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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.

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Jan 2021 27

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....

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Jan 2021 27

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.

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