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Tokyo Fashion Week: Segregation 2.0

Tokyo Fashion Week: Segregation 2.0

Picture this: You’re at London Fashion Week, attending the showing of one of England’s premiere designers. It’s one of the best media covered shows of the week and as the show goes on you notice someting: all the models are Asian – not a single white girl on the catwalk. No big deal. The...
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Let’s Play a Game: Find the Asian Needle in the White Model Haystack

Let’s Play a Game: Find the Asian Needle in the White Model Haystack

It’s Japan Fashion Week, although one can scarcely tell except by the names of the designers. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but I still find it disturbing that even in Japan white models dominate the catwalk. While we can kvetch about the lack of black or otherwise “colored’ models in NYC, London, Milan,...
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