Posted on 09/13/2013 6:20:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
I didnt attend Fashion Week in New York this season. And by all accounts, I certainly made the right decision. A disturbing trend that began on the runway a few years back is continuinga trend of exclusion that is glaringly insulting and simply unacceptable to me.
Ill never forget Fashion Week in 2010, when a major designer (whom I wont name) invited me to his fall fashion collection. He messengered over a personal design for me to wear to the show, along with a note complimenting me for all my pioneering work in the industry.
In 1974, I became the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine. I continued to break down racial barriers by becoming the first black model to appear on an international cover of Elle magazine. More major fashion publications followed.
Appreciative of his comments and consideration, I accepted the designers invite and proudly took my front-row seat among other celebrities and fashion-industry notables. I sat there as endless numbers of gorgeous garments sashayed down the runway, draped over endless numbers of gorgeous bodies. I loved the detail and the glamour of it all, but as the show neared its end, I realized one unsettling omission: not one black model had strolled down the catwalk. By the time every girl came back onstagemarking the close of the showmy mouth was completely agape. Had this fashion designer actually complimented me on my role in changing the color of fashion and then invited me to a show with absolutely no black models in it at all? He most certainly had, and he clearly saw no problem with it. As reporters approached me after the show to ask my view of the designs, I waved them away, as Id forgotten every outfit that crossed my sight that afternoon. Now all I could see was red. And it wasnt a stunning red dress.
“Well, please rethink that.”
Actually, you should. Who controls the language, controls the argument. Who controls the argument, wins.
Redefining words has been a key strategy in the onslaught of the left upon all that is good and decent.
“It is, as I say, a product of early conditioning, not any form of intentional racism.”
That won’t keep PC jackals from calling you a racist.
That’s a nice picture of Mrs. O. actually. She’s got a nice smile, she should use it rather than that scowl we see so often.
You make the correct point, methinks.
They’re in rap videos hanging around with hood rats and thugs.
“Who is this dimwit?”
LOL, Beverly Johnson who I now vaguely remember as a super-model but for a while I was thinking it was Betsy Johnson, who is a fashion designer, and white, and perhap a lovely, lefty lady but no fashion model herself.
Yes simply gorgeous!
Nice platitudes, but we were talking about a specific word: "gay."
To many if not most people, "gay" no longer means what you remember that it meant. It also doesn't mean what the homosexuals wanted it to mean, which was something like "lighthearted, cheerful, and homosexual." "Gay" now has negative connotations galore. Remember the "gay plague"?
To college students where I live, the word now has an additional slang definition that I linked above, that was definitely not approved by homosexuals. I imagine that on some gay online forum, homosexuals are lamenting the corruption of "their" precious word.
If you were looking for a word that proved that no individual or group controlled the language, "gay" would be a good example.
Redefining words has been a key strategy in the onslaught of the left upon all that is good and decent.
I agree with you, but the time to fight those redefinitions is when they first appear, not decades after they have appeared in dictionaries. Fight today's winnable battles today. Fighting yesterday's lost battles is a waste of time and energy.
Look closely at your model. Green eyes, straight hair, caucasian-type hair, lips, and nose. She looks like a white girl with a tan.
“They” are all the same? Are you conducting a survey? Stereotype much?
Blacks in sprinkled conspicuously into every form of media are becoming as embarassing as lawn jockeys.
“Where are all the White people on daytime TV?
I can often flip through maybe a dozen channels I get off the air and not see a single White person. Most of the times tho there are a few. Even those times there will be more Blacks and usually be a good margin.”........
Most of those missing white people are probably working (assuming they still have a job), unlike the blacks who sit at home, watch TV and collect their welfare checks and “free stuff”. TV plays to their audience.
Perhaps when we remove the watermelons from their craniums, we might be able to find them. LOL Thanks Jimmy K.
Some of these are very beautiful indeed, but half are mixed with Latinos or Asian.
Pay no attention to some of the posters here. A young engineer that works for me is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. I’ve got a couple of pictures of her when her and her husband came out to the ranch to go deer hunting. I’d never post a pic of her without her permission but all I’ll say is she’s a head turner and a heck of a good shot.
Professional modeling is a meat market that demands youth and thin, toned, attractive people. My guess is that Beverly Johnson would not qualify as a professional model, so why bother to inject race into modeling?
It is interesting to compare the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena. Venus is one year older than Serena, but has maintained a very trim and attractive figure. Serena seems to be filling out in the wrong places and is starting to look chunky. I find Venus attractive and Serena not so much.
Vanessa Williams [no relation to Venus or Serena] is a gorgeous beauty — an absolute 10 and nearly 20 years older than the sisters. Vanessa could model a burlap sack and make it look attractive. Vanessa radiates a certain warmth and not the “attitude” the Williams sisters do. A lot of black women radiate this “attitude” and that is a major turn off for a professional model.
You have it backwards. It's the bad attitude, the ego, and the sense of entitlement that makes some women think they can become obese and still expect guys to be attracted.
yea it’s really hard to have a conversation and for them to tell you what they like .
ARF
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