Beverly Johnson: 'The Fashion Industry Pirates Blackness for Profit While Excluding Black People'

📆 2020/06/17 13:17:00
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Following Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s woefully late and inadequate acknowledgement that Condé Nast has remained largely inaccessible to “Black editors, writers, photographers, designers, and other creators,” model Beverly Johnson wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post decrying the fashion industry’s longstanding tradition of using Black culture for profit while failing to elevate Black designers, models, photographers, hairstylists, and other tenets of the industry.

. 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

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