Models at Koché Spring 2022; Image: Imaxtree
Fashion month continues to be impacted by the pandemic. Fashion Month Spring 2022 saw more shows and more castings than the Fall 2021 season. But many designers still opted for lookbooks and smaller presentations.
Although it’s certainly not an excuse, smaller shows led to fewer castings and less diversity in some cases. Despite these challenges, Spring 2022 still managed to make history when it came to racial diversity. It even had some decent gains in size, age and gender representation.
We’ve tallied the totals across New York, London, Milan and Paris. So keep reading to see how Fashion Month Spring 2022 stacked up.
RACE
Spring 2022 is now the most racially diverse season on record. It boasted 4,471 model appearances across 198 shows. And 48 percent of those appearances were by models of color. That’s an almost five point increase in diversity from last season when a little over 43 percent of castings went to nonwhite models.
The rise…