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Model Anok Yai Reacts To Carine Roitfeld's Comments; Urges Fashion Industry to Educate Themselves

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Anok Yai is speaking out after Carine Roitfeld shared “tone-deaf” comments about the Black Lives Matter movement.

If you didn’t see, Carine, who is the EIC of Harper’s Bazaar, posted an image of her embracing Anok at an event, and when replying to a comment said that “Anok is not a black woman, she is my friend.” In a piece for O magazine, Anok opened up about the comments and called them “jarring”. “A lot of people have asked what my reaction was to an insensitive post from a friend of mine on Instagram last week.

Of course, it was jarring—and it was just one of many similar microaggressions I’ve experienced during my time in fashion,” Anok wrote. “But the bigger point I’d like to focus on is that the fashion industry needs to become

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