When Prada, Gucci and Burberry recently apologized for using racist imagery that drew an outcry online and calls for boycotts, discussion surged about the fashion industry’s strained history with blacks. Brandice Daniel, founder and chief executive of Harlem’s Fashion Row, a business that helps emerging designers of color, saw the painful incidents as an opportunity. They are “helping to speed up progress” just as crises helped advance the civil-rights movement, Ms. Daniel said recently in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood,...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 25, 2019 13:52 UTC