H&M issued an announcement saying “we apologise to anybody this will have offended”, which seemed insincere to some. Another fashion commercial concerning racism is from GAP, an American worldwide clothing brand. GAP collaborated with Ellen DeGeneres in 2016 for the advertisement. It features playful, 4 young women the place a tall white lady is leaning with her arm on a shorter black lady’s head. When this advert was released, some viewers harshly criticized that it underlies passive racism. A representative from The Root, black culture magazine commented on the advert that it portrays the message that black people are undervalued and seen like props for white individuals to look better.

These days, there are extra various methods in commercials such as television adverts, on-line-primarily based advertisements utilizing internet web sites, and posts, movies, and reside streaming in social media platforms. In the fashion business, mental property is not enforced as …