African fashion models taking over the runway 0

While numbers are still low, the percentage of non-white models has actually increased from 2015.In 2015, 84.7% of of all the models featured in spring 2016’s fashion adverts were white compared to 78.2% this year.

Of these models we are starting to notice an increasing number of high fashion models from Africa – many from Angola and South Sudan in particular.

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