As London Fashion Week draws to a close we would like to remind the fashion conscious public that cat walk models should be representing the wider world – and not just the size 6 sixteen year old girls.
Models of Diversity, whose founder, Angel Sinclair, was herself a former model, has worked tirelessly to promote diversity in modelling. Her rallying call is; Where are the models of colour? The larger models? The shorter models? The The disabled models?
She calls on the fashion, beauty and marketing industries to recognise the beauty in people of all races, ages, shapes, sizes and abilities. She is realistic enough to know, however, that not just anyone can be a model; a successful model must have a special beauty, confidence, professionalism, ability to take direction, even artistic awareness. But she feels that no one with those talents should should be excluded from the industry on arbitrary grounds. And no one should feel shut out from the modern presentation of beauty.
Models of Diversity campaign at fashion events, hold street surveys, offer workshops and vigorously promote a more diverse range of models in the media and social networking. They know from their own surveys that the public is in favour of more diversity, so their ambition is to change how the fashion industry thinks and responds to the needs of all of the fashion buying public.
Visit their website at: www.modelsofdiversity.org