Comments on: Fashion News: Menswear Runways Back to Their Old Tricks?

By: sadaf

sadaf — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:04:49 +0000

its fine

By: michael; Edwards

michael; Edwards — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:52:00 +0000

I think the gucci line has too much white, maybe had sum more style and patterns.

By: Les

Les — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:13:38 +0000

I’m not surprised, as long as they are getting the black consumers dollar without having to cater to them, why would they? Plus, a lot of these lines already have plenty of famous blacks modeling and shouting their clothes out for free. They don’t need to do anymore catering to blacks.

Personally, as a consumer, I support brands that support me. If more minorities did that, these brands would be HURTING. Then we’d see more diversity.

By: puff

puff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:38:34 +0000

i’m honestly not surprised by stuff like this any more… apparently black male models are only cast a-plenty when they’re working as nude props for giselle. which is a shame, cos these men are beautiful (especially homeboys with the glasses in the d-square pic… lawd!!). like was said above, it’s important that we as consumers make our voices heard about what we want from the people whose revenue we provide.

By: Noname

Noname — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:34:33 +0000

Fashion doesn’t care about black people.

By: Ally

Ally — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:17:38 +0000

I am not surprised that most of these designers used their typical line up. Truth be told, they don’t care about not using minorities as models. Wasn’t it the Owner or CEO of Timberland that said that he didn’t want “us” wearing his shoes and we are their primary source for revenue. The same goes with Cristal Champagne saying that they didn’t like how the rappers were portraying their alcohol in the videos. These are people that no matter how we try to move forward in society they refuse to succumb to the fact that minorities exist, want to be treated the same and want the same respect as the majority. What DSquared did was phenomenal but will it be done again, I doubt it. We made a cry as a community that there was a need for black models and the only people who answered the call were the NY Times, Vogue, DSquared and a few others. All we can do from here is keep making our voice heard.