“Every opportunity you can, you show up. You speak up. You pull the chair out for each other. There's no such thing as a guaranteed free lunch right now for people of color.'
Whether you grow up in Southern California as Phillip Lim did, Nepal like Prabal Gurung, or Connecticut à laeditor in chief Michelle Lee, feeling "other" is a uniquely shared experience. In a new episode of thePodcast, the two designers chat with Lee about finding a community within the beauty and fashion industries, and lifting each other up so it boosts representation as a whole. "The beauty of it is, what I realized when I came to America, was I can choose my own family.
community and people of color, creates space for everyone and makes a better world for future generations. If you think the fashion world can be cliquey, well, it's worse when there are so few minorities in the game. "You're pitted against each other from a space of scarcity, from a space where it's almost like you are put into an arena and everyone's telling you, 'You're so lucky. You're so lucky.
. "Magazines and everything that's been celebrated as, let's say, what's hot, what's sexy, what's desirable and it didn't look like me. It didn't look like us," says Gurung. "I had to define my own worth. I realized nobody is going to give me my worth. So I was like, 'You know what? I am hot. I am sexy. The world just needs to catch up to me.
, a rom-com all three believe was a step in the right direction. And just this year at the Oscars, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho won big for his movie,, nabbing four awards including Best Picture. It was the first time a non-English speaking movie won the top award in the history of the Oscars. But with every step forward, there’s a step back.
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