Introduction
The fashion industry has been strongly associated with many significant breakthroughs throughout its colorful history. It has encountered and conquered many obstacles, emerging victorious every single time. Over the past decade, a new form of threat to the fashion industry presented itself in the form of diversity and disability. Attention to these concepts have grown exponentially as many industries are pressured into making changes to their employment policies to provide more job opportunities for this group of people.
The actions and demands of activists for the diversity and disability movement is understandable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides that …show more content…
Thus far, the inclusion of models of diversity has been restricted to independent fashion shows or campaigns. If these models operated at the top of the industry, it would help to change the perspective of the fashion world and provide a solid foundation to grow on.
Conclusion
Many people believe that the fashion industry should be the voice of the general population. It should have a valid representation towards the diversification of the society as a whole. This gave rise to the models of diversity campaign.
Models of diversity have garnered much attention over the past couple of years. They have progressed leaps and bounds in terms of being accepted into the fashion industry. However, the challenges to break into the top end fashion world is a huge task as there is still a strong resistance towards the inclusion of these models.
In order to ensure that the interest in models of diversity do not fade out, high end fashion institutions should play their part and lend a hand out to them. By representing large fashion corporations, these models will garner more mainstream attention and further establish their foundations in the industry. It will also help to persuade and dissolve the remaining resistance towards this group of