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Chanel goes to Cuba

The ultimate Potemkin village show, complete with creepy Karl and a little kid at the end,

Notice the 1950s cars in the prints!

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A building collapse in Old Havana has left some fifty Cubans homeless.

The disaster occurred on Wednesday 4 May at 7:30 p.m. on Villegas Street, after a day of heavy rain and strong winds.

The building had been declared unfit for habitation 31 years ago, in 1985, but people continued to live there and nothing was fixed. In addition, the wall that gave way, causing the building’s roof to cave in, had been declared extremely dangerous 13 years ago in 2003.



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  1. I wonder what the average Cuban thought of such nonsense. Of course, I am betting good money that the average Cuban was kept far, far away from that exhibition. How ridiculous is it that Chanel would have a fashion show in Cuba, a rabidly communist country where people do not have access ever to such things.
    My heart breaks for the people of Cuba because they are too ignorant to even know to rise up and kill their oppressors.

  2. The car prints!!! Geez, also guayaberas and cigars! Is this cultural appropriation? Or does that only apply to American college students who wear sombreros while they knock back tequila shots on Cinco de Mayo?

  3. After two generations of indoctrination, it’s just not going to happen. The fashion show is framed in propaganda proclaiming victory over the so-called embargo.

  5. I was appalled by the whole show. A Chanel dress or purse cost more than a Cuban makes,annua9. Whoever allowed Kaiser Karl or their PR department should be admonished. This is a typical example of political correctness by those who expose their compassion for the underdogs. It must have been surreal for the few Cubans who were not allowed to attend but could view from their windows. Pathetic

  6. A Chanel dress or purse cost more than a Cuban makes,annual
    Actually, since the maximum legal salary is $20, a Chanel purse costs more than 10 or 15 times.

  7. Chanel missed an opportunity. With Kaiser Karl–who once mandated that some of the most beautiful women in the world starve themselves until they looked like survivors of the death camps–they could have gone out into the population and recruited some living, skeletal examples of life under Communism. Oh, how clever–real, live survivors in ridiculously expensive clothes!