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"It may not seem like earth-shattering news, but the itty bitty increase of women of color on the runway at New York Fashion Week is indeed a good sign for an industry that has long struggled to accurately represent the people who actually wear the clothes it produces. The team over at Loop 21 (via The Cut) did their regular post-NYFW cataloging of which models walked in which shows, according to ethnic diversity, and they found a slight uptick in non-white models on the runways (their categories were broken down into Black, Asian, Hispanic, Non-White/Race Unknown). Out of 200 designers who showed their collections, more than 90% cast at least one black model (compared to 83% last fall). Up-and-comer Altuzarra was a leader in the most-diverse-runway race, along with Tracy Reese and Sophie Theallet (both of whom we&amp;#x27;ve praised for their rainbow of a runway before), and Tara Subkoff&amp;#x27;s Imitation label. It may be a mere seven percent increase, but it&amp;#x27;s a solid step in the right direction towards better representation on the runways. As Loop21 writes, &amp;quot;If this trend continues, soon enough we may end up with runways that actually reflect the diversity of the world at large, something New York Fashion Week&amp;amp;#8217;s Chief, Fern Mallis, said should ultimately be the goal.&amp;quot; Are you gals as happy as we are to see more diversity on the runway? Do you think we still have a long way to go? PLUS... - Betsey Johnson brings va-va-voom back to the runway with serious curves AND! - On our radar: 5 fashion models poised for the silver screen More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check out our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photo: courtesy of style.com Want even more STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3}); "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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