Fashion Prejudice Returns: Female 40 Somethings and Can’t Find Anything to Wear. Black Models Out of Work
“So many women say they don’t want to dress like their mothers. But I don’t want to dress like my daughter. And why is NO ONE putting middle-aged women in their campaigns? Average age of a Burberry customer? Fifty-three. Age of the face in their ads? 19-year-old Emma Watson.” []
Do read the article in the Times. It details one woman’s struggle to bring fashionable and fine clothing to women in forgotten age ranges. []
Fashion “prejudice” has returned in other areas as well extending from from the runway to the retail outlets. TV did a spot 6/18 about the struggle of black models. If you thought that struggle was finished, think gain. Famous black models discussed the current situation and outlined the special program, The Color of Beauty.
‘The Color of Beauty’ is a documentary that looks at what many consider institutionalized racism in the fashion industry. Black models struggle to find work. The first African-American to grace the cover of Vogue magazine supermodel Beverly Johnson and model/actor Renauld White join Tony Harris to discuss the documentary. The definition of beauty and fashion is what we’re talking about in our ‘What Matters’ segment.
They focused on British
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