Art and Style | February 16, 2008 | 5 comments

Fashion is racist

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fashion-is-racist-insider-lifts-lid-on-ethnic...

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A major model agent has laid bare the racial discrimination the fashion industry is riddled with.
Premier Model Management's Carole White admitted that finding work for black clients was significantly harder than for the white models, as magazines and designers were reluctant to employ them. Models from ethnic backgrounds 'have to be perfect because we can't have a lot of diversity with black models.' At style.com, three shows chosen at random featured black models in eight out of 136 photographs taken during the week. The March issue of Vogue – with more than 400 pages of editorial and advertising – has 14 shots with black or Asian women – two of them featuring Naomi Campbell. Is this an issue industry insiders should work to tackle, or is it just a case of giving people what they want?

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5 comments // Fashion is racist

  • puella
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      puella  

    • Thanks so much for posting the video mischabarrett. What a great discussion. I am a big Bev Hardison fan. She is the real deal.

    • 1 year ago
  • ViVa
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      ViVa  

    • Honestly, I was waiting on someone to speak up about this...I was browsing through an Elle magazine at the dentist office and while turning the pages I started to count from cover to cover how many ethnic models were in the top designer campaign ads. After finishing I was aware that throughtout the whole magazine there were about 11 total with model Liya Kebede pictured twice. Have we forgot the beauty of diversity? As an african-american woman, who majored in fashion, I would love to see more of the brown tones that represent the colors of the earth and beauty of deep skinned people. It doesn't matter if they're black,latino or Asian but I think everyone should be represented.

    • 3 years ago
  • Estyn
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      Estyn  

    • Sadly true. As a bi-racial fashionista, I get a little annoyed from time to time looking at so many magazines that feature mostly models with little to no variation of coloring. with the exception of Naomi Campbell, Bruna, and Liya Kebede. I ask Maybe it's simply a difference in cultural value and development focus?

    • 3 years ago
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