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THERE'S an open secret in the beauty industry and it's a guilty one: the industry is racist. And it seems a storm is set to break about this, exactly as it did over the size-zero campaign. You might imagine that, among fashionistas, beauty would be welcome in any from, and the more diverse, the better. But you would be wrong. these days, ethnic beauty is pretty much invisible.
Last month, I took a quick snapshot of what you currently see in fashion magazines. I bought 25kg of glossies in random armfuls from a top newsagent; mainly British and American, but also several from Europe, as well as Japanese and Indian Vogue. All those kilograms added up to literally thousands of pages, and the result was conclusive.
Compared to the vast numbers of white girls in them, there were hardly any ethnic models, and few of those were black.
In all the editorial photoshoots and advertisements combined, there were only 163 ethnic women, and of thse only 14 were black.
Admittedly, this sample is far from professional market research, but it is striking enough to be worth considering. The fashion world, on this evidence, has been screening ont ethnic beauty.
The issue is reaching an anxious tipping point this month with the emergence of a new black supermodel, Jourdan Dunn, the 17-year-old British girl you see pictured on thse pages. She was discoverd last year while shopping in Primark, and photographers, stylists and editors believe she could go all the way.
She is remarkable, and particularly so because she is black.Sarah Doukas, head of the Storm modelling agency, to which Jourdan is signed, (and who fomously discovered Kate Moss), says: “I'm very excited for her. I feel, if she does have great success, she will have a big effect on the way people look at different kinds of beauty.”
Such is the heat around Dunn and the ethnic issue right now that, in an attempt to atave off accusations of inequality, both Italian and American Vogue have been fighting over her for their covers. Italian Vogue's entire July issue has been shot with black models (the last time it featured one on its cover was 2002); American Vogue has also shot Dunn for its July edition. Incidentally, the last time British Vogue had a black women (Naomi Campbell) on the cover was also in 2002. Doukas, who this year celebrates 21 years of Storm, says that when she first atarted out, there was plenty of diversity---not so now. “It's ridiculous that we have so little diversity in our idea of beauty,” she says.
