British-Jamaican supermodel Naomi Campbell sat down with Arise TV during Arise Fashion Week to discuss her career and her goals for the future. Naomi revealed that she had always envisioned there being an African Vogue and now she is the contributing editor of British Vogue, we may be a step closer to making that dream a reality.
The supermodel, who opened for Lanre Da Silva Ajayi, Tiffany Amber, Kluk CGDT and Ozwald Boateng over the course of Arise Fashion Week has been thoroughly enjoying her time in Lagos.
Sitting down to an interview, Naomi brought up the issue of the fashion industry’s lack of diversity and inclusivity, and wants change to be implemented to make up for it. She said that she felt Africa has not been recognised for its contributions to global fashion and called on Vogue to launch an African issue to shed light on it.
“There should be a Vogue Africa,” she said “We just had Vogue Arabia, it is the next progression. It has to be.” She also added that the continent has “never had the opportunity to be out there and their fabrics and their materials and their designs be accepted on the global platform… it shouldn’t be that way.”
It has been noted that very few black designers head fashion houses or run magazines however the tides are changing very slowly with the appointment of Edward Enninful as the Editor of British Vogue and Virgil Abloh who became the first black designer to become the artistic director of menswear of Louis Vuitton and the first black man to hold such a high position in a fashion house ever.
We’ve certainly come a long way, more work needs to be done, especially considering that Vogue owns editions in over 20 countries.
“People have come to realize it is not about the color of your skin to define if you can do the job or not,” Campbell added.
Source: Pulse.ng
