News | CFDA: Today marks the beginning of Black History Month. It is an extremely important time of the year, and the tragic and senseless acts of racial injustice in 2020 – including every life lost at the hands of racism in the United States and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color – crystallized this.
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I feel that this initiative could go one of two ways. It would be a shame if recording and reporting the struggles that black and brown people in the fashion industry was just that. Reporting on the injustices that are faced by minorities simply to bring the subject to light, while appreciated, doesn’t do much for the people who are being affected by those injustices. It’s important to make it very clear to white-dominated industries the racial injustices present with facts and statistics. However, it is one thing to say that you’re using the research to know what much be changed and fix and a completely different thing to actually make that change happen. I hope that the CFDA will do what they say they’re going to do and that that will inspire several other companies in the industry to do the same. However, after the past year, which revealed how little black and brown lives matter to many people in our country, it’s hard to believe that forward improvement such as this will happen easily if at all.
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I found this article very interesting. I am pleased to see that the Council of Fashion Designers of America has committed to goals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as the fight against racial injustice prevails across the country. The fashion industry falters at many levels in providing equal opportunities to marginalized communities whether is be unfair practices in the workplace or inequitable standards of getting started in the industry. After examining the report, I found it interesting how the survey was conducted. It seemed like the white population in the industry was less conscious of the injustices compared to the POC groups. Although this points out the flaws of the perception of problems in the industry, I appreciate the transparency of this leader in the industry. I hope that other large organizations will follow their example and conduct research into measurable progress for diversity, equity and inclusion in the fashion industry, at all levels.
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