New York and São Paulo Fashion Weeks have started to include more
dark-skinned women in the runways New York Fashion weeks 2020 saw 46.8 percent
models of colour on runways compared to 20.9 percent in 2015. This is a
testament that racial diversity on the runways has been slowly increasing over
the past years.
Similarly, in 2020 São Paulo ensure 50 percent of their models are darker
skin toned in fashion week, after the organising body was slammed for not
including black models in the runways when more than 54 percent of the
country’s population are blacks.
Historically, São Paulo Fashion Week has diversity problem and only after
intense pressure from anti-racism activists in 2009, the organising body made
it compulsory to have 10 percent of black models in every shows.
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Unfortunately, Fashion weeks from Milan, Paris, London and other parts of
the world still have a long way to go toward diversity as it is relatively low.
They need to have more fashion shows focusing on women of darker complexion and
different shades skin tones representation so people will stop portraying
darker complexions as inferior.
If we don’t change the idea of “whiteness is equals to beauty”, the society
we live in will continue to have the perception that darker complexion women
are not beautiful.
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