3 Black Fashion Designers Reflect on the Years Since the 2020 Racial Reckoning

The fashion industry has a long way to go on racial justice and equality. But there are things brands can do to effect change that extend beyond declarations of solidarity and hollow apologies.

Today, less than 4% of the 500 members of the invite-only Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), fashion’s most influential trade organization, are black. Fewer than 10% of designers at New York Fashion Week in recent years have been black. And there have been vanishingly few black designers at major fashion labels: It was big news when Vi... See more