Meet the must-know models of New York Fashion Week.
has kept in recent years on model diversity and inclusion on the runway. New York Fashion Week has always led its European counterparts on the diversity front, and though Paris Fashion Week has just begun, not only does it seem poised to do so once again, but it has broken its own records.
This season, 45.8 percent of the models booked this past NYFW across 77 prominent shows were models of color. That's up from 44.8 percent last season and more notably, up from just 20.9 percent in Spring 2015. Once again, every single show counted had at least one model of color, which wasn't always the case, especially among some major shows, in the very recent past.
The growing sense of inclusion is also now leading to a growing wave of more diverse booked and busy models. Indeed, nine out of the 10 most booked models at NYFW were of color. That includes Nigerian-born model Mayowa Nicholas, who booked 13 shows and tied for the most bookings with French-born Cyrielle Lalande. Here, the top-10 models of the season, according to the Fashion Spot's numbers.
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