Diversity in Fashion – London Met
The London Metropolitan University is one of London’s oldest educational institutes, which prides itself on its multi-ethnic and socially diverse community and holds panels such as Colour-In Fashion: How fashion should embrace diversity.
This allows students to come together with industry experts and to gain insight into just how challenging the fashion industry can be.
One notable panellist, a journalist named Carlene Thomas-Bailey, was very out-spoken regarding the lack of diversity the industry currently faces: “I think New York Fashion week is better than its London equivalent, but I still don’t think it’s as good as it should be […] You get wonderful moments, like Edward Enninful’s first edition of British Vogue, and I get very excited and then nothing happens. I’d love to work out how people of colour can be more than just a fad in fashion.”
This panel is just one of the many events the London Met uses to shed light on critical issues within the fashion industry. The annual catwalk showcase, named Project Red, is a chance, according to Aimee McWilliams, BA Fashion Course Leader, to “focus, they don’t need to worry about pattern or colour, they just need to think about form.”
This highlights the university’s mission in embracing diversity and encouraging a progressive future for the fashion industry, whilst paving the way for this exciting change.
*Thanks to The London Metropolitan University for images and resources.
> Sheridan Rudge
Diversity in Fashion – London Met
