Year after year I see minorities pushed and strong armed off and on the runways. One month they are fad and the next the designers treat them like a plague. Its saddening :(. Black, Hispanic, and Asian American's account for a substantial amount of this Billion dollar industry yet they are still a minority in the pages. But wait there is a little light at the end of the tunnel. Recently their has been a consistent turn out of black models and Asian (both yellow and brown), hispanics in more editorials and grabbing the spot light on major campaigns. Joan Smalls, along side with Paolo Roldan ( who I hope to see a lot more of) and Ming Xi, appearance in the Givenchy Fall Winter 2010 ads was a major boost in her career.
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| Givenchy FW 2010 Shot by: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott |
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| Givenchy FW 2010 Shot by: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott |
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| Givenchy FW 2010 Shot by: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott |
I think it helped spread some shine on a lot of the new face breaking through especially current it girl Melodie Monrose. I love her new editorial shot by
Sølve Sundsbø.
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Shot by: Solve Sundsbo December 2010 Interview "Seeing Double"
Model: Melodie Monrose, Anais Mali |
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Shot by: Solve Sundsbo December 2010 Interview "Seeing Double"
Model: Melodie Monrose, Anais Mali |
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Shot by: Solve Sundsbo December 2010 Interview "Seeing Double"
Model: Melodie Monrose, Anais Mali |
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Shot by: Solve Sundsbo December 2010 Interview "Seeing Double"
Model: Melodie Monrose, Anais Mali |
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Shot by: Solve Sundsbo December 2010 Interview "Seeing Double"
Model: Melodie Monrose, Anais Mali |
Givenchy is now making headline for including fashions first albino model in a major campaign. Stephen Thompson.
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| Givenchy SS 2011 Shot by: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott |
Wonderland Magazine features an all black male trio in Browne's SS 2011 collection:
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| Wonderland Magazine 2010 Shot by: Way Perry Models: Salieu Jalloh, Henry Watkins and new face Ambrose Carte | | |
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| Wonderland Magazine 2010 Shot by: Way Perry Models: Salieu Jalloh, Henry Watkins and new face Ambrose Carte |
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Also featured is Model Rose Cordero Shot by
Driu & Tiago
Fresh New face to look out from Wilhemina new faces Viancey:
Not to mention or under value Chanel Iman's debut as an official angel in this year's Victoria Secret Fashion Show 2010 also accompanied by model's like Liu Wen's appearance who has also been scooping up major campaigns left and right like Estee Lauder, Benetton, Calvin Klein and the Gap. Other Publications have started to follow such as W Magazine, and even GQ. I just wish the so called power house magazines like Vogue (Anna Wintour) and Bazaar (Stephen Gan Creative Director) do a better job . They are still in my opinion piss poor about getting diversity on the pages. Men's magazines like VMan and Details are also guilty of white washed pages (designers your not excluded! from this Semi rant LOL). Isn't Stephen Gan Asian by the way??? (editor of V publications and founder of Visionare Magazine.) He annoys me too (rolling eyes)! this sounds like a disgruntled ex employee of Vogue lol but it has a lot of truth to it. lol:
http://naiveboy.com/tag/stephen-gan/
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| Shot by: Craig Mcdean Estee Lauder SS 2011 Model: Liu Wen |
Till this day are very few non white Photographers shooting for major publications also. Designers like Diane Von Furstenberg, Givency Vivienne Westwood, and Alexander McQueen I love because they always been pioneers of change and diversity. I'm sure there is more but they are just my favorites. I guess everyone has their own agenda and no one is making enough noise about it SMH ::sigh::.
