New York’s Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) is paying homage to African-American designers who have made, and are still making, significant contributions to the fashion industry. This is long overdue. Although Black culture has made an immense contribution to fashion trends in the Western world, Black designers have been greatly underrepresented in the fashion industry,...
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8 Designers Bringing Change for Good to NYFW
When Tim Gunn released his scathing takedown of the fashion industry’s lack of size diversity the Washington Post last week, surely many fashion fans held the same assumptions he did: this year’s New York Fashion Week (NYFW) designers would largely stick to the old norms of Euro-centric size-0 models, and the fashion industry’s narrow focus would continue as...