Supermodel icon Iman took the stage at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday for “Fashion Icons,” a 90-minute moderated interview where virtually no topic is off limits. The 60-year-old became especially candid when discussing racially insensitive comments made early in her illustrious career.
One editorial comment that really upset Iman, she told New York Fashion Week creator Fern Mallis, was made in a 1976 Essence magazine piece when Marcia Gillespie, the magazine’s editor-in-chief at the time, described Iman as “a white woman dipped in chocolate.” Coming from a premiere African-American publication, the comparison was particularly problematic because it declared that Iman’s physical features don’t reflect those of a black woman.
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