Deddeh Howard, a Liberia-born, L.A.-based model and blogger,
was fed up with seeing fashion campaigns feature so few models of color. So,
with the help of her photographer boyfriend Raffael Dickreuter, she re-created
major campaigns from brands like Chanel and Gucci fronted by Gisele Bündchen,
Gigi Hadid, Kate Moss, and more. She took three months to put it together,
making sure photos would look as close to identical as possible from the
clothes and accessories to the poses and expressions on her face.
Howard, 27, titled the project Black Mirror and launched it
on her blog Tuesday with a call for more inclusivity in the fashion industry.
"In a time where Black people too often are in the media for being
underrepresented at important events such as the Oscars or make headlines for
being targeted by the police I felt it was time to do something positive and
inspiring about my race," she writes. "I'm personally fighting for
more diversity."
