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Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani Next In Fashion is a new fashion competition series that aired on Netflix in 2020, hosted by Queer Eye’s Tan France and fashion designer Alexa Chung. In the show, teams of designers in the fashion industry compete for $250,000 and the opportunity to debut a collection with Net-a-Porter. EachContinue reading “Fashion in TV”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani Beyond the models and designers, there are many more jobs in the fashion industry that should be examined when thinking about racial inclusivity in fashion. While the numbers of nonwhite people in the fashion world still need to be improved, we are far from where we need to beContinue reading “Jobs in Fashion”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani Instagram has become a platform for people to have their voices heard and share their stories. Particularly for the fashion world, Instagram users have utilized the platform to speak out about racial diversity issues and celebrate people who are often not represented as much in mainstream media. In 2018,Continue reading “Instagram”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani While we are slowly seeing more models of color in advertisements, campaigns, and on the runways, numbers are not everything. Representation is extremely important, but there are still a lot of issues pertaining to how models of color are treated that are not seen by the public eye. TheseContinue reading “Behind the Scenes of Fashion Shoots and Shows”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani The CFDA, otherwise known as the Council of Fashion Designers of America, is a group of hundreds of accomplished designers from around the country, including Tom Ford, Vera Wang, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and many others. Their goal is to facilitate and cultivate the economicContinue reading “CFDA Fashion Awards”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani Dictionary.com defines advertising as “the act or practice of calling public attention to one’s product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.” (Dictionary.com). This definition seems to be quite outdated, however, because it does not include advertising onContinue reading “Advertising”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani In the 1980s and 1990s, Calvin Klein was a brand that had no problems casting models of color. For the years that followed, they started to become criticized for lacking racial inclusivity particularly in their fashion shows, acquiring a reputation for having some of the whitest New York FashionContinue reading “Calvin Klein”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani Aerie is the subsidiary brand of parent company American Eagle Outfitters. It mainly focuses on different types of lingerie while American Eagle Outfitters doesn’t direct its focus to any one article of clothing. The two are closely linked and each of their websites advertises the other in that bothContinue reading “Aerie”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Sanjna Sadarangani The spark of transgender and non-binary models has created more eye-catching looks to  pose on the runway. By overcoming such high discrimination from recent years, transgender models appearing in high-end fashion shows such as New York Fashion Week has now skyrocketed. As shows are now encouraged to incorporate inclusivityContinue reading “New York Fashion Week”

Emily Bajek, Katie Sun, Michelle Manjunath, Sanjna Sadarangani Advertising and marketing are immensely important components of any corporation, especially one as large and globally recognized as Victoria’s Secret. Anticipating an avalanche of press coverage of anything and everything the company puts out, Victoria’s Secret has created their own website meant specifically for the press calledContinue reading “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show”