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 Campbell, who was visiting Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos,
to appear on the runway at Arise Fashion Week, said there was a
need for better representation of the continent.
"There should be a Vogue Africa," she told Reuters in an
interview. "We just had Vogue Arabia - it is the next
progression. It has to be," she said, referring to the edition
of the magazine aimed at a readership in the Middle East that
launched last year.
"Africa has never had the opportunity to be out there and their
fabrics and their materials and their designs be accepted on the
global platform ... it shouldn't be that way," said the
British-born Campbell.
Condé Nast International, which publishes Vogue, could not
immediately be reached for comment.
The global fashion industry has attracted criticism in the past
few years because most models for major designers and fashion
houses are white.
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"People have come to realize it is not about the color of your skin
to define if you can do the job or not," said the model, adding she
had seen signs that the fashion industry was becoming more diverse
such as the appointment of Edward Enninful as British Vogue's
editor-in-chief in April last year.
The Ghanaian-born Enninful is the first black editor in the
publication's 100-year history and the first man to take up the
role.
Last week, LVMH's Louis Vuitton brand, the biggest revenue driver at
the French luxury goods group, said it had hired Ghanaian-American
Virgil Abloh to design its menswear collections.
(Reporting by Alexis Akwagyiram; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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