Tyra Banks holds court with a team of models. From left, Veronica Webb, Chanel Iman, Beverly Johnson and Noemie Lenoir – during a taping of her talk show Tuesday in New York. Scheduled to air Sept. 11, the episode celebrates an issue of Vogue Italia, which features only black models._
According to Fashion insiders, evidence of commerciality, especially in anxious times, is more likely to shift industry thinking than any amount of political correctness. For years, the excuse proffered by advertising agencies for not signing black models to lucrative contracts, and by magazine editors who failed to feature women of color on their covers, was a supposedly factual, 'they don't sell'. “Certainly, part of the grand rebuttal has been organized through the internet, influencing an industry that is far too used to listening to its own circle of insider voices.” UK Guardian said.
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This a wake up call for an the industry and it future relies on reaching global markets that do not resemble the freakish army of half-starved six-foot white girls who have come to represent the Western ideal. Perhaps, this just a part of Obama wave as in American politic. But it might change fashion forever.
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