'Cosmopolitan' accuses Victoria's Secret of

During one of the highly-anticipated 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which will air on Monday night, model Elsa Hosk strutted down the runway wrapped in a large dragon, model Taylor Hill walked wearing a kimono and tassles and Adriana Lima walked in boots that were vaguely Asian-inspired with tassles as well, with wings that looked

Models at the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Source: Getty Images

This particular segment, called "The Road Ahead," was meant to celebrate multiculturalism and the blending of cultures. As Nepalese jewelry designer Arpana Rayamajhi, who worked on the VS show this year, said: "The idea is that you're blending in little bits of this and that from all cultures around the world." 

But to one writer at Cosmopolitan, it all just looked plain racist. 

On Wednesday, as images started leaking online from the VS runway, Cosmo's executive lifestyle editor Helin Jung wrote an op-ed titled, "Why Can't Victoria's Secret Stop Designing Racist ?"

Helen Jung's 'Cosmo' op-edSource: Mic/Cosmopolitan

In it, she slams the fashion show for "cultural " by "a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation [that] continues to take what it wants for its own gain." 

"Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China," Jung wrote. "The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner." 

Kendall Jenner at the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Source: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

To Jung, those kinds of pieces felt more like a cheap interpretation than a high-quality, respectful celebration. 

"The Orientalism on display here doesn't show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn't close any gaps," Jung continued. "What condescension, for Victoria's Secret to think that by wrapping a model in a dragon, it could connect directly with a new consumer in China." 

It was particularly insulting to Jung too because this show made history for having of Chinese models (four this time), and yet this was the year when Chinese culture was most imitated. This also wouldn't be the first time the VS Fashion Show with people being not-so-stoked about Karlie Kloss wearing a Native American-inspired headdress on the runway in 2012. 

However, by Friday, quite strangely, the article had been deleted from Cosmo's website in its entirety. (Mic was able to access it through a cached version.) Click on the original link to the story, and you're reverted to an error page with an awestruck kitten. 

Cosmopolitan's error page Source: Cosmopolitan

So what gives? Did Victoria's Secret contact Cosmo and demand it take the article down? Did Hearst, the publication company that publishes Cosmo, pull the plug itself, fearing that it'd lose any chance of working with VS ever again for advertisements or anything else? Did Cosmo delete it after t Jung's o

In any case, although Jung's own piece may have seemed extrem she has every right to think that Jenner wearing Asian-inspired boots and Elsa Hosk wearing a dragon wasn't nearly as cliché-free a display of multiculturalism as VS could have achieved. 

Mic has reached out to Cosmopolitan directly to get some answers. 

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