Bethann Hardison, K. Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and P. Robinson on Fashion in America | BoF VOICES
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The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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At BoF’s VOICES, the creatives spoke about the barriers that black designers face and how a new generation is finding success outside the fashion system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and this week we're going back to Voices 2018, where we have conversations on how fashion is shaping the wider world. |
| 0:14.7 | Bethann Hardison is sometimes called Fashion's Fairy Godmother. |
| 0:18.4 | Bethann helped guide the careers of the industry's most prominent |
| 0:21.5 | models of color. In 1988, she founded a watchdog, charity, and networking group of models called |
| 0:27.3 | the Black Girls Coalition. And in 2013, she founded balanced diversity, promoting racial consciousness |
| 0:34.5 | in the fashion industry, which helped change conventional notions of beauty. |
| 0:38.3 | In September, as we waited for the Mark Jacobs show to start, Bethann motioned to me from across the runway that she wanted to have a chat. |
| 0:45.3 | And some of you may remember that there was plenty of time to chat that day, as the show started an hour and a half late. |
| 0:51.3 | Bethan told me about a new project she was conjuring up with the CFDA to support young fashion designers. |
| 0:57.5 | And for her talk at Voices, she invited a few of her closest designer friends to join us |
| 1:03.0 | and talk about their personal journeys in the American fashion industry. |
| 1:07.0 | So Bethan also spoke with Kirby John Raymond, who was named winner of the 2018 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund, |
| 1:15.2 | Laquan Smith, who has dressed Beyonce, Brianna, and Lady Gaga, as well as Patrick Robinson, |
| 1:21.4 | former executive vice president of Design for the Gap, who were all in conversation with our |
| 1:26.5 | esteemed editor at large, Tim Blanks. |
| 1:29.1 | So here's American Fashion on the Cusp of Change at Voices 2018. |
| 1:35.9 | Our subject is American Fashion on the Cusp of Change, |
| 1:40.9 | are equally representative. |
| 1:44.3 | All of these people here are representative of this cusp. |
| 1:48.2 | But I thought I'd ask Bethann right off the top |
| 1:51.3 | to actually see what she thinks the cusp of change is, |
| 1:56.8 | what she thinks this change that we are about to, |
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