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On Monday, the company tweeted images from its ad campaign, captioned "meet the kids who are proving that girls can do anything." Large Diameter Shower HeadsOne of the pictures featured a white girl with her arm propped up on a smaller black girl's head. Laminate Flooring Breaking During InstallationRead more: Twitter Is Pretty Pissed Off About This "Rape Culture" T-Shirt @GapKids so basically little black girls can be arm rest!!! Red Check Tab Top Curtainssmh this is disgusting The tweet grabbed immediate attention. White girls, it seemed to say, could apparently do anything — they could even use black girls as armrests. But as BET reported, actress Brooke Smith, the girl's mother, just chimed in with some crucial information the internet missed."

They are sisters!" she said in one tweet. //media/CfIBIYWUAAAz4XR.jpg:large "Girl with arm resting on her shoulder is her sister," she said in another tweet. "She didn't talk in [the] video because she was too shy. Everyone needs to calm down." @TheRoot girl with arm resting on her shoulder is her sister She didn't talk in video because she was 2 shy. everyone needs to calm down. Not everyone is satisfied with Smith's explanation. Sisters or not, the positioning of these two girls only reinforces an all-too-common portrayal of black people in American society, some said. @Iam_BrookeSmith @GapKids Only a small fraction of the people who will see this as will ever learn this context. @Iam_BrookeSmith @GapKids and even *with* the context, this is still off-putting. @slb79 @GapKids This picture was said to be published "completely out of context". //media/CfI2rwLUAAETbyz.jpg:large Smith agrees that it might be a good idea for Gap to go with the other photos that came out of the shoot, and would like to have a frank discussion about "race in America" — offline.

Because even if this is a big-sister-little-sister thing, it's also easy to see how it reads as casual racism, a reflection of troubling attitudes baked into American culture. According to BET, Gap has dropped the shot from its campaign.  @therealpeela I totally hear you. This is one of many photos that was taken. Perhaps they should just use the others then. @Ojoyd I'm all for an open + honest discussion of race in America. Difficult to do in twitter land but open dialogue is always a good idea.When Gap announced yesterday that it would close a quarter of its North American stores, as well as some European branches, it was just the latest round of bad news for the fashion industry. Last week, J.Crew responded to sagging sales by subbing in Somsack Sikhounmuong — the designer of its other, lower-priced brand, Madewell — for women’s design head Tom Mora. And over the past year, chains like Piperlime, C. Wonder, and Kate Spade Saturday bit the dust; independent labels, notably Band of Outsiders, Reed Krakoff, and Honor shuttered;

and mall standbys such as Abercrombie and Fitch and American Eagle Outfitters struggled. All of these brands' problems are varied, of course, but their failure does have one common denominator, and that's the extremely polarized state of the fashion industry now. Amid all the carnage, it’s useful to ask the question: Who is actually doing well? Lower-priced brands, for one. While Gap continues to struggle, the jewel in its Gap Inc. crown is currently Old Navy, which has brought in more revenue than siblings Banana Republic and Gap put together. Madewell has vastly outperformed its big-sister brand. And off-price companies like T.J.Maxx and Marshalls, and even Walmart, are prospering. (In fact, some branches of regular-priced stores, like Express and Macy's, are converting to the outlet format.)  The other bright spot? Brands that cater to the one percent — or even the .01 percent — continue to thrive, fed by the wealth of the growing super-rich class. Bespoke watches, a new ultraluxury wing of Harrods, and $10,000 wearable devices are doing just fine, thank you very much.

(It's not just fashion that is experiencing this divide between the Davos set and the dollar-store crowd: Annie Lowrey recently wrote about a similar phenomenon with gyms. The $6,000-per-year membership sector and the cheapie $120-per-year-gyms are both doing fine — it's their middle-ground competitors who are losing out.) The brands that are struggling all fall into the middle ground of their respective markets — on the other side of Old Navy, Gap faces Theory for basics, while Band of Outsiders is caught between J.Crew and Burberry. The problem for these mid-tier companies is that even shoppers who might be able to afford slightly pricier fare have been shopping downmarket. Shoppers who claim that J.Crew's sweaters are getting more expensive while also dipping in quality — check out the hashtag #revivejcrew — are likely to just buy the cheaper version from Madewell or Old Navy. And since these mid-priced stores are quick to put inventory on sale, they've trained the customer to wait for the item to go on clearance, by which time they may have already found what they want at a fast-fashion brand or an outlet.

The attempt to return Gap to its '90s heyday is a multi-decade story by now, and the market is unlikely to get easier for any of these companies. Rebekka Bay (formerly of COS) is just the latest design whiz to fail at Gap, and while Madewell has been successful under Sikhounmuong, that doesn't mean he'll be a magic bullet for J.Crew. To address customers' issues, stores like these will have to emphasize items like the Cece ballet flat that was such a hit at J.Crew — until it went from a Made in Italy original to a redesigned, manufactured-Stateside version, much to consumers' distress. Women hoarded the Cece, buying it in multiples, and it could have stayed a sellout item for decades. Smaller-scale labels like Everlane and Warby Parker have been successful with creating the affordable ultimate T-shirt, or the timeless pair of sunglasses, items people want to invest in. The mid-tier brands won't be able to compete with the trend-driven fast-fashion market, but by refocusing on quality and fit, they may be able to work their way back into people's wardrobes — especially when the ultracheap sweater that seemed like such a deal falls apart in the wash.