Fashion Sense

I have posted before about the fact that East and West do not understand each other, and in particular the West's preoccupation with:

1. Political correctness and 
2. Western history being the pre-eminent world view of the past few centuries.

This shows up time and time again.

Keyakizaka46 In Black Leather

These two issues were illustrated once again this week when a JPop group (Japanese pop) called Keyakizaka46, which features twenty two nubile young women (as most JPop groups do) and who are owned by Sony Corp, got into hot water because they wore costumes that could be interpreted as looking a little bit like black SS Nazi-themed Halloween costumes, if that was what you were looking for to complain about. 

The Best Christmas Campaign Ever?

Web Product marketing is still a developing science, as a well-known Internet clothing firm in the UK has discovered this Christmas, when a computer glitch paired up a bra product with an image of Hitler's memoirs 'Mein Kampf!'

Marketing Disaster or Opportunity?

 

This random image issue occurred on other products as well, with other odd images published on the website, but despite the speed with which they corrected the problem, it was the Hitler glitch which went around the world.