fashionlover2001
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What Bull!"As a woman of colour, I am a major advocate for ethnic diversity in the industry. As recently as last year, I cast a show exclusively featuring black and ethnic models for an important house in New York."
For being a woman of colour she sure has a lot of self hate or at least that's what I gathered many years ago. And just because you're a woman of colour doesn't escape your behaviour. You don't get a free pass.
So she cast one show with women of colour; here's a cookie Maida. And no one wants to see a gimmicky show with ALL BLACK models, ALL MIXED-RACE models, ALL ASIAN models or the all to common ALL WHITE models. We want to see a nice balanced show so we can focus on the collection.
And let's be honest if there wasn't so much scrutiny about casting underage models or NOT casting women of colour they would still be doing the same thing.
Maida and Rami are known in the industry for casting all white cast. Booking little to no women of colour. Just by simply going to vogue.com and looking at the shows they've cast over the years says a lot.
Here at the tfs we have known and complained for YEARS. There are also some designers and stylist who are guilty as-well. I'm glad to see Raf Simons has changed.