Diversity looks good according to the fashion designers
March 8, 2010
News Worldwide — News reports from the World celebrity fashion news reports that at a wide range of fall 2010 shows, one could spot black, Latina and Asian models. There were enough of them coming down the runways that if one happened to blink, there would still be visual evidence that the fashion industry has modestly changed its ways. The runways did not look like a global melting pot; it was not a United Nations dressed in sample sizes. But designers have significantly broadened their definition of beauty, style and celebrity fashion esthetic sense.
Designers have come quite a distance since 2008, when celebrity fashion mag Vogue Italia dedicated its July issue to black models as a rebuke to an industry that seemed to see the world only in shades of white. There is now room for more than a single woman of color per show. Better to applaud such a newfound reality rather than lament how absurdly parochial and Johnny-come-lately such progress sounds here in 2010.
Diane von Furstenberg had a long parade of models of color on her runway. She has typically boasted a wide mix of women in her shows, but for fall 2010, there was an abundance of brown faces — some familiar, some not — strutting along her U-shaped walkway. And Francisco Costa, the designer at Calvin Klein, embraced diversity in several notable ways. Costa had been specifically called to task in the media in recent years for an especially austere runway on which the models were so emphatically cut from the same mold that the result was an army of monochromatically clothed clones.
Celebrity fashion news reports that all these developments suggest a New York fashion industry that is slowly maturing and coming to the realization that derring-do is not limited to teenagers and 20-somethings. There’s also a simple financial fact: In hard times, it makes no sense to thoughtlessly alienate the women with the greatest resources to buy expensive frocks. But fashion is a curious industry. It’s one that sells innovation but has a lemming complex. The designer who decides to turn his runway into a haven for size-12, 40-something models, would become an outcast, not a hero. His point-of-view dismissed as pure gimmick.
The best thing to happen on the New York runways was that designers weren’t using diversity to attract publicity, to advance a leitmotif or to be flamboyantly subversive. They simply decided that diversity looks good. Keep watching celebrity fashion news for more details.
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