Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail 55 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 Hot Shots: Heart Warming Mother & Daughter Picture Eleanor Goodey Currently Breaking The Net What Black Sherif & Other African Artists Need To Know About Hip Hop Before Jumping Rick Ross’s Music Project 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 PRIORITY EVENTS! VIEW ALL EVENTS AFRICAS BIGGEST FASHION WEEK IS HERE!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 PICS: “A Bald Woman Knows Her Kingdom” Gorgeous Top African Model Ayen Monica... #OOTD: Rutie B Hits Us With A Perfectly Stylish ‘Break-Out-The-Norm’ Top & Down... Nigerian Designer Uduak & Asiko Artist Recreate Yoruba Mythology & Gods in Stunning... Trashy Rap Star ‘Megan The Stallion’ Is Being Sued By Her Camera For... #OOTD: Nigeria’s Prudential Atelier Shakes Up The Internet With This Astonishing Wedding Guest... VIDEOS: King Promise & Sarkodie Show Men How To Drip In Kente &... FCCPC Shuts Down Chinese Supermarket In Nigeria That Banned Nigerians From Entering VIDEO: Watch Exclusive Designs You Missed At The Just Ended SA Fashion Week... #OOTD: Shams Berry Merges Elegance & Sultriness in Magbrien’s Striking Bustier Ensemble VIDEO: Watch The Moment Two Young Chinese Boys Were Over Excited To See... 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.