Posted on 09/13/2013 6:20:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
I didn’t 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 continuing—a trend of exclusion that is glaringly insulting and simply unacceptable to me.
I’ll never forget Fashion Week in 2010, when a major designer (whom I won’t 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 designer’s 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 onstage—marking the close of the show—my 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 I’d forgotten every outfit that crossed my sight that afternoon. Now all I could see was red. And it wasn’t a stunning red dress.
exactly
er she’s not black .
Looks more like a euro woman with a suntan or at least an Hispanic with euro heritage but black she is not.
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Where's my giveadamnmeter?
it’s revolting to see and hear but it stuns me as to how they think they’re sexy.
“Nice platitudes”
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Changing the meaning of words to reframe an argument is a classic strategy. If you want to change what people think, change the words they use.
“To many if not most people, “gay” no longer means what you remember that it meant.”
Irrelevant.
“Gay” now has negative connotations galore. Remember the “gay plague?”
Irrelevant.
“I imagine that on some gay online forum, homosexuals are lamenting the corruption of “their” precious word.”
Irrelevant.
“If you were looking for a word that proved that no individual or group controlled the language, “gay” would be a good example.”
Buncombe. Just try referring to sodomites as “sodomites” instead of “gay” and see what happens to you.
“the time to fight those redefinitions is when they first appear”
When they first appear and forever thereafter, in saecula saeculorum.
“not decades after they have appeared in dictionaries.”
Dictionaries are as discredited as the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. They are, with the rest of the print media, the willing accomplices of the left.
“Fight today’s winnable battles today.”
Defeatist thinking like that has led us where we are today.
“Fighting yesterday’s lost battles is a waste of time and energy.”
If there is one thing that the present ascendency of the leftards teaches us, it is that no battle is ever lost permanently.
Fifty years ago leftards were referred to with contempt as “the lunatic fringe.” Today, they are in charge of everything. This is because they never regard any battle as lost. Any defeat is temporary, reversible.
We must adopt this same outlook.
“They” are all the same?”
To whom do you refer?
“Are you conducting a survey?”
I am still conducting a lifelong study of humanity.
“Stereotype much?”
When a stereotype is valid, yes indeedy.
I have three black daughters. One is traditionally model gorgeous.
One is not traditionally thin but she is gorgeous and like velvet. Her amazing cheekbones and voluptuous figure has men who appreciate, panting. Her love for God makes her a special gift for the right man.
My third daughter is lovely, young and shapely. Her new short haircut shows off her figure and lovely face. Her tech skills outshine the rest of us.
Are there black women that are not White-beautiful? Yes. But there are also white women who are not white beautiful. But black beautiful is gorgeous.
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