Naomi Campbell talks racism and the great untapped fashion potential of Africa
Naomi Campbell talks racism and the great untapped fashion potential of Africa
Naomi Campbell still sees racism in fashion, despite the industry’s growing efforts to embrace diversity. In an exclusive interview from the Condé Nast Luxury Conference in Cape Town, the supermodel tells Vogue that only when Africa – its models and its designers – are properly represented on the runway will equality really be achieved.
South Africa is so close to London-born Naomi Campbell’s heart that she considers it her second home. “When you think of South Africa you think of Nelson Mandela and that’s the way it will always be,” she says of her late friend (whom she affectionately calls “Grandad”) and the first democratically elected president of the country. It was with Mandela she would often stay when visiting South Africa, and to this day it’s to the Mandela family that she makes a first call when in Johannesburg.