The New York Times recently published an article about the absence of black models from catwalks in NY, LA, London, Paris and Milan.
“Although black women in the United States spend more than $20 billion on apparel each year” the article quotes, “it was hard to discern an awareness of this fact on the part of designers showing in New York, where black faces were more absent from runways than they have been in years.”
Pictured, Honorine Uwera and Quiana Grant.
The article goes on to say: “Agents blame designers for the current state of affairs. Designers insist agents send them nothing but skinny blondes. Magazine editors bemoan the lack of black women with the ineffable attributes necessary to put across the looks of a given season.” Read the article here.
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