The fashion industry has never exactly been a paragon of diversity, but when Naomi Campbell was a star of the catwalk and not the front page it may have seemed that racism in fashion was being overcome.
As I mentioned in my Beaver commentary about Miss LSE, there is racism implicit in the ideals of the fashion industry which fetishes 'neat' curves and facial features together with hair 'like that of a monkey'. However, the debate around the recent Black issue of Italian Vogue shows that fashion still has to deal with racism even on the level of skin colour.
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