Think Tank: What Fashion Can Learn From Tech’s Diversity Woes

The fashion industry has been rocked by more than one racial faux pas in recent weeks, forcing brands to respond to the lack of diversity and inclusion within their companies and throughout the industry. Responses range from public relations moves at Burberry and Gucci, the formation of an advisory council at Prada, to the appointment of full-time diversity and inclusion chiefs. It was just a few years ago when the tech industry was first called out for its lack of diversity and inclusion. Diversity advocates then joined forces to address racial inequities in tech through the 2011 launch of Black Girls Code, Code2040 in 2012 and the opening of the Kapor Center’s new hub for tech and social impact. Yet after years of criticism of Silicon Valley’s diversity problem, along with industry and interest groups developing solutions for change, the number of people of color working in tech continues to fall short. What can fashion learn from tech’s slow response to its diversity and inclusion crisis? Kenya Wiley  In the same way that tech touches our lives in our hyperconnected world, fashion impacts all of us. Whether we’re wearing luxury, streetwear or fast fashion, we all make conscious decisions daily about what clothing we

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