Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
MY OPINION:
WOW, I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WORSE, THIS OR THAT PSYCHOLOGY TODAY ARTICLE. This journalist clearly just got her degree and had CLEARLY never spent time with any Black people in the African Diaspora and CLEARLY, if you call yourself a “fashionista” you haven’t studied fashion throughout the years. Are you serious? For the record, most fashion concepts come from Black folks, particularly today (with the vast influence of Hip Hop culture), but very much so in the 60s/70s and the African Aesthetic has always been a part of fashion (and for the record, we broke barriers as models back in the day too). I think the very fact that this person works for Elle FRANCE says she knows nothing of the value of Blacks in fashion as Europeans have always valued our style and beauty. The nerve! I’m fuming. AGAIN! And people wonder why race is always at the forefront of our minds. Are you kidding? Do they really have to ask?
IN ADDITION (As I continued to respond to comments):
But clearly there is a generation of writers and journalists and young Black people who know nothing of our history in America and overseas. If this “fashionista journalista” were worth her salt, she would know that Black people have always been valued for our beauty, sometimes moreso in Europe. She would know, if the studied, that we have always lead the way in fashion. What she showed to the world is just how ignorant and uneducated in her craft she is. And in France of all places, a place where Black beauty has always been valued, a place who will put Black models on the runway before they will in America. It’s pathetic and it’s sad that Elle France will probably keep her employed. They need to send her to a fashion refresher course so she knows what she’s talking about before she writes her next article.
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Kellea, editor
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