Runway and Designer favorite, Chanel Iman covers the newest issue of Page Six Magazine. The 18 year-old model talks boyfriends, tattoos, Tyra Banks and how it’s hard to book some jobs because of the way she looks.
Peep some snippets:
On her frustrations at the difficulties that models of color face in the industry:
“It’s not just black girls. It’s ethnic girls in general: Brazilian girls, Hispanic. You really don’t see a lot of Asians either. A lot of designers think that if every girl on the runway looks exactly alike, then people will come to the shows and buy the clothes because they won’t be focusing on the models….It’s not even just runway either… us ethnic girls should be getting a lot of the covers too! I would love to be on half of the campaigns these [white] girls are booking, all looking exactly alike. It’s not right. It’s not fair.”
