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The Moment Men’s Fashion | The New Black

Italy is not a country that is known for its tolerance or its embrace of multi-culturalism, and yet, all of a sudden the runways in Milan are crowded with black models. (I say black and not African-American because most of them were in fact recruited from France and England.) The news of an entire "black issue" of Italian Vogue photographed by Steven Meisel is still fresh in the American press. Both Guy Trebay and our own New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn have gone far to bring to our attention the lack of ethnic diversity on the fashion runways, in advertising campaigns and in editorial pages of magazines.

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