Naomi Campbell Says Lack Of Black Models Keeps Her Going
British supermodel Naomi Campbell isn’t thinking about giving up her career as a runway model any time soon, despite being 38 years of age.
According to Campbell, the lack of black models in the fashion industry is what keeps her on the catwalk, despite many of her peers of the late 80s — Cindy Crawford for example — long gone from the life.
“I’m very grateful for my career, but I worry for the girls after me for the opportunities they get — the way they get treated. And this is one of the reasons I still do what I do,” she told Reuters recently.
Campbell, who as a teen was the first black model to grace the covers of the French and British editions of Vogue magazine, said many fashion designers still favor fair-skinned models over their dark-skinned counterparts.
“I don’t do so many shows anymore, but I do count how many girls of color they use in the shows. It happens to be last year New York was the worst,” Campbell explained. “Now at Paris Haute Couture, there was only one black girl out of all the shows. It cannot be a trend.”
However, to combat this very problems, Italian Vogue featured mainly black models in its July edition. Campbell was estatic about that.
“For me, it is something that is history-making. Something that I’m going to keep forever,” she said about the magazine, according to Reuters.
Is this really her reason? Or is she simply an attention whore? Tell us what you think.
