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This 3 page paper discusses the status of African-American fashion designers in the industry today, and how their designs appeal to urban youth. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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because of her patronage. This paper considers the way in which race shapes the fashion industry in New York City. Discussion The first thing to note about the industry is
that African-Americans tend to be vastly under-represented, both as designers and as models. Fashion is "disproportionately white, male-dominated" and has been since the rise of the great fashion houses of
Paris (Who put the black in black style?). One of the African-American designers who has broken through the color barrier is Malcolm Harris, who "calls his year-old label Mal Sirrah
(his surname backwards), [and] works in a studio on Convent Avenue in Harlem. He identifies himself as a black designer" (Who put the black in black style?). Harris says that
he thinks about his race every day, because ""There was a period when I felt no one really understood what African-American designers went through. It was almost as if our
voices were not being heard and our visions were not being seen" (Who put the black in black style?). This is not surprising, nor is it confined to black fashion
designers. African-Americans in general are routinely ignored and their contributions are either not accepted or denigrated as being inferior. Harris is one of a "handful" of real designers as opposed
to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs and Russell Simmons are two of these: "not really designers but entrepreneurs building
clothing brands from their outsize personas, capitalizing on a style born of black street culture" (Who put the black in black style?). The irony is that more people are familiar
with Combs and Simmons than recognize Harriss name; they are more famous than "even the most prominent black designers on Seventh Avenue from recent decades like Tracy Reese, Stephen Burrows,
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