June Sarpong Says Fashion’s Gatekeepers Need to Start Thinking Differently About Diversity

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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June Sarpong shares her advice on how organisations can improve their diversity and inclusive representation, and effectively champion allyship.

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0:00.0	Threadup, the largest online consignment in thrift store, is helping brands tap into
0:04.4	fashion's fastest growing industry.
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0:11.8	slash B-O-F.
0:13.0	When you realize that this is a must-have for your business is survival, you will not hire tokenistically
0:22.6	because you will realize that this matters.
0:24.9	One of the things that has struck me most
0:26.7	in my time writing on this subject
0:28.6	is just the impact of unconscious bias
0:30.9	and just how pervasive an issue it is.
0:33.6	Who's making the decision?
0:34.9	Who is commissioning?
0:36.2	Who is directing?
0:37.2	Who's producing? Those are the is commissioning? Who is directing? Who's producing?
0:38.0	Those are the people who decide who gets hired.
0:43.6	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the
0:48.2	Bof podcast.
0:49.4	This week, we go back to a BOF live episode in conversation with June Sarpong, the head of creative diversity
0:55.6	at the BBC here in the UK. June actually has a long history of talking about these topics with
1:01.3	B-O-F. She came to Voices 2016 just before her book Diversify was published. And as you'll learn
1:08.3	in this conversation with Robin Mallory Pratt,
1:11.2	she has many observations, lessons and recommendations for the fashion industry
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