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.
This from UK site of just today...all have black models.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2420398/Seven-New-York-Fashion-Week-trends-wear-spring-arrives.html
If you see an attractive black woman odds are she is half-white. If both parents just got off the boat from Kenya, odds are the kid looks exactly like them. They are not physically attractive people. God made us all different. Intermarriage turns the skin lighter and sharpens the features. Nothing racist about telling the truth. Do I have to name the good looking black women in the entertainment field to prove my point.
Me too and im a a toe headed blue eyed
Just go to the Spanish channels.
Soaps, Sabado Gigante, boxeo...
Lots of pretty girls! No Spanish required!
Bingo.
How true. Gorgeous women on the soaps.
my wife said the same thing.
SHe also noted how every local news channel , no matter where you are in the country have blacks but they are only 12 per cent of the population and yet in AD’s and news channels over 50 per cent
as you all recall, Billy Ray Cyrus was or became a big Clintoon fan....so despite him having ONE hit record, a screwy niche type one at that, he got a tv show.....and then his little tart dtr got a tv show....
so when you have to look at Myley Cyrus just remember her daddy had to kiss Clintoon butt to get her there....
agree, even many black men I know say white women are better looking and don’t come with that attitude plus they have better bodies.
Don’t forget PC is not just for the left but also the right/
It's even harder to make clothes that look good on an overweight woman, and four out of five black women are overweight or obese.
vaudine
Ironic considering the fashion industry is full of lefties.
it;’s not racist at all .
White women for me are much better looking and have better bodies with nice round butts compared to most black women who also have much more attitudes and oh that comes form many black men too.
Stop the PC nonsense
Just for fun. I keep my Negro Modello in the fridge, I like better really cold.
I’d love to know wh most black women are obese, fat butts and then give attitudes but what really gets me is how they think they’re sexy by showing their fat butts, big stomachs and bad attitude.
Where are all the black actors on all those home security ad’s?
Climbing over the fence?
LOL you noticed that too.?
Always a white guy who is robbing in the AD;s but there is nothing racist in the left eyes and minds.
Depends on the location ‘marsch. Thin is in, (or it was when I was actively participating!), when it comes to a ladies lap flaps.....
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