{"id":47,"date":"2019-02-24T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2019-03-04T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:15:31","slug":"ethnicity-on-the-runway-new-york-fashion-week-designers-talk-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/ethnicity-on-the-runway-new-york-fashion-week-designers-talk-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnicity on the Runway : New York Fashion Week Designers Talk Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pseje_wVwZc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>By&nbsp;Hannah&nbsp; D\u2019avanzo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My media outlet,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdaccessmedia.com\/\">HD Access Media<\/a>, has allowed me to attend international events and meet people of all backgrounds. One thing I noticed at designer shows is that diversity was often limited.<\/p>\n<p>Attending Milan Fashion Week in previous years, for example, I recall not seeing a variety of ethnicities represented among designers, models or even the audience attending the shows.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I recently had the opportunity to attend New York Winter Fashion Week, I decided to investigate as part of our Interactive Journalism class at Southern Adventist University.<\/p>\n<p>Though most people would like to claim that diversity is important to them, how far will diversity go? Will women of ethnic backgrounds be included in this exclusive circle?<\/p>\n<p>After several days of watching shows and talking to designers, my previous perspective changed.<\/p>\n<p>Many designers said diversity was important to them. They not only expressed the belief but acted upon it by including models of different ethnicities to model their clothes.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with designers from all different parts of the world who came to showcase their designs and beautifully incorporated their culture into their clothes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Present were Middle Eastern designers, Asian designers and European designers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those I interviewed included Hakan Akkaya, Christian Cowan, Kirsten Ley, and Marisa P. Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Along with diverse designers, we saw models of all backgrounds proudly showcasing the&nbsp;newest trends and embracing their ethnicities.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize New York Winter Fashion Week:&nbsp; It was a time where we could see, feel, and hear diversity, both on and off the runway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Hannah&nbsp; D\u2019avanzo My media outlet,&nbsp;HD Access Media, has allowed me to attend international events and meet people of all backgrounds. One thing I noticed at designer shows is that diversity was often limited. Attending Milan Fashion Week in previous years, for example, I recall not seeing a variety of ethnicities represented among designers, models or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/ethnicity-on-the-runway-new-york-fashion-week-designers-talk-diversity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ethnicity on the Runway : New York Fashion Week Designers Talk Diversity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}