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Model and Activist
About Chanel Iman
At 16, Chanel Iman became the youngest Black model to walk for Victoria’s Secret, a milestone that spotlighted both her precocious talent and the industry’s narrow gatekeeping. Rather than accept tokenism, she leveraged that platform to co-found the Diversity Coalition in 2015, a behind-the-scenes initiative pressuring major fashion houses to audit casting data and hire inclusive creative teams. Her advocacy isn’t performative: she testified before the CFDA’s Inclusion Council in 2018 with anonymized hiring metrics from three seasons of NYFW, pushing for mandatory transparency reports. Off runway, she produced the 2022 documentary 'Threadlines,' following six young designers from underrepresented communities as they navigated Fashion Week without legacy agency backing. Her voice carries weight because it’s calibrated, equal parts insider knowledge and outsider critique, rooted in lived experience navigating elite spaces while refusing to let them define her terms.
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- “What was the turning point that made you shift from modeling to organizing the Diversity Coalition?”
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