Fashioning the Self - The Fashion and Race Database™

Jan 2021 27

The Problem with All-Black Castings

By Fashioning the Self | Essays & Opinion, Holt Renfrew

Diversity should be made intrinsic to a brand’s ethos and an ongoing conversation, not just an aesthetic, after which ads and campaigns go back to lily-white casting once calls for diversity have been quelled.

Interrogating the Presence of Blackamoors in High Fashion and Decorative Arts

By Fashioning the Self | Objects That Matter, Holt Renfrew

“Have I ever showed you my little blackamoor heads from Cartier with their enameled turbans?”, the legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland wrote in her memoir D.V....

Diana Vreeland’s Peculiar Relationship to Blackness

By Fashioning the Self | Historical, Style Icons/Tastemakers, Holt Renfrew

Vreeland is most remembered as an enduring tastemaker and groundbreaking editor-in-chief at Vogue, but it should not be forgotten that she is also perpetrator of not-so-subtle racism that prevailed among women of her race and class.