ALREADY one of the most in-demand models on the global fashion circuit, Storm girl Jourdan Dunn is about to make history - as part of a groundbreaking issue of Vogue Italia, which will feature only non-white models. An industry source has confirmed to VOGUE.COM that the whisperers are accurate and that Steven Meisel has indeed shot an entire issue featuring black models, in a bid to encourage other magazines to diversify.
Naomi Campbell has always been outspoken about racism in fashion and 17-year-old Dunn, who was famously scouted in the Hammersmith branch of Primark in London, recently added her voice to the debate.
"London's not a white city so why should all our castings be white? I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around and there's just me and maybe one other coloured face," she told the Evening Standard. "They just don't get picked. I hope it's because the designer just didn't think they were good enough as a model but I don't know." (April 25 2008, AM)
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I thought this article was very interesting. Ethnic woman are very beautiful woman and I never understood why we weren't in vogue other than Naomi Campbell. Are they scared? Will this give hope to young afro-american girls who want to be a fashion model other than catalogue or glamour? Change is coming and I am not scared! Yay for Naomi and Jourdon! :)
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