WEEK OF OCTOBER 10TH BLOG: Ava Noble
Summary: A famous fashion clothing line, Moschino, released a line with prescription drugs on it. Drug addiction advocates, parents and doctors criticized the line. They say it is putting a positive message on drugs, and it is making it look "cool". The clothing is featuring drugs that killed over 28,000 people in 2008 due to overdoses. Some pills are necessary for a healthy life for many individuals, but the new Capsule collection is sending the public a message that pills are ALWAYS good. When the controversy started, Moschino released "MoschiNO", promoting saying NO to drugs! While many people do believe they were trying to send out a negative message, many do have faith in Moschino's values.
Analysis/Synthesis:
Prior to reading this article, I had not heard about this argument. Personally, I do not think Moschino was intending to promote positivity about doing illegal drugs. The designers behind Moschino were clearly not thinking about sending this message; they just wanted to come out with a new, hip line that would sell well. I have not ever bought clothes from Moschino, but I have seen them around a lot. Their clothing is very "out of the box" . It usually has crazy pop-outs and bright clothing. To synthesize, I can relate this to when John Balmer was arrested for having drugs only because his shirt said, "Seriously, I have drugs." I think the point of the article was particularly written to save Moschino's reputation. I'm sure they do not want people thinking they want drug addicts to buy their clothes or purchase something that has a bad influence on them.
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/06/nordstrom-pulls-moschino-drug-themed-clothing-from-stores-web-site.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/06/nordstrom-pulls-moschino-drug-themed-clothing-from-stores-web-site.html
Personally I don't think any sort of drug should be influenced, but I agree that this probably wasn't their intention. Hopefully Moschino can make up for this mistake.
ReplyDeleteI am very glad to know that Nordstroms was not promoting drugs. I buy a lot of their clothes and I would never think they would do such a thing! I hope Moschino's reputation is not ruined!
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to talk with the person who came up with the design about the inspiration. If they weren't trying to promote drug use, I wonder what they were trying to say.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that drug use shouldn't be promoted. It doesn't set a good example to the young generation and doesn't promote a positive message.
ReplyDeleteThe line wasn't trying to promote drugs. In fact, I think the statement that the designers were trying to make was entirely unrelated to whether abusing prescription drugs is cool or not, but rather about the overmedication of the american public due to the prevalence of Big Pharma. I think its strange that there's such an uproar over the alleged "drug promotion" in the fashion industry, when we swallow it in almost every other aspect of popular culture. Music ( 'cant feel my face' by The Weeknd, 'Hands to Myself' by Selena Gomez, 'Chandelier' by Sia, etc), Movies (Prozac Nation, Scarface, Dazed and Confused, The Wolf of Wall Street, etc), Celebrities ( Wiilie Nelson, Michael Phelps, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Tim Allen, etc.) , and even books we read in school ( Alsous Huxley was known to be influenced by LSD and other psychedelics while writing his masterwork, Brave New World). It is ridiculous that people are rejecting drug's use as a statement in the fashion world when they swallow it like a pill in all other aspects of our culture. If what you're aiming for is to reform against the promotion of drugs, it looks like its too late. How's the war on drugs going again? Did we win?
ReplyDeleteAlso, there is a LOT of thought that is put into a line before releasing it, especially by a company like Moschino. The designers DEFINITELY thought about how the messages these clothes are sending would be received, and they probably didn't anticipate such a backlash. The pills featured in Moschino's line are NOT representative OxyCodin or Vicodin, as the article implies, but of Amoxicillin, and antibiotic, and Thiothixine, and antipsychotic. Neither of those drugs have killed anyone that has been recorded. FOX probably needs to hire better fact checkers.
ReplyDeleteSorry lol.
DeleteI think that drugs shouldn't be promoted at all. It's not very good to be promoting things that aren't good for our society. -Skyler Tepedino
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