Barbara Blanchard, a champion of diversity and inclusion in the fashion world

Barbara Blanchard is a business owner on a mission. Her belief in the importance not only of diversity but also inclusion infuses everything she does. In the 1990s she helped put on a groundbreaking fashion show with Lamine Kouyaté, founder of the label Xuly Bët, casting 100 Black models at a time when diversity simply wasn't on the industry's radar. Today, she offers diversity training to companies, while also working as a talent agent and running a fashion label devoted to women's football. We went to meet this exceptional woman.
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[@lucasgrey9794]

Diversity is NOT in the interests of the indigenous French population.

[@lucasgrey9794]

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[@lucasgrey9794]

You would NEVER see diversity lectures take place in Nigeria telling Nigerian companies to hire more white people.

[@karlosthejackel69]

She doesn’t mean more Chinese, she means all blacks