'I'm Japanese and I didn't know,' Gwen Stefani says when asked about Harajuku backlash
LOS ANGELES — Gwen Stefani was given yet another opportunity to address her infamous appropriation of Japanese culture — specifically what she learned from the backlash — and completely botched it. In a bizarre Allure interview meant to promote her new GXVE Beauty line, the Orange County-bred No Doubt frontwoman instead insisted repeatedly that she is Japanese, reigniting the conversation ...
LOS ANGELES — Gwen Stefani was given yet another opportunity to address her infamous appropriation of Japanese culture — specifically what she learned from the backlash — and completely botched it.
In a bizarre Allure interview meant to promote her new GXVE Beauty line, the Orange County-bred No Doubt frontwoman instead insisted repeatedly that she is Japanese, reigniting the conversation about cultural appropriation and her long track record of misappropriation, most notoriously displayed in her early 2000s Harajuku Girls era.
Posed with a question by the about what she learned
