Leomie Anderson's Open Letter

'Fashion probably is a bit racist'

                                                                          - Leomie Anderson

She recently wrote an open letter about her feelings towards the race issue in the fashion industry and how she deals with such adversity. Read her letter here.

There's this old Nigerian saying that if you cut a Nigerian woman she bleeds pure glamour. You have no idea how many 'label-whores' I  know, my auntie insists on wearing Prada head to toe. in fact, I'm quite sure that my aunties are the sole reason why the Prada Store in Manchester is reaching it's targets. 

 Taking the hair industry as an example, black women are willing to shell out serious money for some hair extensions, rely on high end make up such as Dior, Laura Mercier or Mac to satisfy their make up needs. These industries are literally worth billions. As far as I'm concerned they are loosing major money by advertising their products to only one type of woman. So justifying the scarcity of black models in magazines, ad campaigns, catalogues and on the runway by saying that there aren't many 'black buyers' in my opinion couldn't be further away form the truth.

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