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Friday, February 09, 2007

WARDROBE: New York Fashion Week























































































Not to harp on the same topic, but now that we've reached the last day of fashion week, I can officially say that it was the whitest season I've ever seen since I've been covering the collections. Yesterday's Calvin Klein show featured 42 models, all blonde, and not one ethnic face. And overall, only two black girls (Chanel Iman, pictured bottom, in Zac Posen and Ajuma Nasanyana, second from the top, in Myself by Kai Kuhne) and two Asian girls (Han pictured in Vera Wang, second to bottom, and this unidentified model in Phillip Lim, pictured top) seem to be getting any real work on the runway. While the weight debate remains the big topic of discussion in the global fashion community, the dearth of models of color seems to be the bigger problem. Granted, the fashion industry has always received criticism for not welcoming diversity. But what will it take to make the decision-makers listen? And for the record, despite the CFDA setting all of these anti-eating disorder regulations, the models were as thin as ever.

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