Vogue Italia shoot in which she was forced to wear grey make-up because the make-up artist didn’t realise she was Black and regularly had to fight to be paid the same fee as her white counterparts), she has achieved a lot.
In the 1990s, she became the first Black woman to feature on the cover of the biggest luxury magazines, and still continues to make history today.
In 2019, she became the first Black woman to win the Icon award at the Fashion Awards, visibly breaking down as she thanked her mother for “raising me single-handedly, you were my mother and my father”.
She is hopeful that 2020 will serve as a turning point in dealing with racism, and yet still the issue of tokenism remains – for example, brands using a Black model in a.
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