The fashion industry often is criticized for its singular portrayal of women: long-limbed, scary skinny, perennially adolescent, and, say some, overwhelmingly "white."
The July issue of Italian Vogue hit European newsstands last week with all black models. Some are familiar faces - Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell - while others are more known to fashionistas, like Pat Cleveland. The photographer, Steven Meisel, speaking on the fashion industry as a whole, told The New York Times, "I thought, it's ridiculous, this discrimination."
Indeed it ...