Cultural appropriation has become a hot topic in the fashion and beauty world of late, and ASOS are the latest company to spark an online debate.
The issue started when the website labelled a range of bindis by brand In Your Dreams as Halloween items.
The packaging makes no reference to the Bindis being intended for use on Halloween, or as part of a costume, and many shoppers took to Twitter to express their distaste at the ASOS marketing.
ASOS replied to one Twitter user today, tweeting the below message as a response to the question above from Rawnie Cally.
But it's not the first time the website has come under fire for cultural appropriation.
In a response to this article, a spokesperson for ASOS told HuffPost UK Style: "In Your Dreams is one of the brands available on ASOS.com. It is never our intention to knowingly offend anyone, therefore these products will be removed from ASOS.com."
We have also reached out to In Your Dreams for comment and will update this feature on reply.
The issue started when the website labelled a range of bindis by brand In Your Dreams as Halloween items.
The packaging makes no reference to the Bindis being intended for use on Halloween, or as part of a costume, and many shoppers took to Twitter to express their distaste at the ASOS marketing.
@ASOS Bindi for halloween you know? Rebrand it pls. pic.twitter.com/Nz3JYJPVYV
— DJ$lewdem (@MinaLioness) September 29, 2015asos are selling metallic bindi tattoos in the halloween section
— ♛ pumpkin princess ♛ (@dizzyhxights) October 10, 2015Why is it that when you type in 'Halloween' on ASOS, Bindi's come up??
— amy (@Amarghh) October 14, 2015@ASOS is not massive cultural appropriation for you to have bindi's under the Halloween filter? pic.twitter.com/wD21IDiC9K
— Rawnie Cally (@rawniecally) October 19, 2015ASOS replied to one Twitter user today, tweeting the below message as a response to the question above from Rawnie Cally.
@rawniecally Thanks for the feedback Rawnie, we'll pass this on to our buyers to re-consider
— ASOS (@ASOS) October 19, 2015But it's not the first time the website has come under fire for cultural appropriation.
@ASOS_Au why is a white girl wearing a bindi in your rag and boa dress pictures... that's cultural appropriation
— Claire (@_caulicheese) May 1, 2015In a response to this article, a spokesperson for ASOS told HuffPost UK Style: "In Your Dreams is one of the brands available on ASOS.com. It is never our intention to knowingly offend anyone, therefore these products will be removed from ASOS.com."
We have also reached out to In Your Dreams for comment and will update this feature on reply.
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