitivity. Experts say many of these fashion companies live in a sort of bubble and lack the diversity in their staff that could vet their fashions. In a statement posted on Twitter, Gucci offered a mea culpa and said that it planned to turn the incident "into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team and beyond''. Gucci, for instance, will hire a global director for diversity and inclusion, a newly created role. Prada said it's creating a diversity council to "elevate voices of color within the company and fashion industry at large.''

Source: Stuff February 17, 2019 20:55 UTC