Wednesday, June 17, 2009

ARISE Africa Fashion Week pt 2...Is Blackness a trend?

Designer: Lanre DaSilva Ajayi

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Designer: Ituen Basi

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Designer: Nkwo

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Did you get that? Watch it again, and pay real close attention to what she says at 2:37 into the clip. I believe that it's absolutely wonderful that the fashion world is starting to accept ethnicity, but the fact that it is so blatantly open about its bigotry in this day and age is appalling.

"They really don't take black models, as they told me...."


Sure, I mean at the very least they are being honest, but at the same time its almost seems as if they're only being so honest because they really aren't sorry for their past offenses.

Sometimes I wonder if this embracing of black beauty is simply a trend and will soon fade into none existence (probably in about another 4 to 8 years...) Well at least for now black is beautiful, I just hope that it sticks.

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