the Fashion Spot in the News ... Clippings, Snippets & Mentions

[t-rex]

The December issue of US Elle published a comment by liberty33r1b regarding the October/Miley issue, page 72. I hope this never happens to me!

 

[GivenchyHomme]

The December issue of US Elle published a comment by liberty33r1b regarding the October/Miley issue, page 72. I hope this never happens to me!

It's not a negative comment. I don't see why you wouldn't want that featured.

Elle Digital

 

[Scotty]

Are you kidding? I would love it, imagine the promo!

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | tFS member quotes on Apple News

 

[Benn98]

It's Elle, not Vanity Fair. They're not interested in any form of criticism, however constructive, because that will highlight their inadequacies to their hoodwinked readers.

Off topic, but I've noticed an overall drop in readers letters in magazines. It's very odd.

 

[lucy92]

There was another TFS member quote in the elle US september 2017 issue.

 

[lucy92]

Mentioned in the nytimes here

 

[HeatherAnne]

Well done members who compiled some of those stats in the thread, when The NY Times is quoting your figures that's about as legit as it gets.

 

[dsamg]

TFS was cited in an article in the Australian Financial Review (our Wall Street Journal)
http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/fashio...er&Email_name=TheBrief-1004&Day_Sent=04102017

 

[BetteT]

Seems like lots of other media follow our Diversity Reports on our Home Page. (Of note, the Editorial Diversity Reports came AFTER our members started a thread, in 2005, about that very topic. Here is the original post ... http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f121/racial-diversity-modeling-23207.html and the latest of a 3 part thread:
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f96/racial-diversity-modeling-3-a-263363-20.html)



Here it is mentioned in NYLON: https://nylon.com/articles/the-fashion-spot-fall-2018-diversity-report

The results are in for The Fashion Spot’s seasonal runway report, that analyzes castings on the runways of New York, London, Milan, and Paris, and they mark a big improvement for diversity and transgender inclusivity.

And ... in ELLE: https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/news/a40538/2017-diversity-fashion-industry/

The Fashion Spot's latest report reviewed 782 cover appearances over 49 top international publication, and found that 32.5 percent featured people of colour, which is a 3.5 percent increase from last year.

There's more ... just wanted to point out a couple of them.

 

[Benn98]

I think the Diversity Reports were developed at just about the right time. This forum kicked off the conversation way before it actually became topic du jour. Our Racial Diversity in Modelling may not be very active right now, but I reckon it laid down the foundation for that report and just about every clickbaitey Daily Mail article feighning shock at the abysmal lack of diverse faces on runways and magazines.

 

[MissMagAddict]

Anna Ewers recently learned that technology is not always a friend. “My dad found The Fashion Spot, and he checks it every day,” the quiet 25-year-old German says of the website that features fashion news and hosts forums. Ewers, who in heavy eye makeup bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Brigitte Bardot, laments that from frequenting the site, her father learned of the smoking habit she’d kept secret from her family.

source | wsj

 

[Scotty]

Even before social media, Ward was one of the first models to have a fervent online fanbase; the Ward forums on the Fashion Spot are well over a thousand pages long, and to this day, if you’re scrolling through certain corners of Tumblr, it’s pretty much guaranteed you’ll stumble across one of Ward’s editorials.

Gemma Ward Is Finally Ready to Make Her Comeback

 

[MulletProof]

the ward forums.. ok..

 

[Armani]

Naomi Campbell posted the NYFW S/S 2019 Diversity Report:

 

[Nymphaea]

Luxury fashion challenged to confront racist attitudes

MILAN (AP) — When luxury fashion lined up social media posts to show solidarity with Black Lives Matters protests, brands got a whole lot of blowback.

Transgender model and actress Munroe Bergdorf jumped on L’Oreal’s #BlackoutTuesday posts to accuse the beauty brand of hypocrisy for having fired her three years ago when she complained about racism in strong language. U.S. actor Tommy Dorfman, who appears in a recent campaign for Salvatore Ferragamo, called out the Italian luxury brand for what he called a ’’homophobic and racist work environment.”

And ordinary Instagram followers piled on, challenging fashion houses to do more than post a black square on their virtual real estate, to instead make runways, magazine covers, boardrooms and creative studios living showcases of diversity.

Global fashion brands have faced racial backlashes in the past, notably in the wake of scandals like the Gucci knitwear recalling blackface, Prada’s Little Black Sambo bag charm and Dolce&Gabbana’s anti-Asian comments.

The U.S protests against systemic racism, which are spreading around the globe, are also putting the spotlight on the fashion world in its role as a cultural beacon, and emboldening insiders -- some with lucrative deals that often assume their discretion -- to speak up.

‘’People have the fire under their bottoms,” said Tamu McPherson, an American content creator based in Milan who collaborates with top luxury brands. “Their stories are strong and their voices are being heard. If they industry ignores them, they can be kept accountable. Everyone is sharing, and corroborating, their stories.’’

McPherson has been working with luxury brands in Milan, Paris and New York since 2013, contributing to digital campaigns, story-telling and in-house diversity training.

’’In seven years, I am still one of the only black people invited into those spaces. That is unacceptable,” said McPherson, who urged greater racial inclusion in a letter posted June 6 on her ‘’All the Pretty Birds’’ website, in which she described the fashion industry as ’’steeped in racism, anti-Blackness and white privilege.″

”For years, they did not want to listen. Now they are listening because of the pandemic and the shocking murders we could all pay attention to, because there were not any distractions. This is the moment,″ she said.

Ferragamo courted criticism when it responded to the protests with a post that said, ”No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.″

Dorfman shot back that people at the fashion house ”have said heinous, transphobic, body phobic and racist things directly to me. I called them out every time and they promised to change.″

A person close to Ferragamo said that the brand is committed to inclusivity, noting that it features models of all colors in its runway shows. Nearly half of Ferragamo’s Fall 2020 runway models were of diverse races.

The pushback against the industry has had some early results. Bergdorf, who was sacked as L’Oreal UK’s first openly transgender model in 2017 for decrying ’’the racial violence of white people,″ has now accepted a role as consultant on the U.K. Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board to help ’’influence and inform the brand.″ The offer came after she highlighted the hypocrisy of the beauty company’s June 1 statement that it “stands in solidarity with the Black community, and against injustice of any kind ... Speaking out is worth it.”

The Fashion Spot, which has been tracking diversity on runways and magazine covers, has reported progress since launching its surveys in 2015. The Spring 2020 season had the highest level of diversity on runways in the four main fashion cities of Paris, Milan, New York and London, at 41.5%, only to dip for the Fall 2020 shows, to 40.6%. That remains an improvement from 17% in the website’s inaugural survey for Spring 2015.

New York and London have led in diversity, while Paris and Milan tend to lag, according to the Fashion Spot’s data.

After her post, McPherson said she has gotten feedback from some brands that her appeal was being shared internally.

’’The focus truly is on getting representation of Black, Indigenous and people of color integrated and hired at all levels of an organization, especially in decision-making positions and senior roles where they can advocate, educate and inform decisions,” McPherson said. ’’Now is the opportunity to rebuild.″

After coming under fire for designs deemed racist, both Gucci and Prada last year announced long-term strategies to both promote diverse voices that have not been properly represented in fashion, including with scholarships.

This time, the reckoning has gone to the fashion world’s highest levels. Anna Wintour has apologized in an internal email for not doing enough to elevate Black voices and publishing images and stories that have been racially and culturally ’’hurtful and intolerant” during her 32-year tenure at Vogue. Her comments came as Samira Nasr was named the first editor in chief of color in the 153-year history of U.S. Harper’s Bazaar.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell -- the first Black woman to appear on the cover of French Vogue -- is publicly calling for equal pay for models of color and more representation generally, while acknowledging that in the past she has chosen to deal privately with such issues.

“It is not something I call out, because I am personally someone who wants to rise to the challenge,” she told CNN. But she said, ‘’in my business, it has gone on for long enough.’’

Adamson reported from Paris. Leanne Italie in New York contributed.

apnews

 

[Cute]

The user behind that IG is/was a tTS user
How Style Not Com Became the Darling of the Front Row

 

[Scotty]

The user behind that IG is/was a tTS user
How Style Not Com Became the Darling of the Front Row

Damn it. Where is my big break?!

 

[HeatherAnne]

Anyone know what his username was?

 

[KoV]

Anyone know what his username was?

tarsha, I think