Thesis statement:“Although NYFW is taking pride in being the most diverse fashion week yet, women of color are not being adequately represented in fashion shows in United States. Discriminatory treatment towards models unquestionably manifest the supposedly creative high-fashion industry as a myopic and narrow-minded world.”
Artist statement:
My research topic is about diversity in the modeling industry. I started with concluding datas shown on the Fall 2017 New York Fashion Week runway including most booked models, most and least diverse shows and the overall diversity rate. After exploring the history on this topic, I came up with my thesis statement. After learning about the facts, I wondered what the impact would be when it comes down to individual models. Therefore in this project, I am doing a “documentary” featuring models of color telling their very own story and point of view on this topic
Brain storm in class. I was going to interview models face to face. However, they all have a busy schedule so I decided that it’ll be easier to interview them throw email.
I looked for my primary sources on instagram since nowadays every model are “required” to have one. I focused on models of color, and other pages that is related. I get about a 5% respond rate.
My Creative Brief
Below are the content I emailed them
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