Alek wek

Alek Wek 🖤

Sudanese born model Alek Wek, who alongside modelling & designing her own bag line – is a missionary for World Vision, an ambassador for Doctors Without Borders in Sudan, and devotes time…

Newsstand browsers have always been able to open a magazine and see women who look like Alek Wek. Unfortunately, that magazine was National Geographic. It made African-American women who hap…

Remember when Kirsty Hume broke the Internet on the Victoria’s Secret catwalk? Well, read on—plus 11 more model turns from the VS runway.

Alek Wek shot by Robert Tardio

While it’s still more common to see light-skinned black entertainers top the charts and bag the leading lady roles, things are changing slowly but surely. Colourism is increasingly being called out in the entertainment industry, and elsewhere too, and the beauty of dark-skinned women is increasingly being recognized and championed by the global modelling and beauty industries. There are so many African beauty queens with dark skin but most South Sudan women are the darkest in Africa because…

Anastasia Vartanian on Instagram: “Alek Wek for Herve Leger in 1999, further proving how the year i was born was such a good year for fashion 🌸 via: @virgomood”

ALEK WEK for Style and the Family Tunes

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The incredible top moel Alek Wek is styled by Pedro Sales in ‘Novo Glam’, high drama black and whites lensed by Luigi & Iango for Vogue Brazil March 2020.