There are fewer black women fashion models on the catwalk than there were in the 1990s, when Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks and others were still modelling. What black models do we have now to take their place?
A third of fashion shows are no better than they were in the 1950s: they have no black models at all. Most of the rest have just one or two so that it does not “look bad”.
There are hundreds of white models but only a few black ones. So you keep seeing the same ones over and over again.
New York is not quite as bad as London and Milan: British Vogue has not had a black model on its cover since Naomi Campbell last appeared in 2002. That was five years ago.
Paris is the worst: the Paris fashion show in 2007 had only one black model! Black modelling agencies that were started in Paris have either closed or shifted their business.
The Elite modelling agency, which discovered Naomi Campbell, has only two black models. Its agency in Paris says there is not enough work for more black models: Asians and Arabs do not like to see black women. But is Elite much better when it comes to Asian and Arab models? If Elite is to be believed, Asian and Arab women dream of being tall, thin white women with yellow hair. That is why there are so few black models!
Sometimes when modelling agencies try to send black models to fashion designers and magazines they are told not to send any more.
You hear the very same things in Brazil where only half the people are white.
As the blog Rachel’s Tavern points out, it has got so bad that even the New York Times has noticed.
It is not as if black women do not like clothes or fashion. Far from it.
Black America has more money than all of Brazil, which has its own fashion industry and world-famous supermodels.
So why are so few black women on the catwalk?
I am not in the fashion industry, but I have my ideas:
- The fashion industry is run by white people who have white ideas of beauty. To them black is not beautiful.
- The fashion industry is run by old white people who have old-fashioned ideas about race. But because they are successful, they think they are better than the rest of us. So if they object to seeing a black woman in a pretty dress they think the rest of us would like it even less.
- More white women seem to have the figure (or lack of it) required by modelling. Models are, in effect, walking clothes hangers. This has nothing to do with “thin is beautiful”, but with how clothes look on someone.
Naomi Campbell, for her part, says she will not leave the business till there are more black models to take her place. In Kenya she said, “I believe there are pretty girls from your lovely country who can grace the international catwalk and the front pages of fashion magazines, with proper strategies.”
See also:
- fashion model
- Crossing fashion’s ‘thin white line’
- The Modeling World is Unapologetically Racist – from Rachel’s Tavern, brought to my attention by Stephanie B. (thanks!)
- race and beauty – where this thread got started
- The all-black Vogue – can you believe it!!?
- The most beautiful black women models – my own list which I made before I even thought of writing this. Notice that it has no fashion models who are still on the catwalk.
- Black fashion models:
Abagond 
[…] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Elite Paris modelling agency has only two black models. Elite says there is not enough work for more black models: Asians and Arabs do not like to see black women. But is Elite much better when it comes to Asian and Arab models? … […]
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This thread regarding racism in the fashion industry ought to be a wake-up call for all women of color. Black women have always protested against negative or no representation in the fashion/beauty business. Fashion is run by affluent old white people whose ideas about beauty are still rooted in the 19th century. That’s sad and backward. If people stood up to Don Imus and his hateful statements regarding Black women, then we ought to boycott the fashion designers who regard Black women as less than “suitable” women. That means no products from the designer brand no matter how nice it is. This would send a powerful message to those people who insist on maintaining the status quo.
Stephanie B.
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I am convinced that Black people, Black women, must define our own standards of beauty, NOT wait on white folk to define it FOR US! We’ve got to start a “high fashion” magazine of our own, put on “high fashion shows” of our own where our folk represent. Sitting around waiting for white folk or white-identified folk to notice and/or validate us is why we’re STILL pissed about the lack of representation. I read a comment the other day on Cathy Horyn’s NYT blog where a reader responded to someone’s notice of the lack of black models in the recent shows. This reader came back with something like, “that’s not true! there were a couple of Asians and mixed raced girls!” Putting racially ambiguous and/or Asian girls in the shows is high fashion’s “answer” to the complaints, but it STILL doesn’t address the problem of the NOTICEABLE ABSENCE of dark skinned models. See, what this is, is a “black out” of sorts. These people (the old, rich, monied white folk) have a particular aversion to DARK SKIN. It’s frightening, really. It’s gonna take more than Naomi Campbell to shout from the rooftops. Folks have to get behind this on principle.
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When the Jews in New York could not get into banking because the WASPs would not hire them, they started their own banks, like Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers.
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I am a young black woman who has tyried to get into the modelling business. many people have told me I am beautiful and so have the agencies. They have wnated me to join their agencies however I am thooughly appalled at how few black modls there are. It is because we are vuluptuous, wll figured women yet the past still haunts us. The youth isn’t helping our image any by acting like fool. We must take on the responsibility to get our women on the runways and in magazines. Let us be the ones to take hold of our futur in the fashion industry, not wait for the white folk to give it to us. They have proved that they think we are nothing but morons and no better than slaves.
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I have always wanted to be a model,but the good agencies that i have visited seemed to be so racist. some have told me how i resemble so much like Grace Jones and they are willing not to represent me. It is upsetting, but is about time for blacks to come to their six senses and do something for ourselves. I believe that we black women are so beautiful, we need to unite and help one another. The Ebony and Essence Magazines are not doing anything refering to fashion. We need to have our own “B Vogue” meaning black vogue were you have alot of black models and also new faces from other parts of Africa. We can’t sit around and see the whites degrade us. Now it is the millinium not in the slavery time where blacks had no rights.
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The fact that there are not a lot of black models in Paris on on the catwalk does not simply prove that the modeling world is racist (not that I’m saying is not), but you have to look at everything, like were there girls like Naomi Campbell that went on castings for Paris Fasion Week? I mean does race even matter? Is it possible that the best models were chosen to walk, rather than us overthinking that there may be an underlaying racial issue here.
Like what was said, I think the best girls should have been chosen, regardless of their race. It is demeaning to throw someone in there to make things look good. For example if there were only white doctors in the world, does it matter that they’re white and there are no Black, Asian, or Hispanic doctors? As long as they’re good at what they do and know what they doing (I mean personally I would like a diversified community). I just think we all are quick to jump to conclusions because the race issue has been implanted in our mind.
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Before I wrote this post I did some research on the Web in both English and Portuguese. It was the same story everywhere: there is not enough modelling work for black models. Modelling agencies say the designers and advertisers prefer white women.
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Hey Abagond…nice to see someone who really supports gorgeous Black women from everywhere…but I’ve gotta wonder about the “long hair” comment.
I’m 100% Nigerian, dark chocolate, almond shaped eyes, full lips and guess what?
I have NATURAL long, jet black hair that’s thick and soft, honey.
So, to answer your question: YES. We do have it all 🙂
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Wow. Some black women in America and the West Indies have naturally long hair, I know, but I have always assumed it was because they were part white or Indian. I did not know that a pure black woman could have hair like that.
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Well I have a theory as to why some people think pure Africans don’t have long hair…it relates to your comment about Alek Wek.
Whenever the fashion industry do pick black women…they only come in 2 forms: mixed with green eyes and longish hair or bald and dark chocolate.
This view is constantly pushed and that’s why I think people see me as an anomaly and think I’m mixed, when I’m not.
Such stereotypes are offensive, personally…but that’s because someone once told me “Oh, you have such European features” and made it seem as if that’s why others like how I look.
I had to let him know that I have purely African features 😉 and that’s what draws others to me because of who I am, not what I’m not.
I just don’t understand why Africa is the birthplace of all races and civilizations, and yet people want to limit us into 2 categories?
We come in such combinations and it’s not because we’re all supposedly racially mixed.
In my family alone, the color spectrum ranges from deep chocolate to honey complexions and yet we’re NOT part Indian, part White or whatever. We’re all completely Nigerian.
Also, when it comes to hair…I think alot of non-Black people (and some Black people) just don’t understand our hair. Our hair is usually curly, so it grows up and out as opposed to white or asian hair that is (usually) straight and falls flat.
It’s kinda like this: if you took a white girl with shoulder length curly hair and another white girl with shoulder length STRAIGHT hair…you’d say they’re about the same right?
Well, I bet if you were to gently stretch the curl of her hair or blow dry it, you’d see the curly haired girl actually has longer hair than the straight-haired one.
It’s the same with our hair. Our hair is usually a tight curl…so when I wear my hair naturally…I look like I have a crown of curls, but when I blow dry it or let it air dry, it’s past my shoulders.
So…there you go…hope that clarified…well EVERYTHING…*hahahaha* 🙂
(I try to leave no stone unturned) LOL
ttyl
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Thanks for that. I think we here in America forget how vast and varied Africa is.
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racism is the bane of our society..it’s about time blacks go their seprate ways from those white racists! many whites are ignorants congenital racists to the core you can never change them….period.
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Chanel Iman got the inner flap. Vogue is very wise to pick her. Kill two minorities in one.
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ABAGOND,I WAS GLAD WHEN I SAW YOUR WRITE UP ABOUT BLACK MODELS.I RUN ONE OF THE BEST AND LARGEST MODELING AGENCY IN NIGERIA.I GET LOTS OF JOBS BOTH LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH THE BLACK PEOPLE.MOST MAGAZINES COVER PAGES,FASHION DESIGNERS ETC THAT ARE OWNED BY NONE BLACKS DO NOT LOVE TO PATRONISE US.
I FEEL WE WOULD START TO GET THE RECOGNITION WE DESERVE WHEN WE(BLACKS) START TO APPRECIATE WHAT WE HAVE.WE HAVE THE BEST SET OF MODELS IN THE WORLD.
WE NEED TO BELIEVE MORE IN OUR TALENTS.
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I agree. There is more than enough black beauty, talent and money out there.
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I am a very beautiful black woman, yet I can’t get not one call back from these white agencies, I know for a fact I look much better than many of those women in the magazines.One day I went to an audition and the Lady told me I’m beautiful with a lovely smile but my butt is too big, I was shocked I’m only 103 standing @ 5’3.She really wanted to say your black. My dream has been crushed so many times but I’ll find my way in.
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You should read about Liris Crosse if you have not already:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/liris-crosse/
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I am a light skinned arab and I’ll admit that arab women have desired the fair skin and blonde haired women in the past but things have changed so much now. My mother is an arab woman in her 50s and she, as with a lot of other arab women, believes that black and olive skinned, dark haired women are better looking than the washed out blondes, although coloured eyes are still very desirable for most arabs (lol).
I agree with Aisha’s comment that black models shouldn’t be thrown in just to make things look good. Modelling should be based purely on talent not on the colour of skin, and yes it shows that racism is still implanted in the minds of whites AND blacks.
I’d also like to add, there are so many black celebrities out there who are rich and high profile enough to start their own black magazines, modelling agencies and catwalks, heck they could start their own countries! They have as much power as any old white man out there to showcase the beauty of many black woman to the rest of the world. GO ON AND BE INDEPENDENT, DON’T WAIT AROUND!
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I have a post on “thick black women”. It gets a surprising number of hits from the Middle East – but very few from East Asia.
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I don’t doubt you are very pretty but at 5’3″ aren’t you way too short for a model? I think there are like only 2 I know of that are not at least 5’10” At 5′ 3″ are you not setting yourself up for failure? I have a friend who is 5′ 5″ ad there is nothing for her too. Auto shows local stuff but no chance at big time cause she is too short. Maybe you could be an actress
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Autumn is right about the voluptuousness aspect of black women. For some reason, fashion does not find boobs and hips appealing and by fashion, I mean those who control the purse strings and so dictate what walks on the ramp. Unfortunately ,it is also true about Arabs not caring for black females on their covers. They have enough brunettes, blondes fascinate them more :)…and they are purse string holders.Lol
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man i wish i could start some kind of fashion magazine for all races when i get older. and sizes. cause im 5’4 and 14 years old and as much as i’d like to be 5’8″ im sure i’ll only grow like 2 inches or so at this point. i mean why do models have to be soo tall? and i hate the anorexic looking models. gross. and whats wrong with having a butt?? i mean you cant really change that if your already skinny. i dont get why that cant be percieved as pretty for those angencies. im getting sick of seeing the asme blonde blue eyed models everywhere. i mean sometimes its pretty but like when reading my fave magazine teenvogue sometimes it goes a bit overboard and im like why do these girls all look the same??? and i hate that teenvogue doesnt do a lot of things for black people.. like when they talk about how to fix your hair or like bronzers.. like im just like one of the girls who commented here from Nigeria. my roots are all Cameroonian (btw its the country next to Nigeria) and me and my siblings and cousins are the first generation to live in america (tho me and my sis were born in london. i lived there like 6 years. i wanna move back! holy crud i luv it there. Cameroon’s amazing too. i lived there for a year and trust me its not all poverty and stuff. it was tons of fun with my other cousins and stuff there), lol ANYWAYS besides my life story, mt point is that teenvogue doesnt give hair advice to people with the hair i have.. my mom doesnt wanna perm it yet cause apparently its not good for your hair, but its like thick tiny curls, and if i were to straighten it, by now it would be super long. but as of now i just wear it in braids most of the time with mesh in it as well.. i dont think ive ever seen a model on the catwalk with that kind of hair. i dont get why they have to either perm all african hair, give them weave, or just shave it all off. ugh.
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I would love to go to Cameroon some day!
Vogue is famously white, so I am not surprised about what you say about teenvogue.
There are hair magazines for black women, at least in New York, like “Hype Hair”and “Black Beauty” from London, which is mainly about hair.
And, of course, on the Interent there are bulletin boards, websites and blogs, like Nappturology 101 and Hairs My Story.
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The model industry follow a very strict cateiria for a models look. Not only black women are being discriminated against, many other women who don’t have that certain look are not being hired. A good example is the weight issue. The people cast model DO NOT represent the idea of what beauty is! Just because a few close minded people in the model industry do not hire black women does not mean the whole country don’t find black women attractive. I don’t get why people are so concern about black women and models, people should be more concern about black women getting being able to get a job after they are finish with college.
Look at the ugly crap they have models wearing, why hold their view of beauty so high. I like to see you talk about how you would never see a white women on a blacks mens magazine. Isn’t that discrimination to?
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What the fashion industry pushes as beautiful has had a huge effect on ideas of beauty all over the world. It has affected the way leading women look in Hollywood and what kinds of women are shown in Playboy.
While most people would agree that fashion models are too thin, their very idea of “thin” has been affected by those models.
Black women are told in a thousand little ways that they are not beautiful. And most of these messages come directly or indirectly from the fashion industry.
So, sorry, it matters.
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Please contact me if you are looking for a model in Riyadh! I have had some previous experience.
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i want to be a model can i join you people to become one.
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Fashion designers like very thin women because clothes hang from them like they do a clothes hanger. They do not design 3D clothes but 2D. Also it is a lot easier to dress a woman who has nothing to hide, anything can be emphasised the designer wants. Big women have parts of their bodies they want to emphasise and parts they want to cover up and designers who can do this, don’t want to. Look at the very top black models like Alek Wek and Naomi Campbell. Thin, thin, thin.
If you want to model you have to be tall and thin with really great smooth skin. If you don’t have these attributes then you are going to find it really hard to get work.
However there is one aspect of modelling that is overlooked. If you are a standard size (10 in the UK) – by standard I mean clothes of that size almost always fit you and look good – and at least 5’6″ tall then you can get work in garment districts as a showroom model. These girs are often receptionists as well and when a client comes, they model the clothes. Because they are modelling clothes that the stores are buying you have to be that standard size, but not thin. At wholesale fashion shows, which are great fun, these same girls work on the stands showing off the clothes and on the catwalk as well. If the company produces catalogues, they will do those as well. In London where I buy clothes for my boutique there are plenty of black girls doing this work. You can either get into it by going into the showrooms nicely, fashionably dressed in an outfit that shows your figure (not your sex appeal), like jeans and a top, or go to the wholesale shows (beg your way in) and go around the stands asking.
There is plenty of modelling outside of magazines and the haute couture catwalks that people should consider.
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Thanks. Great comment.
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I was there when Esther Williams won the Ms Supligen Brand Nu Model 2008 national UK competition run by the Voice Newspaper (London). The Voice did this competition to find a black model to be used to counteract the racism in the London Fashion industry. Esther is 5’9″ and is 33″-24″-35″. Anyone will know that these are good stats for all aspects of modelling. She wears a natural mid length afro (no weave, perm or extensions). She has since, and previously visited many modelling agencies and has always been told that she has the correct stats and looks but they haven’t got enough work for black models so can’t take her onto their books. So those who think that the best models happen to be mostly white, you truly don’t understand. Those who think that agencies imply that they don’t want you because you are black don’t quite know the scene either. Agencies blatantly tell Esther that they can’t take her on because she is black, after adding their apologies for the industry and how they want to take her but know that they can’t find her work. See Esther on http://www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=693245 . Esther also does not want to show naked boobs but would rather show black women respectfully dressed in high fashion clothes and with an afro. What’s wrong with that? Nothing!
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“Before I wrote this post I did some research on the Web in both English and Portuguese. It was the same story everywhere: there is not enough modelling work for black models. Modelling agencies say the designers and advertisers prefer white women.”
Research on the web is not enough, one has to be in it. I worked from 1993 to 1997 for NYC Model management as a runway girl. It is not about race, it is about presentation. Runway models are hangers pretty much. bodies are meant to be slender and they are meant to be tall. The look they present naturally should grab your attention and MAKE you look at them. Thus, Runway models are not only white. They are unique looking. They have facial characteristics that are not necessarily considered beautiful and they are somewhat androgynous. Most black women have very feminine, rounded features. Runway models have sharp angular features that most blacks don’t find attractive. One exception is Alek Wek. Sudanese women are considered to have the most beautiful bodies in the world and they have always had this reputation in the eyes of Europe. Sudanese women are lithe, tall and narrow.
Black women need to get over themselves when it comes to different aspects of Modeling. Runway has requirements just as print. It is nothing like America’s top model as it is very separate in it’s Categories. There are plenty of black(east and central) African women on the catwalks. Voluptuous figures and soft delicate features just don’t attract the attention and the clothes don’t hang well when you too much flesh. I am sorry. If you want to model, go where your looks take you. Most of the girls on the runway are the same girls everyone picked on as children because of their looks being different. Now it is their turn, get out of the way. Go and protest somewhere else.
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Thank you for a model’s point of view. Most of the comments I saw on the Web were from those who ran model agencies, either complaining (if they were black) or making excuses (if they were white) about how it is hard to find work for black fashion models.
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I am so amazed at this website which I have been looking at to find a beautiful black woman to paint. I am white and find all women beautiful,even websites have been difficult to find. I’m so sorry that there is so much prejudice. If we only realised that we are all the same and loved place.
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It is sad to see little diversity in the world. I have been reading the comments and everyone here have shared some really important points. I think the fashion industry has forgotten that BEAUTY IS DIVERSITY…it is the natural order of things. Every country, region, and continent has Diversity…..I agree with the posters who have pointed out that Africa is a very diverse continent. There are so many ethnic groups and beautiful features in Africa…skin tones and hair types…from straight (and I’m not speaking about white or Asian-Africans) to everything in between, to tightly curled. However, I am an aspiring male model from the Caribbean/West Indies and I have been commented for my unique look and have managed to garner some interest from at least two good agencies but at least agencies are hiring Black women…..no one is hiring the Brothers, what about us? When last has a their been a brother who has made great impact other than Tyson Beckford?
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Hip hop culture has also had a seriously damaging effect and validated the aims of the rascist contigent. In fairness why has the black diaspora celebrated the degradation of the women in videos which are blasted 24/7 around the globe. I am west african, nigerian and have (for example) had japanese people in Brussels approach me with hip hop gestures salutes and faux ghetto language. I am not commenting on the appropriateness of that nor did I find it immediately offensive. What is interesting is the one dimensional nature of it. They approached me to take a photo (with a black person for the sake of it) and their notions of my culture were clearly influenced by “urban” culture which was not something that I am as synched in as they may imagine. The other problem about ownership of this one dimensional image that has been projected of “ourselves” by “ourselves” is that it is actually fundamentally materialistic, ignorant and uncultivated which the majority of black people transcend in reality. If we look at the diminshing of black models over time I bet we will see a correlation with the prevalence of hip hop culture whereby you actually become successful and influential and choose to project in living vivid colour a crassness that befits a criminal. I am fervant in my love of the diaspora but it seems to me that the predominance (as ooposed to just the rise of hip hop culture allowing our beautiful women to be seen as usually gyrating strip stars) has cheapened the diverse beauty that we know we have and handed an arsenal of amunition to those who think that we are not elegant enough to be anything other than ignored.
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Nigerian Nefertiri,about what she said about herself and her family having “purely African features “, she also went on to say, “In my family alone, the color spectrum ranges from deep chocolate to honey complexions and yet we’re NOT part Indian, part White or whatever. We’re all completely Nigerian.” well ms Purely Nigerian, let me allow you to know that so many black slaves and so many black women were raped, and some willing had sexual intercourse with white people and other races, that these other genes now run through our(black people)veins. just because your immediate family may not be white, or india, doesn’t mean that you didn’t inherit those genes from way back then. There is something which people refer to as ‘ a strike back’. This is if your great great great great great great grandmother or grandfather,etc or your ancestors if you may,may have had sexual relations with a white man, and the result of that was a black baby girl with long fluffy curly hair,then,that child grows up and has sexual relations with a blackman(and not a whiteman) and the result of that might be a black baby boy with what we call negro hair(because he is black and because his hair is negro does not mean that we did not get the white gene),then he grows up and have relations with a black woman, and they have a brown skinned baby with medium length hair(the gene resurfaces). you see, some people would say that the child doesn’t look like the parents, some might even go as far as to say that the child isn’t theirs, but the truth of the matter is that one MUST remember where it started. white man and black woman,or vice verse. The gene still stays alive and surfaces every now and again during reproduction. And ms,Nigeria, maybe you do have European features, maybe not to you, but sometimes we miss things that people do observe, and it might just be one part of you that might be european. anyway. thats my input.
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1. We do not always know the truth about our ancestors. People are lied to about who their true father is, especially in the old days.
2. White people came from black people. So, apart some mutated genes, all the genes that make up white people came from black people. So what Nigerian Nefertiri says is not out of the question.
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I do wish there were more black models but not the Tyra Banks/Naomi Campbell types. I feel that we cancel out our beauty when we flaunt hair that is not ours…hence straight hair. yeah, some blacks have naturally straight hair blah blah blah…we all know that true African hair is kinky. I wish their were models that looked like Jill Scott..that’d give me such a confidence boost to see a real black woman embracing and showcasing her beauty. Instead of wannabe black barbies doing the job…
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I agree.
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The thing about what is thought of as pretty is mostly economic. i did a paper for a class a came up with these facts:
Youth- they want you to think that being young is attractive so older women may buy anti-aging treatments. That industry alone is worth 20 billion dollars and growing.
2. Thinness- they want you to believe that being thin is attractive so women who are normal or over weight may buy things that will help them lose weight. That industry is worth 40 billion to 100 billion.(varies between foods, programs, equipment, DVDs, pills, etc.)
3. Perfect Skin- You got to have clear skin, not one imperfection is attractive( in cases it is not). Cosmetic industry is worth 60 billion dollars and growing. ( not every women wears make-up, but if every women did it will probably be worth more and also make-up doesn’t cost that much.) Also the skin care industry is worth 43 billion dollars and growing.
4. Perfect facial features and body parts- Nose jobs and breast surgeries are common. The cosmetic surgery industry is worth 110 billion dollars and growing.
5. Being blonde- A lot of celebrities are dying their hair blonde. ( Growing number of bottle blondes). most popular hair die
6. white make-up that covers you’re whole body is becoming popular. Beyonce did use it in other countries that praise whiteness is a picture on the internet somewhere
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the rich blacks successful and celebrity, should get together and create a high profile fashion magazine. with majority blacks, and then your token non-black (sorta how the white magazines do it).
make it as powerful and equal to all the other magazines out there.
then out of a threat of serious competition more white people will start hiring blacks, just because they want to beat the competition.
i know its a wrong reason to hire blacks, but its probably the only possible way.
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I love that idea!
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I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH MODELLING AGENCEY IN PARIS,,,CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME CONTACTS OF AGENCEY OR MODELS,,,I AM IN ITALY WITH FASHION MODELLING AGENCEY
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I do not know anyone in Paris. Or even in the modelling world in New York. Sorry.
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black women are more beautiful than white women, that is a fact we all know deep down!!! just look at our shape ,noises,colour,hair and facial features that’s why the fashion world hates us coz if they hired us the wouldn’t be space for white models!!! thats why racism is still alive
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Some models of African descent
A list of the models from the video description.
*Tyra Banks
*Selita Ebanks
*Naomi Campbell
*Emanuela de Paula
*Oluchi Onweagba
*Chanel Iman
*Sessilee Lopez
*Noemie Lenoir
*Ajuma Nasenyana
*Arlenis Sosa Peña
*Aminata Niaria
*Jessica White
*Lyndsey Scott
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Is it me or do all the models on the vogue cover look like the same girl just with slightly .. slightly different hair? It’s so obvi that they through in the one black girl just to “have one” She is by far the most interesting girl to look at because she actually stands out, It’s so boring, there are no different body shapes, mostly all white (minus one) skin colors, and all have straight hair textures … really please come on!!!
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yall black folk are so comical, what with the horrible spelling, blame, and paranoia.
“those white people are scared well take over”…….
“its cause were black”……
maybe this whole thread could be avoided by valuing an education and just doing what it takes to get the job you want. instead of assuming its what you blame everything on, maybe try to figure out what all it takes to get your foot in the industry.
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@ James
You White folk are even more entertaining over @ stormfront.
Impereal Cyclops1:“Hay, yuo skinheds need to cleen up and stop brangin’ the white race down wiht your durty tatoos and funy harecutz!!”
Arian Night:“F*** you old fartz Klan!! Knowbodies gonna tell mee sheit aboud how ta act!!! Shuddupt you stoopid old hikc!”
Maybe you people should place a higher value on education and invest more money in dentists?
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@James
You white folk are FARRR more comical than we could ever be. I mean with all of the, “whites are an endangered species” to the “white ppl are the REAL oppressed minorites” comments you guys make haves me filled with laughter!
How about you climb out of your ivory tower of ignorance and educate yourself about the world around you.
Oh, and just in case you didn’t know education has NOTHING to do with race discrimination in the fashion industry
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What can I say? Fashion model, Fatima Siad, is very beautiful.
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@Bulanikgirl:
She has this elegant beauty that I just cannot get enough of.
I love her profile. Very photogenic.
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Wow, no one actually made the business argument here so I will:
You see, in the United States, Black women represent on 5% of the total population according to the US Census Bureau 2010. If I were an apparel designer and I need 6 models, why would I hire a Black model, especially if there are hundreds of Whites who actually represent the vast majority of my buyers?
It is not racism, it’s pure dollars and sense. No doubt Black women are gorgeous but as retailer/designer, I have to market to my demography
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The demographics argument sounds likely but the facts do not support it. There are only half as many black fashion models as you would expect from simple demographics:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/new-york-fashion-week-and-models-of-colour/
American television, film and fashion are all whiter than you would expect. Only advertising seems to follow the demographics.
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White people are controlling the standard of beauty and they fear us and want to keep us out of it. I don’t support the fashion industry at all these days. @Jay, ur talking racism and u whites always use “dollars and sense” to promote ur racist practices. Black people need to pull away from this racist industry and do our own thing..We have to stop beliveing we need whites to get the job done.
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And the only time whites use black fashion models or actresses is when the masses start getting bored as they do inevitably with these bland white actresses, the only white actress I would pay to see in a film these days is Megan Fox, the rest bore me to tears.
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