Ryerson University is also facing a wave of backlash for its handling of the criticism being levied at Rogers, who is an honorary patron of the university s Suzanne Rogers Institute of Fashion (SRFI) a fellowship program devised to support emerging designers.
In a since-deleted statement on its Instagram page, Ryerson s fashion school called for dialogue with Rogers about what it describes as Trump s harmful impact on members of the fashion community. Our curriculum and culture at the School of Fashion actively works to challenge, resist and undo the values, structures and practices of white supremacy, exclusion and discrimination that we feel Trump actively enforced and executed during his time as U.S. Present, the statement reads.
Ryerson students in uproar over erasing of message critical of donor s photo with Trump
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This post was updated on May 5th include the response from the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards (CAFA).
On Saturday, socialite and philanthropist Suzanne Rogers shared a series of Stories on her Instagram account showing her and her family at Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump’s resort in Florida. One of the Stories showed Rogers (with her husband, Rogers Communications chairman Edward Rogers, and her two sons) posing with Trump as he gave his signature thumbs-up to camera. She captioned the all-smiles photograph: “A special way to end the night!”
The backlash to the posts was almost instantaneous, and continues to reverberate through Canada’s tight-knit fashion community, and beyond. On Tuesday afternoon, Rogers issued a statement, saying in part: “No political statement, on any policy was intended by that photograph,” after an explanation that she has no relationship “good or otherwise” with Trump, had never met him before and they only took the photo “in me
On the morning of Saturday, May 1, Suzanne Rogers posted an Instagram Story posing with former U.S. President Donald Trump at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. Given that Rogers has positioned herself as the fairy godmother of Canadian fashion, members of that community reacted immediately with condemnations, citing Trump’s lack of support for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people. In 2016, a $1 million donation from The Suzanne and Edward Rogers Foundation established the Suzanne Rogers Fashion Institute at Ryerson University to support emerging designers. Last November, the Foundation provided another gift of $1 million to the SRFI. But Rogers’ post seems to have trumped, so to speak, her previous financial goodwill.