Major Stars Are Boycotting Gucci But, One Superstar says “No one tells me what to do!”
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Floyd Mayweather just walked up in Gucci and spent a grip and when asked by a TMZ reporter about the recent boycott Floyd responded with “I’m my own person and nobody tells me what the “F” to do or wear, I support everybody!”
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Several celebrities have started to boycott Gucci after an $890 sweater resembling blackface went for sale on their website. Luxury designer Gucci apologized for their new wool balaclava jumper because it happens to resemble blackface a little too much. “Gucci deeply apologizes for the offense caused by the wool balaclava jumper,” the brand wrote in response to the backlash. “We consider diversity to be a fundamental value to be fully upheld, respected, and at the forefront of every decision we make.”
Gucci is just the latest of fashion brands to do the blackface thing and quickly try to pick up the pieces apologizing
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