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Nina Garcia Says The Fashion Industry Is 'Already Addressing' Its 'Huge' Race Problem

From designers to models to business executives, no one could argue that the fashion industry isn't disproportionately comprised of white individuals. Approximately 80 percent of the models walking in the past four New York Fashion Weeks were white, less than 3 percent of fashion week designers are African American, and, as Stylite points out, all but two major fashion magazines featured a white woman on the cover of their September issue.  "Project Runway" judge Nina Garcia recognizes fashion's lack of diversity, but she sees hope in the progress that's been made already.

 

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