{"id":1438,"date":"2011-06-22T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=1438"},"modified":"2011-06-22T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:04:48","slug":"a-new-shade-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/a-new-shade-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Shade of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/06\/000000187689-diandra_forrest-fit.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1439 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"000000187689-diandra_forrest-fit\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/06\/000000187689-diandra_forrest-fit-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a>For many African models it is hard enough making it in an industry that is predominantly Caucasian, but for Diandra Forrest had something extra to work with.\u00a0 For those that do not already know, Diandra Forrest is a fashion model, who happens to be Albino as well.\u00a0 She was discovered by chance, walking down the streets of New York City, the city she calls home.\u00a0 Ever since her discovery and being the first model with Albinism to be signed to a major modeling agency in the United States(Elite Models), she has been pushing boundaries and challenging the concept of what it means to be beautiful.\u00a0 Growing up with Albinism was never an easy task, getting teased by other children, but Diandra learned to make a career out of what she was once made fun of for and has made people see that people with Albinism are beautiful too.\u00a0 There are a few other African models with Albinism, such as Shaun Ross, who are just now claiming their own spot in the vicious world of fashion.\u00a0 These models are showing us amazing things and making us realize we need to broaden our horizons to see the natural beauty all around us.<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.bossip.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many African models it is hard enough making it in an industry that is predominantly Caucasian, but for Diandra Forrest had something extra to work with.\u00a0 For those that do not already know, Diandra Forrest is a fashion model, who happens to be Albino as well.\u00a0 She was discovered by chance, walking down the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[83,197,404,405,406,407,408,409],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}