| 08/14/2021 |
Some months ago, Nike sued a rapper for releasing a Satanic version of its shoes. Now Converse shoes, owned by Nike Inc., has officially released a line of shoes in collaboration with Rick Owens, a fashion designer famous for dark and occult ascetics. The new shoes, called the « TURBODRK Chuck 70 » debuted online with two bald, pale models, dressed in skin-tight black leather. They were contorted in the shape of an inverted pentagram, a Satanic symbol. The same inverted pentagram also appears on the new shoes. Sign the protest to Converse, urging it to pull its Satanic shoes According to reports about the new pair of Converse shoes: « [A] series of three Instagram posts celebrated grunge fashion designer Rick Owens’ take on the classic Chuck Taylor All Star high-top [a Converse shoe]. The shoe itself wouldn’t be too shocking on its own… « But the hellish ads feature bald, white-painted models with blackened lips and eyes and pentagrams in their mouths, dressed in black leather morph suits — an aesthetic the creative director called ‘non-binary aliens.’ And Owens said that his inspiration for the shoes was his fascination with Satanic ideals. » ‘I’ve been using this pentagram for a long time because obviously, it has adolescent occult associations,’ he said of the shoes. ‘…And a pentagram, in this day and age with all of its associations … I like the fact that it refers to an alternative system.’ « Converse justified the design as coming from the transgressive world of grunge fashion: ‘Owens emerged from the glam-rock and grunge underground to become one of fashion’s essential iconoclasts. His DRKSHDW diffusion line, launched in 2005, blends punk edge with couture-like sophistication. The aesthetic is all about disrupting formality — embracing traditional structure and then blowing it up‘ » (Source: NCRegister.com; emphasis added) Sign the petition to Converse, urging it to stop promoting Satanism If that is not dark enough in a world rife with anarchy, Rick Owens is known for pushing transgressive ideas, like a fashion show promoting « lust and vice. » A shoe company should have nothing to do with a man like this, or Satanic ideology. These products promote and glamorize evil, making it « commonplace. » This effectively destroys the barriers of horror for evil. We must take Converse and Nike to task for using their companies to promote Satanism. Please sign our petition, telling Converse to remove its Satanic products. I remain, |
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| | John Horvat Vice-President, Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) www.ReturnToOrder.org |
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