Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail 53 Ghana Celebrity Watch The British-born star, who has been outspoken about the racism she has encountered in the industry, made the comments in a video to open the virus-hit Paris fashion week, which has been forced online. More Articles You Would Love Togolese Designer Djes’Wendé Presents The D-R ‘Deeply Rooted’ Collection; See It Here VIDEO: Read The Truth Behind Severely Humiliated Gh Slay Queen Caught Living As A Villager! Did The Man Go To Far Wearing a T-shirt with the legend, “Phenomenally Black”, Campbell said the “time has come to build a more equitable industry with a good form of checks and balances”. The lessons of the Black Lives Matter movement must also be applied to fashion, she said. “This is a conversation that is starting now and will last as long as is needed,” she added.”It is up to us and you to start enforcing inclusion of the multitude of identities that compose our countries,” Campbell added in a message addressed to the industry’s movers and shakers. “It is more now than ever compulsory to include them in a permanent way and not a transient one.” Campbell, 50, has never made of secret of the prejudice she faced in her early days on the catwalk, where she was the sole black supermodel in the 1990s. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Naomi Campbell (@naomi) ‘Blonde, blue-eye girls sell’ “I may be considered one of the top models in the world, but in no way do I make the same money as any of them,” she said at the time. She was not signed by a cosmetics company until 1999. In a famously frank interview around the same time with The Guardian newspaper said that “this business is about selling, and blonde and blue-eyed girls are what sells”. “The fight for equality and diversity has been a long fight in society and in the fashion industry,” Campbell said in the video, made for the French fashion and haute couture federation, which runs Paris fashion week. “We still have a long way to go, and the time has come to collectively call the fashion world to task regarding inequality,” she added. In her call to arms Monday, Campbell quoted the late South African leader Nelson Mandela — whom she met several times and greatly admired. “He said that vision without action is merely daydreaming; but vision with action can change the world,” she added. Although Paris runway shows are hugely more visibly diverse than they were a decade ago, black designers are still few and far between. Black designers breaking through That has not stopped the American Virgil Abloh from becoming one of the hottest designers of the moment, heading up Louis Vuitton menswear as well as his own starry Off-White label. And Olivier Rousteing became the first black designer to run a major Paris house when he took over at Balmain in 2011, aged just 25. He has since put diversity at the heart of the brand. African designers are also now breaking through, with the Cameroonian creator Imane Ayissi — a former model and dancer — showing in the elite Paris couture line-up Tuesday. And Campbell walked the Paris women’s catwalk in February to support the young Nigerian designer Kenneth Ize, who was making his debut. Campbell was his “fairy godmother”, said the 29-year-old. “Naomi made this happen. She has been part of the journey since day one,” he said. This article was published via AFP Relaxnews UPCOMING TOP EVENTS! VIEW ALL EVENTS Click Here To Submit stories Email: [email protected] or HashTag #FashionGHANA Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail Nana Tamakloe Founder of FashionGHANA.com and Accra Fashion Week. I'm grateful you visited, I hope you share, subscribe and share your comments or opinions below. More For You #BeautyOfTheWeek: Proud Jamaican Influencer Anthena, Scoops Our BOTW of the Week With Her... Fashion Week Organizers from Across Africa Assemble in Ethiopia to Forge A Cohesive... Leading Ghanaian Menswear Brand ‘Kustom Looks’ Takes Over ‘All Africa Games 2023’ With... #OOTD: Berla Mundi Serves Haute Couture As She Shakes The Net With A... VIDEO: Arisar (Barbados) @ Accra Fashion Week 2023 VIDEO: Wig Wearing Black Mom Hospitalized With Horrific Skin Reaction & Illness After... A Detailed Insight Into Ethiopia’s TechStitched Fashion Program & The Participating Fashion Weeks... Cornrows With Cowry Shells: A Red Carpet Show Stopper & A Modern Twist... PICS: To Much Glamour; Check Out Bonang Matheba, Swanky & More At The... AFI Reschedules Cape Town Fashion Week For 2024 Leave a Comment Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.