WARDROBE: The Milan collections: A really big deal

The Prada runway shows (like most of the others in Milan) have always been notoriously white. Miuccia Prada is also one of the fashion world's definitive directional designers, an industry leader. When she makes a statement, other designers follow. So sadly, when she began showing her clothes on a series of young, wide-eyed, blank-faced Eastern European models, it began a trend in fashion that made it hard for girls who didn't fit that mold to get work. So the fact that she cast model Jourdan Dunn in her fall 2008 show is a huge deal. The last black woman to walk a Prada show was Naomi Campbell. And that happened in the 90s, quite a long time ago. Let's hope more designers follow.