April 7, 2008

Euro-phile: Jourdan Dunn, Britain's hottest supermodel

Jourdan Dunn, supermodel du jour in the UK, bristled during an interview with London's The Observer Magazine when they reminded her where she was first discovered...Primark. Primark is a budget fashion retailer (think Hot Topic, Target or Old Navy), which allegedly pays its sweatshop workers in India around 25 cents an hour. Meaning: worse fashion sins have been committed, but a fake beard and fedora might come in handy when shopping there. "I wasn't shopping," she sulks. "I was mucking about in the sunglasses section." Clearly, there is an important distinction between "mucking around" in Primark, and actually parting with cash. (Try telling that to Paris next time she's photographed buying stillettos in Payless.)
Dunn was discovered by a scout from the Storm model agency on that fateful day in Primark. Since then she's been featured in U.S. Vogue many a time, fronted Gap ad campaigns and walked for 75 designers during the Spring/Summer '08 fashion shows. This year, she became the first black model since 1997 to walk the catwalk for Prada. She made headlines in February with her comments about racial inequality on the catwalk at London Fashion Week, pointing out "London's not a white city."

April 7, 2008 in FASHION | Permalink

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Jordan is beautiful and I am happy for her but I for one am so tired of hearing the first black this and the first black that. Being bi-racial and easily fitted as a black woman, I have decided that this world will never see true change until we truly become color blind. Rock on, Jordan! To me you are a universally beautiful woman! May the world as a whole truly become universal where color lines are forever erased and one is known for the contents of their character and not the color of their skin...isn't that what MLK was trying to aim for all along? And we still don't get it.

Posted by Seraphica | Apr 8 2008 11:35PM