Black Lives Matter in fashion school, a case study

The nation’s institutions spent the summer urgently examining recruitment practices, policy and syllabus creation as a direct result of this spring's Black Lives Matter reckoning. In June, on what became known as Blackout Tuesday, when schools posted a black square on their social media pages to denounce racism, the pushback was swift. Alumni took to comments sections to level accusations of hypocrisy and performative allyship at their alma maters. The debacle forced schools to literally course-correct.