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Thursday, July 10, 2008

TOCCARA FOR ITALIAN VOGUE







Leading black figures among models, designers and agents claim that the business has grown increasingly discriminatory, with levels of exposure for black women among the lowest since the 1960s. Several big names have formed a protest group in New York to highlight the problem.

Italian Vogue's editor, Franca Sozzani, said her decision was influenced by the New York group, as well as by Barack Obama's success in the US presidential primaries.


Among the black models on his roster was the full-figured Toccara Jones. Meisel argued that weight was also an issue in the fashion world.


Italian Vogue's all-black issue is unlikely to be emulated by its US sister magazine, however. As a gesture, American Vogue will this month run an article about the lack of black models.


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