Saturday, June 21, 2008
Vogue Italia Breaks the Highest Glass Ceiling for Black Models in July Edition
From left: Liya Kebede, Sessilee Lopez, Jourdan Dunn and Naomi Campbell.
Photo: Steven Meisel
The Vogue Italia in protest against the racism in the modeling industry in the Western world has devoted 100 pages of the July edition on Black super models.
Steven Meisel photographed Iman Abdulmajid, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks Alek Wek, Liya Kebede, Pat Cleveland, Jourdan Dunn, Sessilee Lopez and other celebrated Black models for this special issue.
Naomi Campbell in the July edition of Vogue Italia
You can read Cathy Horyn's “Conspicuous by Their Presence” on the July issue of Italian edition of Vogue and view the slide show.
Liya Kebede
You can read more on The Runway Blog of The New York Times and on Prometheus6.
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