“What made it feel like we were really heard was when Miuccia Prada started hiring Black models on the runway and putting them in her ads. That was a major cultural shift.”

Since then, we’ve started to see a shift with more Black and POC models on the runway – and the emergence of social media has allowed for more diversity to flourish, from race to body types.

“What social media has given to Black models is a platform, and every model is grateful for that – that’s all she wants, to get the opportunity to get a yea or nay from the designer.

“There are models who were discovered on social media, and that takes some power away from the casting agents. People are looking outside of the box, and that leads to more diversity. And that brought in a lot of other kinds of diversity – body positivity, different heights. The standards were removed. The change was visible.”

Iman gets real about diversity in fashion – and why the 2010s was a challenging time for Black models