Magazine Editor Apologizes After Posing on a ‘Black Woman’ Chair on MLK Day

For some reason that’s going to need a bit of explaining, someone designed a chair in the shape of a half-nude black woman. And when magazine editor Dasha Zhukova sat down for an interview with online fashion site Buro 24/7, she literally sat down on that very mannequin for a photo, which did not go over well online, especially on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Here’s the offending photo:

That photo, of course, stirred an uproar, and Buro 24/7 quickly took the photo down and replaced it with a cropped version that did not show what Zhukova was sitting on. Miroslava Duma, the head of the site, apologized, saying “we are against racism or gender inequality or anything that infringes upon anyone’s rights.”

Zhukova also apologized, though she did argue there was a point to her sitting in a “black woman” chair in the first place.

“This photograph, which has been published completely out of context, is of an artwork intended specifically as a commentary on gender and racial politics.

“I utterly abhor racism, and would like to apologise to anyone who has been offended by this image.”

[photo via Buro 24/7]

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