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dipsydoodle

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Mon Jul 1, 2013, 02:11 PM Jul 2013

Prada cast a black model for the first time in TWO DECADES

Prada have cast a black model for their fall/winter 13 campaign for the first time since 1994.

Malaika Firth, a Kenyan-born, U.K.-raised model, is one of seven in the new ad campaign, starring alongside the likes of industry heavyweight Christy Turlington and Chinese model Fei Fei Sun.

Prada rarely hires Asian and black models so the 19-year-old's inclusion in the campaign is something of a milestone.

Malaika, who has been modelling since 2011, is the first black face of Prada since Naomi Campbell in 1994.

Between Campbell's runway appearance in 1993, and 2008, when Jourdan Dunn took to the catwalk, Prada had no black models in any of its women's runway shows.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2352677/Prada-cast-black-model-time-TWO-DECADES.html#ixzz2Xop1UV44

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