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The painter ROSS BLECKNER worked as a photographer for WWD magazine, snapping models on runways.
(Not that it has stopped her before: "Cosmetic companies don't like black models," she once said, about the lack of black models on runways. "The racist bitches. I have no idea why when it's obvious that black girls are just so genuinely much more beautiful than caucasians, who have clearly got the short straw").
You don't see smile lines on the faces of the models on runways in Paris, New York, London or Milan; you see beauty equated with youth.
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Eric Wilson reports on the gain in black models on the runways, an update on his earlier report on diversity on the runways.
What would finally move American designers to include more black models on their runways?
Had some of the models on the runways at Bryant Park this week lifted their arms, they might have been airborne, taking flight on their billowing poet's sleeves.
Buxom Turns Pale and Wan Bombshell overdose was the diagnosis offered for the near-complete absence of big-name sexy models on the runways.
Six months ago, Keli Goff, a blogger, political commentator and self-appointed fashion industry watchdog, chided designers for their near-exclusion of black models on the runways.
Well before the Oscars stirred a diversity debate, Seventh Avenue had been the target of stinging criticism for the sin of omission, routinely parading mostly white models on its runways.
The chances of a woman making Food & Wine Magazine's annual 10 "Best New Chefs" list are slimmer than the models on the runways at New York Fashion Week.
But she's all too aware of the contemporary phenomenon known as "black out" -- designers refusing to use black models on their runways.
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