Speaking to Digiday, she explained how one of BuzzFeeds followers had sent the official account of the picture, asking: Can you settle this argument for us? She said: The post, just a question asking What colours are this dress?, took five minutes
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As the brand's owner at the time, Peter Capolino, told Fortune in 2003, "I figured my market was 35-to-75-year-old conservative, college-educated, suburban white men." But in 1998, after Outkast's Big Boi was styled in a throwback Dale Murphy (Atlanta Braves) jersey for the duo's "Skew It on the Bar-B" music video, it quickly became clear that his target market was far Blacker and swaggier
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Specifically, the designer was quoted in a 1997 text by Richard Harrison Martin for the Gianni Versace retrospective exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saying that the eye-popping safety pin dresses in the collection were inspired by the punk subculture (hence the safety pins) and the Indian sari (as seen in the wrap-around design of the silhouette)