Deddeh
Howard is a Liberian-born model based in LA, and she's hoping to raise
awareness about the lack of diversity in the modelling industry with her
new photo-project called Black Mirror. In it she recreates some of the
world's biggest fashion campaigns by taking the places of major
modelling stars such as Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Kate Moss and Gisele
Bundchen.
"I
would walk into various fashion model agencies and I would immediately
be compared to that one or two black model that they had on the roster,"
she writes on her website. "Even though I was told by those agencies
that I have an amazing look and wish they could represent me, they
already have a black model. Besides having an abundance of white models.
It seemed as if one or two black models on the roster are enough to
represent us all.
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