{"id":1631,"date":"2016-11-17T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T03:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2016-11-17T22:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T03:23:49","slug":"skinny-tall-and-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-fashion-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/11\/17\/22\/23\/skinny-tall-and-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-fashion-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinny, Tall, and White: The Lack of Diversity in the Fashion Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">\u00a0Each year according to the <i>Joint Economic Committee,<\/i> (composed by the United States congress) the fashion industry has a yearly revenue of $1.2 trillion dollars globally and a $250 billion dollar yearly revenue here in the United States. T<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">he Fashion industry is a thriving industry, one that has a great impact on our society and culture because society wears fashion and culture creates fashion. Our society is made up of people who have different body sizes, different heights and are of a different race. However the fashion industry is very one dimensional industry. This comes from the fact that the industry uses models who are mainly skinny, tall and white. While there isn&#8217;t a problem with someone having those characteristics there is a problem with the fashion industry misrepresenting all people in society and worse misrepresenting different cultures. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">With a lack of body diversity many have accused the fashion industry as being a gateway for women and eating disorders as well as body dysmorphia . The lack of racial diversity in the fashion industry has lead to the conversation of racism and cultural appropriation in the industry. As a member of society and an avid contributor to the fashion industry it is important to explore the idea about the fashion industry lacking body and racial diversity as well as how it is affecting our society and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Each year according to the Joint Economic Committee, (composed by the United States congress) the fashion industry has a yearly revenue of $1.2 trillion dollars globally and a $250 billion dollar yearly revenue here in the United States. The Fashion industry is a thriving industry, one that has a great impact on our society and <a href='https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/11\/17\/22\/23\/skinny-tall-and-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-fashion-industry\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}