From fashionista.com : … Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck sent a model

From fashionista.com :

… Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck sent a model down the runway wearing a makeshift feathered headdress, with the not-so-subtle message “stop racism” scrawled across it in what looks to be red paint.

However, Arabelle Sicardi at thestylecon.com is less than impressed:

When Karl Lagerfeld puts a model down the runway in a head-dress, he took the power from Native Americans and made a mask of it for fun. When Walter van Beirendonck put a white model in a head-dress — even if it said STOP RACISM in big red letters — he’s doing the same thing. Satire is a dead fish in fashion when you are considering the power play. And this one? It’s funny. van Bierendonck sent out a model with a well intentioned message, but by placing it on an actual headdress, and placing that headdress on a white body, even if he meant well, he was just perpetuated the shitstorm…. It’s still tokenism; it’s not funny, it’s not changing anything, it’s not giving the power back to the people it was taken from.

(Thanks to garconniere for the tip)