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Model Calls for Stylists to ‘Learn How to Do Black Hair’ After They Avoided Her Backstage at Paris Fashion Week
Though runways are getting increasingly more diverse every season, the same progress seemingly isn’t being made backstage.
Model Londone Myers called attention to the different treatment she received at Paris Fashion Week in an Instagram post. In the time-lapse video, stylists buzz around models getting ready for the show while Myers sits in the hair and makeup chair, apparently ignored by the backstage glam squad.
“I don’t need special treatment from anyone. What I need is for hairstylists to learn how to do black hair,” she captioned the post. “I’m so tired of people avoiding doing my hair at shows. How dare you try to send me down the runway with a linty busted afro. We all know if you tried that on a white model you’d be #canceled. If one doesn’t stand we all fall. If it isn’t my fro it’ll probably be yours.”
Myers told Teen Vogue that she and the “three or four” other black models did not get the attention that others did.
“I was just so frustrated with how people would avoid even looking at me,” she said. “I usually do my hair before every show, but this time I just showed up without anything on hand like everyone else.”
She also explained that she did her best to ask for a stylist but was rejected several times.
“I simply asked around the room for who did black hair multiple times and was cast aside, until they sat me in this guy’s chair who tried to send me off looking unpolished, like the other [black] girls,” she said. “One of the other black models saw all of …
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