THE COLOUR OF BEAUTY.....

MEET RENEE THOMPSON AN ASPIRING SUPER MODEL. AFTER TEN YEARS OF MODELING THE NOW 24 YEAR OLD, WANTS TO CLAIM THE TOP SPOT. SHE HAS BEEN FEATURED IN THE DOCUMENTARY THE COLOUR OF BEAUTY DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH ST. PHILIP.

THE DOCUMENTARY DISCUSSES THE STRUGGLE BLACK MODELS GO THROUGH TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL. HONESTLY ALOT THINGS I HEARD WEREN'T SHOCKING, HURTFUL, BUT NOT SHOCKING. 

READ ON THE CHECK OUT THE VIDEO AND SOME QUOTES THAT MADE ME GO HMMMM/ WTF!

QUOTES THAT MADE ME GO HMMMM/WTF!

"I have heard that people say blacks don’t move product, or blacks don’t buy our clothes, or, you know, black women are not our demographic"

"Nobody wants to invest their money in a black model to do Gucci, Prada, and Valentino, because they’re black, and black doesn’t sell. Point blank. Money’s green, and white people have the money, white people are gonna buy from white people."

"I think fashion is five steps behind the real America, behind real Canada, there’s been way more progress in personal and interpersonal relationships between the races and between the cultures than there has in fashion. Fashion’s stuck in 1955, and I don’t know what it’s gonna take to get them to move forward."

"The girls that are really just being featured in everything, they really have unique features for African-Americans. You know, the very skinny nose, the very elegant faces. They really look like white girls that were painted black. It, that’s beauty, you know, to the industry’s perspective, to agents’ perspective, when they see that, you know, when they see a girl that, that can look different, you know, by a skin pigment, and, and still have great features like that, it’s, it is sellable. You know, when you, when you come in with, you know, big eyes, big nose, big this, whatever, big lips, things that are common traits in African Americans, it doesn’t work."

"It’s like she, she’s, she’s womanly, she’s, so she has like, you know, a kind of woman figure, and at this moment, without being anorexic, but the girls they’re like a little bit more thin. Black models, they tend to be like a little wider the hips, and, and a little bit more like round, and so some time, you know, even though like the face is amazing, she has like a thick problem."

"One time one of my clients are like, “No, no, no, no, no, I need a black model, but she has to be a white girl dipped in chocolate.”

"The token black girl, Naomi Campbell, the token Asian girl, and real, really just the same one over and over and over and over again."

"There still seems to be this crazy kind of racism, I, I hate to call it that, but a, a, a kind of consciousness in the fashion world that, you know, sometimes you do see, you know, a black girl on the runways, it’s almost out of a tokenism."

I BELIEVE ALL WOMEN SHOULD BE REPRESENTED. THE FACT THAT THEY SINGLE SOME OUT BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, OR FOR ANY REASON IS SICKENING.

I AGREED WITH A FEW THINGS THAT WERE SAID. MOST OF MY FAVORITE BLACK MODELS DO INDEED HAVE WHITE FEATURES, NOT SAYING THAT'S A BAD THING BECAUSE WE ARE ALL BEAUTIFULLY DIFFERENT. BUT FOR THEM TO ONLY WANT WHITE LOOKING MODELS THAT HAVE BEEN DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE, I MEAN WOW WHERE DO THEY COME UP WITH THIS STUFF. REALLY?

ANOTHER THING THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WAS WHEN HE COMMENTED ON HER HIPS SAYING THEY WERE A LITTLE TOO WIDE. SHE IS A STICK! NOTHINGS WIDE ON HER, I SOMETIMES WONDER, IF THEY THINK THAT'S BIG I MUST BE OBESE IN THEIR EYES, WHICH IS SAD. (TAKES A BITE OF MY PIZZA)WITH THAT SAID I'M NOT AGAINST MODELS HER SIZE I HAVE FRIENDS THAT EAT LIKE FIVE GROWN MEN BUT ARE NATURALLY THIN. PUSHING THOSE MODELS TO BE EVEN THINNER IS CRAZY AND UNHEALTHY.

HOPEFULLY IN TIME THINGS WILL CHANGE AND ALL RACES OF WOMEN WILL BE REPRESENTED. I WISH RENEE ALL THE BEST SHE DESERVES TO BE AN IN DEMAND MODEL. I'LL STOP RAMBLING NOW.

WHAT DO YOU LADIES THINK?????