‘You’re wrong for fashion’: Confessions of a black fashion industry veteran
“I’m talking about buyers, sales teams, the press, the make up is a single pantone: white. […]
“In a meeting with buyers and the head of creative we were pre-proofing a Christmas book and we had a black model. One of my managers stopped on the black model and said, ‘I’m not sure about this model, I don’t know if we have this customer.’ I was the only person of color at the table and I had a decision to make about speaking up, it wasn’t hard. I asked, ‘Well, why don’t we have this customer?’ The look she shot me was ‘How dare you speak?’ Two months later, I was out of that division, she’d gone to HR and said I was insubordinate.”
The lack of diversity in fashion stems further than the runway, but it’s rarely discussed after fashion week as it’s behind closed doors. In this latest edition of Confessions, a black fashion consultant reveals why there’s a lack of diversity, their experience with job hunting and what a lack of di…
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