‘Numéro’ Magazine Puts White Girl In ‘African Queen’ BlackfaceEditorial...

Just days after Mercedes Benz Fashion Week ended, Jezebel calculated that a whopping 82 percent of models who walked in the Fall 2013 shows were white. In stark comparison, a menial 6 percent of the models were black. So there’s no denying that the  fashion world has purposely limited the access of people of color.

It also comes as to no surprise that yet another publication has deemed it appropriate to put a white model in blackface in an obvious and desperate attempt to gain attention. Numéro magazine, a fashion publication based in France, tapped 16-year-old model Ondria Hardin to be in an editorial called “African Queen.” Dressed in a print jumpsuit, with over-sized jewelry and brown makeup.