11:50 am - 02/19/2013
The Fall-Winter 2013 shows have just finished up in New York. This season saw 151 shows and live presentations during fashion week's eight days — making it the biggest and busiest NYFW we've ever covered. But it wasn't very racially diverse.
This season, 151 New York designers' shows were covered by Style.com. Those shows presented 4479 individual women's wear "looks" to buyers and press, representing 4479 opportunities for a model to walk the runway or pose in a presentation. 3706 of those looks, or 82.7%, were this season shown on white models. Asian models nabbed 409, or 9.1% of all the runway looks. Black models were hired for 270, or 6%. Non-white Latina models had 90 looks, or 2%. Models of other races wore 7, or 0.2% of all looks.
Fourteen companies — Araks, Assembly, Belstaff, Calvin Klein, Elizabeth & James, Gregory Parkinson, Holmes & Yang, J Brand, Jenni Kayne, Juicy Couture, Louise Goldin, Lyn Devon, Threeasfour, and Whit — had no models of color at all. The brands Araks, Calvin Klein, Elizabeth & James, and Louise Goldin didn't hire any non-white models last season, either. That means this season, around 9% of all NYFW shows had all-white casts. That's up slightly from last season, when only 6% of shows had only white models. For comparison, in 2007, one-third of NYFW shows were all-white.
Designers that had more racial diversity included 3.1 Phillip Lim, Anna Sui, Badgley Mischka, Costello Tagliapietra, Diane von Furstenberg, J. Crew, Jason Wu, Jeremy Scott, Jonathan Simkhai, Mara Hoffman, Naeem Khan, Nicole Miller, Rebecca Taylor, Suno, Tracy Reese, Yeohlee, and Zac Posen.
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Fashion Week’s Models Are Getting Whiter
The Fall-Winter 2013 shows have just finished up in New York. This season saw 151 shows and live presentations during fashion week's eight days — making it the biggest and busiest NYFW we've ever covered. But it wasn't very racially diverse.
This season, 151 New York designers' shows were covered by Style.com. Those shows presented 4479 individual women's wear "looks" to buyers and press, representing 4479 opportunities for a model to walk the runway or pose in a presentation. 3706 of those looks, or 82.7%, were this season shown on white models. Asian models nabbed 409, or 9.1% of all the runway looks. Black models were hired for 270, or 6%. Non-white Latina models had 90 looks, or 2%. Models of other races wore 7, or 0.2% of all looks.
Fourteen companies — Araks, Assembly, Belstaff, Calvin Klein, Elizabeth & James, Gregory Parkinson, Holmes & Yang, J Brand, Jenni Kayne, Juicy Couture, Louise Goldin, Lyn Devon, Threeasfour, and Whit — had no models of color at all. The brands Araks, Calvin Klein, Elizabeth & James, and Louise Goldin didn't hire any non-white models last season, either. That means this season, around 9% of all NYFW shows had all-white casts. That's up slightly from last season, when only 6% of shows had only white models. For comparison, in 2007, one-third of NYFW shows were all-white.
Designers that had more racial diversity included 3.1 Phillip Lim, Anna Sui, Badgley Mischka, Costello Tagliapietra, Diane von Furstenberg, J. Crew, Jason Wu, Jeremy Scott, Jonathan Simkhai, Mara Hoffman, Naeem Khan, Nicole Miller, Rebecca Taylor, Suno, Tracy Reese, Yeohlee, and Zac Posen.
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she's beyond fab
my fave is xiao wen ju!
it's why whenever there is a black african model the fashion industry decides to use it's an east african model. i always rme because it's overdone now.
why can't black women just be black women
Though there are a few casting directors / designers who really push for diverse casts. Some people are trying, they may not get the press attention, but they are working hard trying to change things. Sadly those people are few and far between, but you can see it reflected on the runways they're in charge of.
Did they mean to say "hispanic?"
and even "hispanic" isn't really a racial term.
idgi
My understanding is that "hispanic" just means someone comes from a background of spanish language/culture and can be any race.
maybe they really mean american aboriginal/mestizo or something.
btw mexico is in north america so...
Edited at 2013-02-19 06:16 pm (UTC)
wiki says:
Spanish speakers and persons belonging to a household where Spanish was spoken
Persons with Spanish heritage by birth location
Persons who self-identify with Latin America
it is not a race, it's really a case by case basis & if you identify with more than one option, at the end of the day imo it's really what you prefer, even if you're not 100% correct according to your family tree.
my maiden family is caucasian & hispanic and my mom and aunt are twins. my mom feels more connected to hispanic influences so she will say she is hispanic on forms, despite it being pre-face with non-caucasian, well her sister says she is caucasian out of simplicity. neither are in denial and both will explain that their maiden last name is basque but we have other euro ancestors. it's complex and could be easier but i don't think a one word label is too limiting as long as you only simplify it on charts or when a country is trying to condense billions into 10 different bubbles.
Edited at 2013-02-19 07:32 pm (UTC)
he said if i knew anything about the real world i would know that any race can be racist.
i cant
Just hope you planted a dragon seed in his noodle.
at least that's how i understand it
I say that as a Pakistani who knows a lot of people racist towards black people.