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Sephora has gotten itself into hot water after a 20 percent off sale in early November that crashed its site. Four women of Chinese descent have filed a class-action suit against the beauty retailer and LVMH, its parent company, for discriminating against minority customers. In this case, deactivating and blocking accounts of shoppers "of perceived Chinese/Asian descent based on the ill-founded and discriminatory belief that all Chinese/Asian customers abuse discount sales to engage in bulk purchase for re-sale." According to "Fashionista," the court filing states the Sephora site crashed Nov. 6, preventing any customers from accessing their accounts or making purchases, but later that evening the site was back up and running. As the retailer explained things on its Facebook site, the malfunctioning was due to "high levels of bulk buys for reselling purposes in North America and other countries" and a number of accounts it believed to be associated with that activity remained suspended. According to the plaintiffs, the blocked accounts belonged to "email addresses with names that appeared to signify Chinese/Asian race/ethnicity/national origin/descent" or Web domains originating in China or Asia. Hence the suit, which the four women — Xiao Xiao, Man Xu, Jiali Chen and Tiantian Zou — filed in the Southern District of New York U.S. District Court Tuesday, Nov. 18. Read More »
Victoria's Secret and "Sports Illustrated" model Sara Sampaio recently made an emotional response to those who criticized her for being too thin after posting a bikini picture, Nov. 12, with the following caption, "Finally in a place with bikini weather...hello LA." Check out the photo below: "Fashion Gone Rogue" reports that after receiving backlash for being "too skinny," the Portuguese model posted another bikini photo via Instagram with a message saying that she is proud of her body and won't allow people to bully her anymore: "I'm proud of my body and I'm not gonna let any of you bully me just because I'm skinny! Every body is different, and every metabolism is different! I eat a lot...I probably eat more burgers than you, I've always been skinnier, and probably will always be..." She continues, "The amount of hate I see thrown at me and to other model friends that I know are naturally skinny [is] ridiculous! U don't see us shaming [non-skinny] bodies so please don't come and shame ours!" Read More »
In a society where beauty typically means being light-skinned with blonde hair and blue eyes, one must question: What happened to beauty being skin deep? In her directorial debut, LisaRaye McCoy tackles the issue of discrimination and prejudice due to skin color within the black community head on in the film "Skinned." The controversial film journeys through the life of a woman named Jolie who has battled with issues of being dark-skinned since childhood. To combat her self-esteem issues she turns to skin bleaching, as she believes that being of a lighter skin complexion equates to beauty, but later in life her hasty decisions become her biggest regret. Check out the "Skinned" trailer below. Read More »
"Keeping up with the Kardashian" reality star Kim Kardashian decided to pen an open letter to her fans regarding the boycott at the Beverly Hills Hotel over Sharia law by Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, which stated that homosexuality as a crime in early May. Read More »
MStars has learned that transgender TV Personality B. Scott lost his battle against BET in the discrimination lawsuit he filed. Read More »
