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Supermodel Naomi Campbell has hit out at the lack of black faces on magazine covers and major fashion events, she says the fashion industry is more racist than ever.

Campbell told reporters:

“Women of colour are not a trend. That’s the bottom line. It’s a pity that people don’t always appreciate black beauty. In some instances, black models are being sidelined by major modelling agencies. Fashion needs to go back to the way it used to be when wonderful designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace and Azzedine Alaia just had a great line-up of beautiful women - white, black, Chinese, Hispanic.”

37 year old Ms Campbell also said that if her her supermodel pals hadn’t taken a stand against racism her career may never have taken off.

“Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington would go to big designers and say, ‘If you don’t pick Naomi to be in your show, then I don’t want to be in it’, The only reason I got the cover of French Vogue was because Yves Saint Laurent called up and told them he’d pull his ads if they didn’t.”

Carole White, the head of Premier model agency and who represented Campbell for a number of years, said:

“A black girl has to be perfect to get work. The bookers are told, ‘Don’t send any ethnic girls’. I showed a picture of a new black girl to an agent in Milan, and he actually recoiled. He said, ‘We don’t have black girls in Milan. It’s impossible.’”

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