Zara Outrage 🐸

It was Moncler last year. This year Spanish clothing retailers, Zara have been causing waves on the Twitter-Sphere regarding a new skirt that they have recently launched.

The new denim skirt features a frog which many people have likened to 'Pepe the Frog', a well-known cartoon character that has now become a Meme phenomenon, but for all the wrong reasons.

During the 2016 US Elections Pepe was linked to Donald Trump and many media outlets associated the character with white supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups, which the creator, Matt Furie initially seemed to think that this was "just a phase". That changed when The ADL (The Anti-Defamation League) added Pepe to their racist symbol database although they did say not all Pepe Memes/pictures were portraying racist connotations. This time Furie showed great trepidation and has since partnered with The ADL to create a #SavePepeCampaign.

Zara are yet to respond to the criticism they have been getting on Twitter and in the media but the skirt no longer seems to be on their website. 👀