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  • Rihanna's Fenty Beauty pulls its 'Geisha Chic' highlighter after backlash [abbr.]

    04/02/2019 7:12:27 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 24 replies
    MSN ^ | April 2, 2019
    On March 29, Rihanna's Fenty Beauty announced that it would be launching a red highlighter called "Geisha Chic." After the brand shared photos of the new product on Instagram, customers called the highlighter's name "inappropriate," and accused the brand of being racist.
  • Travel Like a VIP on a Small Budget in Asia

    04/30/2010 12:29:29 PM PDT · by Niuhuru · 16 replies · 583+ views
    Associated Content ^ | April 30 2010 | Alice Winters
    Rarely are currency exchange rates as good for the American dollar as that of Asian countries. In Asia, the American dollar carries a lot of clout and with the recent devaluation of the USD; it is a good thing that these countries offer an excellent trip for so little cost to Americans.
  • Kylie Minogue: Confessions of a Bad Geisha

    05/02/2008 5:38:45 PM PDT · by Mister Ghost · 8 replies · 77+ views
    The Fashion Time Blog ^ | Apr 30th, 2008 | The Fashion Time Blog
    There are classy stars, and then there are the Media Whores. Kylie Minogue crosses the line in to whoredom posing as a not so lovely looking Geisha girl with a bad makeup job, or a middle age opera star in drag. At first we thought it was Marc Jacobs playing a trick on us...
  • Anger As Film Highlights Good-Time Geisha Girls

    11/29/2005 5:35:00 PM PST · by blam · 66 replies · 8,484+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-30-2005 | Colin Joyce/Richard Spencer
    Anger as film highlights good-time geisha girls By Colin Joyce in Tokyo and Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 30/11/2005) Japan hosted the premiere of a Hollywood film on geishas last night amid anger that the girls are portrayed as prostitutes and the actresses who play them Chinese. Memoirs of a Geisha not only has Chinese leading ladies, it is a screen version of a book by an American, directed by an American and shot in California, not Kyoto, their traditional home. Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li in Memoirs of a Geisha The film, shown in the national sumo...
  • Hollywood GEISHA raise eyebrows in Asia

    11/28/2005 7:10:53 AM PST · by Hildy · 78 replies · 2,492+ views
    Reuters ^ | November 28, 2005 | Hildy
    TOKYO (Reuters) - A dream team of movie stars from China and Japan gathered in Tokyo on Monday to promote "Memoirs of a Geisha," the first big-budget Hollywood romance to feature an almost entirely Asian cast. But a day ahead of the world premiere, some in Japan were wondering why homegrown talent was shut out of the leading roles in a film that celebrates Japan's unique culture. Harsher comments have come from China, where bitter feelings over Japan's 1931-45 occupation of parts of the country make the idea of Chinese playing geisha unacceptable to some. Based on a best-selling novel,...