I can tell each of these models apart and I’d be very unlikely to confuse Sessilee with say, Chanel or Jourdan with Arlensis. Different features, face-shapes, bone structure, skin tone, bodies and so forth.

That said, physically, they all fall within a certain range and don’t deviate too much from each other as opposed to what might happen if you put lined up Stacey McKenzie, Veronica Webb, Iman, Naomi and Alek next to each other.

And when I see a cover like the ID cover (PYT) which I assume is consciously riffing on Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistable” iconography – the end result is a sense of these women being homegenously styled.

Again, I realise that in this specific instance it is deliberate, but I can understand why it might cause someone who doesn’t follow their careers to note that they look similar or that it’s hard to tell them apart…

And the fact of the matter is that the Robert Palmer ‘clone shoot’ isn’t possible if there aren’t enough physical similarities between the models in the first place. So when I see a shoot like that I congratulate these models for being high profile and having successful careers, but I also start to think about what is missing from these pictures. I certainly don’t expect four black models to represent the entire spectrum of ‘black’ beauty anyway, but shoots like the ID cover make me realise that no black model who is very dark or light, (and with features that fall outside a ‘normative’ range) is getting show-cased like this.

It’s good that these models are there and are doing well, but the fashion industry really needs to get over the ‘one type of black look at a time’ meme.

Is it really that hard for people to do a google search to get the correct information about someone’s place of birth and or ethnicity.

Sessilee Lopez (born January 4, 1987) is an American model
-Lopez is half Dominican and half Portuguese.

Chanel Iman Robinson (born November 30, 1989), better known as Chanel Iman, is an American fashion model.

-Iman was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, her mother is of Korean and African-American descent and her father is African-American

Arlenis Sosa (born 1989) is an Dominican model
-She was born in Montecristi, Dominican Republic, she moved to New York when she finished high school.

Jourdan Dunn (born 3 August 1990 in London, England[2]) is a British fashion model.

Look how easy that was. ahhhh the internet isn’t it wonderful.

I don’t know where your getting your information from but you couldn’t be more wrong about all of the ladies.
First of all, Chanel is Black (aka MGM) NOT “biracial”, her mother is.
Second of all, *most* Dominicans are Black and mixed just like AAs. They are just mixed differently from AA.
Sesilee is not (to my knowledge) Ethiopian (where did u hear that at?) she is of Dominican and Portuguese decent.
And Jourdan is a Black-Brit more than likely of Caribbean decent.

ALL of these girls represent the diverse Black populations found in the West *perfectly*

The culture is not an open door for anyone to pilfer to their hearts extent for self-interest. Sesilee who is Ethiopian and Jourdan who is African American are the only indisputably “black” models from this group.

We shouldn’t have ppl who don’t get it take up the numbers in the “black” quota (and there is a quota!). End rant.