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Where Have All the Black Models & Designers Gone?| Clutch Digital Magazine

Read an intriguing article where writer Natalie Nichols poses the question: "Where Have All The Black Models and Designers Gone?" in Clutch, the only online fashion-beauty-lifestyle magazine for the African-American woman that is updated daily with a full issue released every Monday.

Nichols states:

"[...] in fashion, an industry that prides itself on diversity, openness, innovation, inclusion, there has been a major failure, by the powers that be, to embrace Black models and designers in greater numbers. Think I am wrong? Models of color-all ethnicities: Asian, Latino, African and so on, make up 26% of the American population [...] Hell, so-called minorities actually account for 82% of the world's population. Yet, within the fashion world, the total of working Black models equates to less than 10%. You mean to tell me this is an unintentional coincidence? I think not [...]"

Why? Nichols offers this:

"Potential talent is out there, however the financiers, fashion houses, and other potential backers are not. Fashion houses often use quotas when it comes to how many Black faces will represent on their runways, and modeling agency heads swear designers are not looking for Black girls [...]

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