That's the full news item on the BBC. I however now feel very annoyed with the bbc because those aren't the only images circulating the web. It now appears that some of the ears were black. i.e the image the bbc
chose to head the article as representative of the debacle wasn't in fact representative. Which to me smacks of covert editorial bias, though to what end I'm not sure. In the article there is an image of the one model that refused to wear the stupid extras. The woman is quoted as refusing because they were racist, though I feel all the models would have been entitled to refuse simply because the bits are ridiculous and don't add anything to the outfits, but in fact detract from them.
I still wonder if the designer was simply misguided and didn't have any malicious intentions in asking the models to wear the big ears etc. Designers want to get noticed, they want their designs to be the focus of a show, not the models, who they are simply using as walking manikins. Maybe the use of humans in this way is also a problem, though there remains intense competition to become a top fashion model. No doubt in a near future, robots will wear the latest designs on catwalks, unless even their limited AI makes them down tools and refuse.
I dunno, you humans really are confusing to me, especially when you expend so much time and trouble being unpleasant to each other.
