vogueanon:

romeo-ruins:

vogueanon:

WWD or any other major fashion media outlets do not wish to treat runway racism this season as an issue so we haven’t had an actual official list of the demographics of catwalk models. This is pretty much an UNOFFICIAL runway statistics list I have compiled from style.com and TFS showlists. 4 major fashion capitals and their most famous shows were taken into account. Shows are listed alphabetically and appearances denote the total number of looks allotted to MOC (Model of Colour) .

The numbers will speak for themselves although casting directors and designers use the best voice blocking earplugs to block out any criticism -noise - against their white-washed line-ups. I apologize if I have made any mistake regarding the exact number of MOC who have walked in the shows but it is 1 more or less each time. Sometimes make-up and heavy wigs covering the faces made it way harder to identify models (style.com even didn’t list their names either).

I’ll start with Paris, the capital that holds the most significance out of all, and then Milan, London and New York respectively.

PARIS

Acne Studios: 3 Models of Colour out of 33 looks

A.F. Vandevorst: 3 Models of Colour out of 39 looks

Alexander McQueen: 3 Models of Colour out of 34 looks

Alexis Mabille: 2 Models of Colour out of 31 looks

Anthony Vaccarello: 5 Models of Colour (7 Appearances) out of 40 looks

Balenciaga: 3 Models of Colour out of 33 looks

Balmain: 11 Models of Colour out of 47 looks

Carven: 2 Models of Colour out of 37 looks

Céline: 3 Models of Colour out of 39 looks

Chalayan: 3 Models of Colour out of 48 looks

Chanel: 12 Models of Colour out of 86 looks

Chloé: 4 Models of Colour out of 40 looks

Christian Dior: 6 Models of Colour out of 50 looks

Christophe Lemaire: 5 Models of Colour (9 Appearances) out of 32 looks

Comme des Garçons: 0 Model of Colour out of 22 looks

Dries van Noten: 5 Models of Colour out of 57 looks

Elie Saab: 4 Models of Colour out of 50 looks

Giambattista Valli: 5 Models of Colour out of 44 looks

Givenchy: 4 Models of Colour out of 57 looks

Haider Ackermann: 1 Model of Colour out of 30 looks

Hermès: 9 Models of Colour for 33 looks

Hood by Air: 11 Models of Colour out of 42 looks

Isabel Marant: 3 Models of Colour (4 Appearances) out of 39 looks

Jacquemus: 0 Model of Colour out of 44 looks

Junya Watanabe: 0 Model of Colour out of 44 looks

Kenzo: 12 Models of Colour out of 41 looks

Lanvin: 5 Models of Colour out of 55 looks

Loewe: 2 Models of Colour out of 36 looks

Louis Vuitton: 6 Models of Colour out of 48 looks

Maison Martin Margiela: 2 Models of Colour out of 36 looks

Miu Miu: 5 Models of Colour for 40 looks

Mugler: 3 Models of Colour out of 35 looks

Rick Owens: 8 Models of Colour out of 45 looks

Rochas: 4 Models of Colour out of 39 looks

Saint Laurent: 2 Models of Colour out of 55 looks

Sonia Rykel: 7 Models of Colour out of 45 looks

Stella McCartney: 6 Models of Colour (7 Appearances) out of 41 looks

Valentino: 1 Model of Colour out of 79 looks

Viktor & Rolf: 4 Models of Colour out of 33 looks

Vivienne Westwood: 9 Models of Colour (?) (18 Appearances) out of 59 looks

Yohji Yamamoto: 6 Models of Colour out of 31 looks

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Regardless of any fucking statistics I feel like I need to express my opinion. I’m not a model and I live in Sydney Australia, though I appreciate every second of fashion week for the beauty of the clothing and new designs.

- maybe not as many people “of colour” want to be in the modelling industry. It’s not for everyone.

- the more we use “of colour” the more it highlights how we still can’t deal with racism in society.. Even women “of colour” categorise them self into this as well, a lot of us are guilty of it

-if we stop using the term “of colour” maybe people won’t be so god damn caught up in the talk and this whole god damn post would have never had to exist.

There are women and there are men in this world. Modelling is tough, like any other job, Regardless of where you’re from.
Casting is different for all different brands. You don’t know what goes on inside a designers vision so CHILL OUT AND TALK NORMALLY

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