White evening gown by Cameroon designer Martial Tapolo. Courtesy of Amada Paris
Adama Paris, fashion designer, founder and CEO of Black Fashion Week
Senegalese Fashion designer Adama Paris, whose real name is Adama Ndiaye, anchored the 1st Fashion show featuring all black models in Paris this weekend.While she argues that dark-skinned designers and models are underrepresented in the fashion industry -- accounting for less than ten percent of industry professionals, recent reports have revealed -- Adama Paris says the label “black fashion” refers to a movement rather than a colour of skin. “This is not a fashion show by black people, for black people,” she says. “It’s part of a movement, like “black music” and “black art”, and it is inclusive of all the people that are drawn to it.”
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