Daily Candy Thinks Isabel Marant’s Navajo Skirt Is ‘Perfect’ For Thanksgiving

by Julia Rubin | 3:44 pm, November 21st, 2011

Remember the Urban Outfitters Navajo debacle? Daily Candy definitely doesn’t.

If you’ll recall, though the offending goods weren’t taken out of Urban stores, their names were indeed changed. However, plenty of other brands haven’t changed the names of their American Indian-influenced items — Isabel Marant included.

Today Daily Candy included the Isabel Marant “Navajo skirt” in a Thanksgiving slideshow entitled Stylishly Stuffed (“clothes to wear when you’ve had too much pie”). Yikes. The copy reads:

Festive and flirty, Isabel Marant’s Navajo skirt is perfect for the occasion in every way (especially with a gathered elastic waist).

Wait, an American Indian-inspired skirt is perfect for Thanksgiving? More like grossly inappropriate.

[Daily Candy]

Daily Candy Isabel Marant Navajo

Anonymous

hm is it not ok to be inspired by native stuff anymore? if its not i’m screwed! i’m from the southwest i love native stuff!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3102419 Cassidy Blackwell

no no— you just can’t use potentially offensive/overly generalized names to market them.

you can definitely be inspired by it (thats my whole take away from this stuff–native american prints are hot right now!),
Anonymous

ooooh i see! i wasn’t going to do that anyways. good lookin out cassidy! :D
http://www.styleite.com Verena von Pfetten

I think it’s fine to be inspired, but appropriating is a whole other story. And the term “Najavo” is trademarked by the Navajo people, so that’s also a problem…
Bikerk

I’m only offended by the $560 price tag!

Daily Candy Thinks Isabel Marant’s Navajo Skirt Is ‘Perfect’ For Thanksgiving

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