COLOR OF COUTURE

In the pursuit of visualizing 8000 images from the 2016 runways, I came across an interesting discovery about the uniformity of runway models. We all know the stereotype of models seemingly all coming from the same mold. By sorting these images by skin color and aligning their eyes, the extremity of the lack of diversity in the high fashion world is made evident. Nearly 8000 images blend into one face. The last 10-15 seconds of this four minute video are the only portion of the video where we start to see women of color.

I started by scraping 23,000 images from Vogue.com, and filtering out certain images  (photoshoots not on runways, men, duplicates, etc.)   In the end I was left with approximately 8000 images.  I then tracked the face in order to derive average skin color, sort them by brightness of skin color, and align the models by their eyes to create this shocking reel.