What was Italian Vogue Thinking?

"Slave Earrings." The text accompanying the image of a model wearing the circular jewelry reads: "If the name brings to the mind the decorative traditions of the women of colour who were brought to the southern United States during the slave trade, the latest interpretation is pure freedom.”

SLAVERY and anything related to it can never make fashion sense...The supposed Fashion "Bible" as people like to call it should have known better. The cover has stirred controversy and all the wrong comments you can imagine....i wonder what they were thinking!
Vogue has apologised saying:
"We apologize for the inconvenience. It is a matter of really bad translation from Italian into English," the magazine's editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani said in a statement to press."The Italian word, which defines those kind of earrings, should instead be translated into 'ethnic style earrings'. Again, we are sorry about this mistake which we have just amended in the website."
THe article has been removed but the damage has already been done. Sometimes, we have too be careful what we are selling! Whether slave or ethnic, its not interchangeable!