Maghag: Where Are All The Black Models? Let's Start By Asking Anna Wintour

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NYPL Talk: Blacks In Fashion Part Two
Published 10/16/2007 by Claire at The Fashion Bomb /// All Urban Fashion...All the Time
... Though the discussion started off reiterating a lot of the same issues, it eventually seemed to go a step further by addressing the large role magazine editors play in filling editorial pages with diversity, and how that affects the runway. If you remember the article from jezebel.com, you'd recall that a whopping 7 out of the 9 major fashion magazines totally lacked black models in their editorial pages for the month of October. Sad. ...

Oops: The Only Black Model In Italian 'Vogue'? Actually A Maid
Published 10/22/2007 by choire at Gawker
... While American Vogue came up with exactly zero black women in fashion editorial in their October issue, at least Italian Vogue did better in September—they had one! Just one. Except turns out she wasn't a model, as the New York Times assumed. ...

Black is the New White for 'Men's Vogue'
Published 11/16/2007 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... the magazine had featured a black celebrity there. And Jezebel recently pointed out that Vogue featured not a single African-American model in its October issue's fashion pages. (Of course, neither did Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour or Cosmopolitan.) ...