--- title: Marc Jacobs Show Features White Models With Dreadlocks description: Marc Jacobs’ Fashion Week show has come under fire for featuring a cast of mainly white models with multicolored dreadlocks made from wool canonical: https://time.com/4496861/marc-jacobs-show-comes-under-fire-for-featuring-white-models-with-dreadlocks/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-16T15:41:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:39.647Z og:title: Marc Jacobs Show Features White Models With Dreadlocks og:description: It featured a cast of mainly white models wearing dreadlocks made from wool og:url: https://time.com/4496861/marc-jacobs-show-comes-under-fire-for-featuring-white-models-with-dreadlocks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9c4e82395ac02fe/6988a66e656a3f1ffebcd225/ap_16259686377806.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5409 og:image:height: 3043 og:image:alt: Fashion Marc Jacobs Spring 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Marc Jacobs Show Features White Models With Dreadlocks twitter:description: It featured a cast of mainly white models wearing dreadlocks made from wool twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9c4e82395ac02fe/6988a66e656a3f1ffebcd225/ap_16259686377806.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Marc Jacobs Show Comes Under Fire For Featuring White Models With Dreadlocks > Sponsored content. 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(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Mary Altaffer—AP by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Sep 16, 2016 3:41 PM UTC [Marc Jacobs](http://time.com/4484308/missy-elliott-marc-jacobs-video/)’ [Fashion Week](http://time.com/4489399/nyfw-street-style-2/) presentation has come under fire for featuring a cast of mainly white models wearing multicolored dreadlocks made from wool. The catwalk, which showcased designs for spring/summer 2017, was walked by models including Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Jourdan Dunn, all of whom had custom made dreadlocks weaved into their hair and knotted at the top of their heads. [_Yahoo Beauty_](https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/meet-the-woman-who-dyed-12500-yards-of-faux-dreadlocks-for-the-marc-jacobs-show-180854934.html?utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed&utm%5Fmedium=twitter) reports that Jacobs was inspired by Lana Wachowski, the director behind films including _The Matrix._ Jacobs has since been criticized for committing cultural appropriation and for including so few black models in his show. “All dreads but not ONE black model. Why not have them walk the runway in full feather Native American headdresses?,” wrote one angry Twitter user. “An unknown black man/woman has dreads and it’s assumed they smoke and or are unprofessional,” added another. “\[Now\] Marc Jacobs has a model with dreads, it’s boho chic.” > [](https://twitter.com/rsnwtn/status/776559557468356608) Marc Jacobs later responded angrily to the criticisms. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4496861/marc-jacobs-show-comes-under-fire-for-featuring-white-models-with-dreadlocks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4496861/marc-jacobs-show-comes-under-fire-for-featuring-white-models-with-dreadlocks/"},"headline":"Marc Jacobs Show Comes Under Fire For Featuring White Models With Dreadlocks","datePublished":"2016-09-16T15:41:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:39.647Z","description":"The designer has been called out for cultural appropriation","url":"https://time.com/4496861/marc-jacobs-show-comes-under-fire-for-featuring-white-models-with-dreadlocks/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Fashion Week"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9c4e82395ac02fe/6988a66e656a3f1ffebcd225/ap_16259686377806.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9c4e82395ac02fe/6988a66e656a3f1ffebcd225/ap_16259686377806.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fashion Marc Jacobs Spring 2017","caption":"Fashion Marc Jacobs Spring 2017","creditText":"Mary Altaffer—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4496861/marc-jacobs-show-comes-under-fire-for-featuring-white-models-with-dreadlocks/","name":"Marc Jacobs Show Comes Under Fire For Featuring White Models With Dreadlocks"}}]}] ```