Victoria’s Secret sheds headdress from annual lingerie show – The Star-Ledger

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on November 13, 2012 at 5:19 PM

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Karlie Kloss walks the runway in her unmentionables and a Native American headdress at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, which is to be televised
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Hot white women in Native American headdresses: not cool.

Two weeks after No Doubt apologized for and pulled a video from YouTube that featured singer Gwen Stefani gyrating in a feathered headband amid other cowboys-and-Indians tropes, Victoria’s Secret says its annual televised fashion show won’t include footage of model Karlie Kloss wearing leopard-print lingerie paired with a squash-blossom necklace, a fringed, turquoise-studded belt, fringed high heels and a full-length Native American headdress.

Native American groups complained about the headdress, saying it is meant to be worn only by chiefs and warriors who have earned respect through an act of bravery or compassion, the Associated Press reports. (And no, Kloss in her unmentionables does not qualify as a compassionate act.)

“We have gone through the atrocities to survive and ensure our way of life continues,” Navajo Nation spokesman Erny Zah tells the Associated Press. “Any mockery, whether it’s Halloween, Victoria’s Secret — they are spitting on us. They are spitting on our culture, and it’s upsetting.”

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