Nebraska fashion week outfit sparks furious backlash as designer is forced to release statement

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Nebraska fashion week outfit sparks furious backlash as designer is forced to release statement

Daily Mail
By EMILY LEFROY
24 March 2025



A designer who crafted a jacket for Nebraska fashion week that appeared to feature a swastika has claimed the controversial piece was a misunderstanding.

Kelli Molczyk faced immediate backlash after the garment was seen on the runway at Omaha Fashion Week in late February.

She has since claimed that the hate symbol was not intentional and revealed that the piece started as an 'antique pinwheel quilt remnant purchased from a well-known store in Central Nebraska two years ago.'

'I have never been a part of a hate organization, and I condemn, in the strongest terms, the swastika and any form of hate speech or conduct,' Molczyk wrote in an Instagram post.

'To associate me with any such acts of hate or hate groups is reprehensible and defamatory,' she added to the March 21 post.

Organizers said they are 'appalled by what appeared on the runway,' and they 'staunchly stand against everything that symbol stands for.'

'This was not something that was seen beforehand,' organizers said in a March 20 post on Facebook.

'It was not at our rack check, which happens a few weeks before shows, and was not put on the model until shortly before she walked the runway, so our team did not have the chance to pull the garment until after it had walked the runway once.'

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[Timber Rattler]

Organizers said they are 'appalled by what appeared on the runway,' and they 'staunchly stand against everything that symbol stands for.'

What...even "good luck" in the original Sanskrit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#:~:text=The%20swastika%20(%E5%8D%90%20or%20%E5%8D%8D,in%20the%20early%2020th%20century.

Historical ignoramuses.

[Sighlass]

Got a lot of old quilts, never thought about them possibly being conceived as Nas Zee symbols.... Wife likes to take old quilts and repurpose them in newer quilts as "thickening agents"...

I can see it now, our great grandchildren discovering we were secret SS officers on the sly when an old quilt falls apart.