Prada Casts Black Model in Ad Campaign for the First Time in Almost Two Decades

July 2, 2013 · by PR · in STYLE. ·

For the first time in 19 years, Prada has cast a black model in an advertising campaign.
Prada Casts Black Model in Ad Campaign for the First Time in Almost Two Decades Maiaika Firth
The brand’s Fall 2013 advertisements feature Christy Turlington, Freja Beha Erichsen, Catherine McNeil, Fei Fei Sun, Amanda Murphy, Caroline de Maigret, and Malaika Firth, a bi-racial 19-year-old, who, according to Jezebel, was born in Kenya and raised in the UK. Jezebel editor Jenna Sauers writes, “Firth was a newborn in diapers the last time a black woman was a face of Prada.” The last black model to star in a Prada ad campaign was Naomi Campbell back in 1994.
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