The Gucci ceo was in New York Wednesday evening for the Marvin Traub Lecture. What was meant to be an interview spanning his career and his tenure at Gucci became heavily dominated by talk of the fashion house\u2019s recent faux pas a balaclava-style sweater that critics said evoked blackface.<\/p>\n
\u201cGucci is often in the news for their extraordinary commercial success, but also for their commitments to communities around the world.
\nExplanation of what went wrong, telling the audience that the sweater was debuted at a February 2018 show, but \u201cnothing happened\u201d until it was recently linked to blackface on Twitter, which sparked the social media storm.<\/p>\n
He admitted that when his team first told him about this, he didn\u2019t know what they were talking about, which he puts down to ignorance on his behalf.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apologized because of this mistake, because of this ignorance,\u201d adding that it was not at all intentional. \u201cWe are coming from a different culture. We are Italian. We don\u2019t know all the cultural differences.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued that the sweater goes completely against the brand\u2019s culture and that\u2019s \u201cwhy we are suffering at Gucci\u2026.It\u2019s not a matter of how much revenue we\u2019re going to lose, if we\u2019re going to lose revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I was very, very open. I thought I knew many, many things. I didn\u2019t know that that created this event\u2026.in a way it\u2019s a good way to be discussing the topic with the leaders of the community to understand how we can improve ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
When talk moved to diversity among Gucci\u2019s top echelon during the Q&A session with students, he responded that he didn\u2019t know the numbers off the top of his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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