Diversity

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Prada Mounts Diversity Council as Brands Face Blackface Backlash

13 February 2019 • By Bloomberg

13 February 2019 • By Bloomberg

African-American artists Theaster Gates and Ava DuVernay will chair a group created to 'elevate voices of colour' and advise on diversity issues.

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Prada Mounts Diversity Council as Brands Face Blackface Backlash

African-American artists Theaster Gates and Ava DuVernay will chair a group created to 'elevate voices of colour' and advise on diversity issues.

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Gucci Pulls Sweater Slammed for Resembling Blackface Imagery

7 February 2019 • By Bloomberg

7 February 2019 • By Bloomberg

The Italian luxury label apologised for selling the $890 black turtleneck, whose extra-high collar features a pair of exaggerated red lips around an opening for the wearer’s mouth.

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Gucci Pulls Sweater Slammed for Resembling Blackface Imagery

The Italian luxury label apologised for selling the $890 black turtleneck, whose extra-high collar features a pair of exaggerated red lips around an opening for the wearer’s mouth.

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The BoF Podcast: Bethann Hardison, Kerby Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and Patrick Robinson: 'We’ve Had Diversity, but Then It Disappeared'

5 February 2019 • By BoF Team

5 February 2019 • By BoF Team

The creatives spoke about the barriers that black designers face and how a new generation is finding success outside the fashion system.

The BoF Podcast: Bethann Hardison, Kerby Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and Patrick Robinson: 'We’ve Had Diversity, but Then It Disappeared'

The creatives spoke about the barriers that black designers face and how a new generation is finding success outside the fashion system.

Stephanie Phair on Nurturing Fashion’s Future Female Leaders

31 January 2019 • By BoF Team

Stephanie Phair on Nurturing Fashion’s Future Female Leaders

Farfetch’s chief strategy officer and BFC chair Stephanie Phair shares her insight on how fashion can better support gender diversity within the workplace.

Op-Ed | The Revolution Will Not Be Serifised: Why Every Luxury Brand’s Logo Looks the Same

25 January 2019 • By John Whelan

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Op-Ed | The Revolution Will Not Be Serifised: Why Every Luxury Brand’s Logo Looks the Same

Fashion’s branding clean slate is as much about erasing the past as it is about securing the future, argues John Whelan.

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The Business of Beauty

The Fenty Effect Comes to Skincare

16 January 2019 • By Jessica Schiffer

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The Business of Beauty

The Fenty Effect Comes to Skincare

Skincare brands are introducing new products to protect and heal skin regardless of tone, chasing the same underserved group of racially diverse consumers that turned Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty into an overnight sensation.

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CFDA Releases Diversity Report

7 January 2019 • By Cathaleen Chen

7 January 2019 • By Cathaleen Chen

The organisation is planning a year of programming that tackles inclusion and diversity in the industry and has hired advocate Bethann Hardison to help.

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CFDA Releases Diversity Report

The organisation is planning a year of programming that tackles inclusion and diversity in the industry and has hired advocate Bethann Hardison to help.

What Can the Fashion Industry Do To Be More Inclusive?

20 December 2018 • By Chantal Fernandez

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What Can the Fashion Industry Do To Be More Inclusive?

Diversity is not a trend, and there is more work to be done to acknowledge and address the barriers facing non-white designers, models and creatives. The first step? Don’t lump everyone’s challenges together.

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Prada Will Stop Selling $550 Monkey Figure Decried as Racist

14 December 2018 • By Bloomberg

This marks the latest instance of a fashion house using imagery that’s at best tone-deaf, at worst, racist and exploitative.

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Prada Will Stop Selling $550 Monkey Figure Decried as Racist

This marks the latest instance of a fashion house using imagery that’s at best tone-deaf, at worst, racist and exploitative.

American Fashion on the Cusp of of Change: Bethann Hardison, Kerby Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and Patrick Robinson

29 November 2018 • By Chantal Fernandez

American Fashion on the Cusp of of Change: Bethann Hardison, Kerby Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and Patrick Robinson

At BoF’s VOICES, the creatives spoke about the barriers that black designers face and how a new generation is finding success outside the fashion system.