{"id":425,"date":"2015-11-26T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:15:58","slug":"what-happened-to-diversity-in-fashion-since-the-battle-of-versailles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/what-happened-to-diversity-in-fashion-since-the-battle-of-versailles\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to diversity in fashion since “The Battle of Versailles” ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For more infos & details :<\/b><\/h2>\n

Diversity Report : How the Fall 2015 Runways Really Stack Up on <\/span>The Fashion Spot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Beauty-Industry Problem No One Talks About on <\/span>Refinery29<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Model Nykhor Paul Slams Fashion Industry for Being Racist : \u201cI\u2019m the black dot\u201d on <\/span>Cosmopolitan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Robin Givhan On How The Battle Of Versailles Irrevocably Changed Fashion on <\/span>The Cut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Balance Diversity<\/span><\/a> by the Diversity Coalition, initiated by former model Bethann Hardison<\/span><\/p>\n

How The Fashion Industry Is Failing Black Models featuring Nykhor Paul, Bobbi Brown, Tyra Banks & Bethann Hardison | <\/span>The Huffington Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Artwork<\/h2>\n

M.Y – B(s)ttF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Battle of Versailles, coined by former WWD publisher John Fairchild, served as the beginning of American fashion as we know it today and became the catalyst for diverse runways that lasted nearly a decade. \u201c[Designers] wanted entertainment and black models were associated with being able to really express themselves on the runway.\u201d However, by the 1980s, \u201conce entertainment was devalued, black models became less in demand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syncretics","tag-black-swag-empowerment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}