Vivienne Westwood Slams Racist Fashion Magazines

Dame Vivienne Westwood has slammed fashion magazines for being racist and demands that editors should be forced to use black models in their pages. Th...... (more)

by Tracy McNeill

It is interesting that I am the first comment, and that I have been attempting to enter the fashion industry, and believe one of my stumbling blocks is the fact that I am a Black women. We continue to focus on unrealistic images of beauty and fashion which do not include the vast majority of women. Even more interesting is that the article does not mention the publication, so that we might call for a boycott. Until there are more faces of color on the corporate side of fashion, no matter how beautiful the model, she will always face the challenge of not being selected because of race.

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