Why are black models boycotting Melbourne fashion week?

More than a dozen Black Australian models are boycotting Melbourne Fashion Week (MFW) to highlight the fashion industry’s mistreatment of people of colour. From being paid significantly less than white models, the N-word being used by photographers, and hairdressers suggesting a “buzzcut” because “Afros are too hard to style’.

Antoinette Lattouf is joined by model Nyaluak Leth to explain why 13 Black models have joined forces to call out an industry they claim is unsafe and unfair.

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