'We have one black girl, we don't need you': Victoria's Secret Angel Chanel Iman

This woman is beautiful..how sad in 2013.

How can this still be happening!

‘Designers have told me, ‘We already found one black girl. We don’t need you any more’”

Chanel Iman has a date. “A second date,” the 22-year-old model says, sitting in a booth in the Jane hotel, New York, on a Sunday afternoon. The first went well. “We had an incredible conversation and got to know each other. This time I’m hoping to get a little more… personal.” Her second-date outfit is a floaty shirt, short skirt and thigh-high boots. A woman passes by and does a double take, exclaiming, “Oh my goodness.” The 5ft 10in model looks down at her legs and laughs: “Does this look ‘after church’?”

Miss Iman said that all-black magazine issues, like Vogue Italia's, don't necessarily help, either.

'It doesn't help us; it just puts us into a category,' she said.

Instead, she calls for more diversity in the often all-white fashion shows as well as magazines.

Miss Iman explained: 'There needs to be a permanency [about] using black models," she says. "You still see all-white shows in Europe and New York.'

However fashion photographer Steven Meisel, who shoots campaigns for Valentino, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton and Prada said he often faces negative feedback from clients when he casts models of color for big jobs.

'I've asked my advertising clients so many times, "Can we use a black girl?" They say no. Advertisers say black models don't sell.'

This is really a shame. Beautiful Black women really have it hard.

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