Mar 31 2008
Why Are Designers Racists?
I grew up in the Jim Crow South witnessing every flavor of discrimination under the sun either in person or through other so it did not surprise me to read the story EXPOSED: The fashion industry gripped by racism. The article talks about Jamaica-based supermodel Gaye McDonald and her views on the racism that exists in the world of fashion modeling.
Reading that designers are saying things like ‘no ethnics’, ‘please do not send me any black models as they do not suit my clothes’, and ‘too Afro’ just makes me shake my head and wonder why fashion designers are racists when the clothes don’t care what color skin the model is.
