In September of 2007, Jezebel.com reported that of all the 101 shows that took place during New York fashion week, one third employed zero models of color. Since then, they've tried to track diversity on the runway every season. Here are their findings:
This fashion week, there were 128 New York shows and presentations that were covered by Style.com. Non-white Latina models were used 95 times in all of fashion week, or around 2.3% of the time, and Asian models were used 296 times, or 7.1% of the time. Black models were used 353 times, or 8.4% of the time. Models of other races, like the Moroccan Hind Sahli and the Canadian model Tara Gill, who has Native American heritage, were used 16 times, or 0.4% of the time.
