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Naomi Campbell: Victoria Beckham used too many white models
New York Post ^ | October 29, 2013 | Stephanie Smith

Posted on 10/30/2013 8:01:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Supermodel Naomi Campbell called out her friend Victoria Beckham for only having one model of color in her presentation during February’s New York Fashion Week.

But Campbell revealed to the UK’s Daily Mirror that she phoned the Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer personally about the matter.

Campbell, along with fellow supermodel Iman and model advocate Bethann Hardison, are spearheading advocate group Diversity Coalition, which calls for more faces of color to be used in fashion shows.

The Coalition in September wrote an open letter to governing bodies of Fashion Weeks around the globe, calling out an number of designers and brands including Armani, Donna Karan, Roberto Cavalli, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein for lack of diversity in their fashion shows.

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To: madison10

I believe it may well be...and not too well either.

a frankenmodel apparantly

where would she BE without an army of makeup “artists”???


21 posted on 10/30/2013 8:29:54 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/)
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To: ConservativeStatement

This is ridiculous.


22 posted on 10/30/2013 8:30:41 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Is she the woman who keeps slapping her servants around?


23 posted on 10/30/2013 8:31:28 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

That is one ugly bitch.


24 posted on 10/30/2013 8:34:13 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Not enough “faces of color” who are anorexic or bulimic.


25 posted on 10/30/2013 8:39:51 AM PDT by twister881
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To: ConservativeStatement

Naomi Campbell is a racist.


26 posted on 10/30/2013 8:45:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: trisham

Throws cell phones at her slaves, too.


27 posted on 10/30/2013 8:47:46 AM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Having seen the congressional hearing today it seems that there a disproportionate number of black women in the congress


28 posted on 10/30/2013 8:54:08 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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... a disproportionate number of black women in the congress

It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so doggone stupid.

29 posted on 10/30/2013 9:00:52 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: ConservativeStatement

“We are outraged about this latest racially motivated situation.”
- The Congressional Black Caucus


30 posted on 10/30/2013 9:25:29 AM PDT by headless_thompson_gunner
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To: ConservativeStatement

“This is an outrage.”
- Miss Black America producers


31 posted on 10/30/2013 9:26:01 AM PDT by headless_thompson_gunner
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