ESSENCE Fashion House Reveals Major Retailers ‘Embarrassed’ By Lack Of Black Designers

Essence Magazine:

Loading the player… By Keyaira Boone ·September 17, 2021 Updated

Brandice Daniel founded Harlem’s Fashion Row when “less than about 1 to 2 percent of designers that are in major department stores,” were “designers of color.” 

According to her, that statistic is still true today after 14 years of fighting for equality in fashion. “That hasn’t changed since I started. That same statistic has remained,” she said in a conversation with fragrance master Chris Collins, celebrity

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