Commes Des Garçons became the latest fashion house to cause offence at Paris Fashion Week on Friday.
There are parallels between the Comme Des Garçons incident and one from 2015 - according to Lauren Indvik, fashion editor at the Financial Times - when a Valentino collection that was supposed to be a tribute to Africa featured predominantly white models and clothes made in Paris.
Her show in Marrakech was widely praised for its attention to detail - from employing an expert on African textiles to including benches with cushions embroidered by local weavers for guests to sit on."They did the research and worked with local artists and curators - who gave a series of talks at the show - so people could really understand and educate themselves," she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
"There wasn't the same visibility and awareness and dialogue around cultural appropriation years ago, but the internet has made it so much more visible," Lauren says. "I think there's now a focus on recruiting for diversity that probably wasn't there three or four years ago."Fashion editor Lauren Indvik says Ralph Lauren have had a successful diversity recruitment model in place for years
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