New York, NY – A New York-based fashion label revealed a “school shooting” line at a show during New York Fashion Week.
The hoodies, as you can see, feature the names of schools remembered for some of the most notorious shootings in history. Worse still, “designer bullet holes” litter the hoodies featuring the school names of Columbine, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Sandy Hook, and Virginia Tech.
The label, Bstroy, is facing major backlash over the move, and it is easy to see why.
School shootings are not art. These atrocities are indefensible, and Bstroy owes victims and their families an apology.
Instead, designer Brick Owens responded on Instagram with this quote:
“Sometimes life can be painfully ironic,” Owens wrote. “Like the irony of dying violently in a place you consider to be a safe, controlled environment, like school. We are reminded all the time of life’s fragility, shortness, and unpredictability yet we are also reminded of its infinite potential.”
Brick Owens, Instagram
We are disgusted and appalled that this designer believes the deaths of innocent students and teachers is a fashion statement. This is not some profound irony.
If anything, it is a chance for this label to profit off the deaths of dozens of innocent victims.
We fully support free speech and the expression of everyone’s ideas in different forms. Unfortunately, this stunt crosses the line of decency. This stunt spits in the face of victims and their families.
For that, hundreds (if not thousands) of people are owed a heartfelt apology, not some trope about “irony.”
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