Iman: Use Black Models Or We’ll Boycott

Iman says that it's time to protest against fashion brands that don't use black models, by any means possible.

"It feels to me like the times need a real hard line drawn like in the Sixties, by saying if you don't use black models, then we boycott," Iman said. "If you engage the social media, trust me, it will hurt them in their pockets. If you take it out there, they will feel the uproar."

Iman

The supermodel, businesswoman and philanthropist believes that designers have become more racially prejudice since she started her career in the Eighties. The New York Times reports that this year black models accounted for only 6 per cent of catwalk looks at New York Fashion Week, falling from 8.2 per cent in 2012.

"There is something terribly wrong," she said. "We have a President and a First Lady who are black. You would think things have changed, and then you realise that they have not. In fact, things have gone backwards."