What have we learned from the model boycott of Melbourne Fashion Week?
The Briefing26 Okt 2023

What have we learned from the model boycott of Melbourne Fashion Week?

Melbourne Fashion Week is coming to close, after a week marked with controversy following a dozen Black Australian models boycotting the event to highlight the fashion industry’s mistreatment of people of colour.

Making headlines across the country and overseas, the public boycott sparked further action across the week, with additional models choosing to snub the event.

In a statement to the Briefing, a MFW spokesperson said organisers "acknowledged and fully support" the concerns expressed by Black models choosing to boycott, and the safety of black and brown models is "paramount".

A week after The Briefing’s exclusive investigation into the boycott, Antoinette Lattouf is joined by Jo-Anne Hui-miller, the former editor of Inside Retail magazine and diversity advocate to ask what lessons the fashion industry can learn from this moment.

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