Beverly Johnson, Vogue's first Black cover model, is demanding change from the fashion industry: 'Silence on race was then—and still is—the cost of admission to the fashion industry's top echelons.'
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, who she describes as "most powerful person in the world of fashion," needs to "hold her peers in fashion accountable for making structural changes." In addition, she presents the adoption of a new policy, which she explains as follows: "I propose the 'Beverly Johnson Rule' for Condé Nast, similar to the Rooney Rule in the NFL that mandates that a diverse set of candidates must be interviewed for any open coaching and front office position. The 'Beverly Johnson Rule' would require at least two black professionals to be meaningfully interviewed for influential positions.
who "claim to be all about 'diversity and inclusivity'," but do not champion Black voices "behind closed doors." Smalls implored, "This industry that I love has profited from us but has never considered us equal. This. Stops. Now. It's time for the fashion industry to stand up and show their solidarity."
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