. At the time, fashion editors celebrated her for having “broken all color barriers,” but Johnson found that she was still paid less than white models and could not request BSilence on race was then — and still is — the cost of admission to the fashion industry’s top echelons,” she wrote.
Indeed, Johnson says, the fashion industry is still closed off to Black people, and Wintour’s acknowledgment of that fact is too little, too late. “Year after year, companies inflict harm against black culture while actively gouging it for inspiration and taking all of the profit,” Johnson writes, pointing to recent