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The image labelled racist - Victoria's Secret newly launched lingerie collection titled Go East from its website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today Talent Management wasn’t surprised to hear that Victoria\u2019s Secret has sparked controversy yet again.<\/p>\n

Having only just got over their stint of photoshopping accusations<\/a>, we’ve now read several angry reports relating to a website image of their newly launched lingerie collection with the rather unoriginal title ‘Go East’.
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\nNow removed from the Victoria\u2019s website, the image labelled racist (seen above) shows Caucasian model Candice Swanepoel, originally from Sweden, sporting a contentiously named little number called ‘Sexy Little Geisha’.<\/p>\n

The mesh teddy with “flirty cutouts and Eastern-inspired florals”, which comes with a matching fan, hair chopsticks and obi belt with removable bow, was described as a “sexy little fantasy” and “your ticket to an exotic adventure” by the American lingerie brand.<\/p>\n

But it seems not many people agree, with masses of offended critics finding the image an offensive Eastern stereotype of exotic sexuality.<\/p>\n

Racialicious, a website that examines the connection between race and popular culture, said that the image was a “troubling attempt to sidestep authentic representation of a culture and opt instead for racialized fetishizing against Asian women”.<\/p>\n

It continued: “There\u2019s a long-standing trend to represent Asian women as hypersexualized objects of fantasy, so it\u2019s telling that none of the models wearing the Go East collection appear to be Asian.<\/p>\n

“Sex and sexuality don\u2019t live in a bubble. They intersect with our historical and cultural contexts. Donning a ‘sexy Geisha’ outfit to get the ball rolling in the bedroom remains offensive because it confirms a paradigm in which Asian people and their culture can be modified and sexualized and appropriated for the benefit of the West.”<\/p>\n

The Frisky<\/a>, a women-focussed popular culture website, agreed, saying: “Considering the complicated history of geishas, repurposing the [geisha] ‘look’ for a major corporation to sell as role-playing lingerie seems a bit tasteless.”<\/p>\n

Similar views are also seen on a blog called ‘Angry Asian Man’, which says: “Hooray for exotic orientalist bulls**t.”<\/p>\n

Talent Management would love to hear not only from our models with an Eastern background, but from all our models<\/a>\u2026does this image offend you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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