Its potent symbolism and strange history give some insight into why it remains such an attractive color for shoe designers and why they are willing to battle in court over its use.
Vera Wang, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani are only a handful of designers who have featured Chinese mannequins in their ad campaigns in efforts to court the second largest luxury consumers in the world.
Ms. Gardner worked with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit libertarian law firm, to sue the Florida regulatory body in charge of interior design in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, claiming the law violated their First Amendment rights to call themselves interior designers.