Risque names are fine as long as they don't trigger anyone. Anything ableist, fatshaming, LGBTphobic (once I saw a lipstick- can't remember the brand- called 'Tr*nny'), or potentially triggering to a rape survivor (as Deep Throat might be), does not fly in my book.
There was an eyeshadow line that had a shade called Tr**** Wreck. I was horrified and expressed how offensive it was on this very forum. No one else seemed to get the problem since it's a term used in the drag community! This is a line celebrating drag! The problem is that the trans community and the drag community are very, *very* different things. _RuPaul's Drag Race_ is *extremely* difficult for me to watch at times due to this (in fact, I only watched the first two seasons -- which I happened to have downloaded a few years ago -- as a marathon while recovering from oral surgery this past March and can't bring myself to watch any more). The thread is probably still around here somewhere. I can't bring myself to go back to it because it's very, *very* offensive to the trans community no matter what the drag community thinks.
I don't remember the actual names, but when MAC came out with a collection "inspired" by the serial killings in Cuidad Juarez. Classy.
I remember that. It was some sort of Rodarte/MAC collab for a Mexican-inspired line. There were a few bad names in that one, I think.
To be fair, it wasn't inspired by the murders themselves (there was one eyeshadow -- Sleepwalker -- that looked like bloodshot eyes to me since I had that name connected to it and like blood-spattered dirt to other people, but overall,
the colors leaned fairly wispy and dreamlike). It was inspired by the female factory workers in that city. The problem is that these women and girls are the ones targeted by the narco gangs (for starters) for kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder. And then there's the fact that these women work in horrible conditions for very little money, constantly in fear for their lives, and one of the specific visual inspirations for the line was of these women walking to work, still half-asleep because they have to get up in the middle of the night for work and then have to walk miles in the dark to get there. The names themselves were okay: Factory would be perfect for a Warhol line, Quinceanera is just a traditional celebration for Mexican fifteen-year-old girls, and Ghost Town would be great for an Old West collection. Taken as a whole with the theme, however, it was a really, *really* bad move.
Oh, and they didn't actually release it. The reaction to the announcement was so extreme that they initially said that they would donate profits to groups fighting this epidemic, and then a few weeks after that statement, they flat-out canceled the line entirely, estimated what their profits would have been, and created an organization to work on women's rights (I can't remember the details on that part).