A look into how the fashion industry has evolved since confronting its diversity issue:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last two years drastically altered our worlds, leaving most catatonically navigating a space they’d been bolstered into. The fashion industry, with its own many faults, vocalized its disdain for what was happening in the streets of minority central cities in late May of 2020, after the consistent and overwhelming amounts of police brutality happening all over the world.
Now, two years later as Sharp continues to navigate the industry as a biracial Black woman, which she calls an “easy diversity percentage” for brands, Sharp believes the real push needs to happen within the beginning ideation stages, not once they’ve selected and hired influencers for campaigns. “I think because there's so much focus on outwardly not being canceled or not being called out they're not really taking the time to shift inward,” fashion stylist and costume designer Zerina Akers tells. “Who is sitting in the boardroom? Who is in the meetings, who was on the Zooms that is approving all of this stuff? Are you empowering their voice to speak up when it's necessary? Do you have a diverse opinion in the room? That's how it really starts.
Charles and Peoples Wagner co-founded the Black in Fashion Council , in hopes of representing and securing the advancement of Black individuals in the fashion and beauty industry. Recently BIFC released theirhighlighting the current workplace structure within the companies BIFC works with. Topics include workplace nondiscrimination, where 43 percent of the participants currently have a “clear, race-based, hair non-discrimination policy in their Equal Employment Opportunity policy.
Also in partnership with Color of Change, the BIFC announced this week its latest endeavor, the BIFC #directory. The directory of over 300 industry professionals is “a resource for any brand in hopes of a commitment to addressing historical racism and systemic inequity in the fashion industry." The database will feature Black-identifying photographers, makeup artists, set designers, and more, with a geographic reach that expands across the world.
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