How 'The Hills' Inspired the Current Guard of Black and Brown Fashion Editors
, the memory is so distinct. She'd get home from school, toss her backpack on a chair, and go directly to the television in her family living room. This was her time. This was her zen. MTV'sThe Los Angeles-based reality show ran for just four years , but its influence is still lingering. Produced by Adam DiVello—who went on to createit was bringing in an average of 2.7 million viewers by its final season, according to data shared by MTV.
Growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Bonilla didn't have a direct line to the industry, and she knew gatekeeping was rampant. "But at the same time,made me think, 'Well, I can do jeans like that. I can layer my tank top and have the hem hanging down from the bottom. I can look like those girls," she says, referring to the show's core cast of Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, Audrina Partridge, and Whitney Port.
Of course, the whiteness of the series was glaringly obvious to any Black or Brown person in the audience. Often, the only people of color featured were the runway models walking the fashion shows. Nowadays, the lack of diversity would be met with pushback and derision, butwas a part of a different time. The dream of being part of the perfectly imperfect fashion industry was so appealing, and so hard to find depicted anywhere else, that some fans were willing to overlook the inequities.
Fashion has always been about fantasy, and its foray into reality TV was no different. Most real-life magazine interns weren't contributing to cover shoots, rubbing elbows with celebrities, or having weekly check-ins with the editor-in-chief. Both Conrad and Partridge have defended the show being, for the most part, an accurate portrayal of their lives at the time.
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