MAC and Rodarte collaboration cancelled

The beauty press have known for a while that MAC had collaborated on a make-up collection with design duo Rodarte. However, the collection has hit much controversy on blogs and discussion boards across the internet. The Rodarte sisters were inspired by the city of Juarez, Mexico, an impoverished factory town, which they had visited on their travels. Juarez has one of the highest murder rates in the world with many women and children aged between 12 and 22 the victims. This town’s connection with a range of beauty products is what caused such controversy, especially as two of the product names were 'Ghost Town’ and ‘Factory'.

Today MAC posted this statement on its Facebook page:

“Out of respect for the people of Mexico, the women and girls of Juarez and their families, as well as our MAC Mexican staff and colleagues, MAC has made the decision not to ship the MAC Rodarte limited edition makeup collection. This decision will have no impact on MAC’s commitment to donate all of its projected global profits from this collection to local and international groups that work to improve the lives of the women and girls of Juarez. We are currently conducting due diligence to ensure we donate to organizations with a proven record of directly supporting the women and girls of Juarez. MAC and Rodarte are deeply and sincerely sorry and we apologize to everyone we offended. We have listened very closely to the feedback of concerned global citizens. We are doing our very best to right this wrong. The essence of MAC is to give back and care for the community and Rodarte is committed to using creativity for positive social change. We are grateful for the opportunity to use what we have learned to raise awareness on this important issue.”