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CHANEL IMAN has spoken about the "struggle" she faced as a young black model in the fashion industry, adding that while she thinks it has got better, there is room for improvement.

"I think it was a struggle when I first started, just because it was always one black girl per show, or campaign, or whatever it was.I couldn't stand it, because I just felt like I was being judged a lot, rather than accepted for who I was," the Vogue cover girl and former Victoria's Secret Angel told Teen Vogue."I feel like fashion's opened up a lot with having rappers in campaigns, and more colour on the runway, but of course there's room for more of it, and more diversity.It's nice to be part of a culture change."

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Iman's fellow models have, however, been more direct in their critique of the slow speed at which said change is happening.In March, British model Leomie Anderson spoke out about how ill-equipped many make-up artists are to properly work with darker skin, tweeting:

"Why is it that the black make-up artists are busy with blonde, white girls and slaying their make-up and I have to supply my own foundation?Why are there more white make-up artists backstage than black when black ones can do all races' make-up?This is probably the first season that a white hairdresser hasn't said to me 'Oh I've done Naomi Campbell's weave, I know what I'm doing.'"

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Campbell herself was quick to back Anderson's comments, telling Teen Vogue that she found it "disappointing to hear that models of colour are still encountering these same issues" as she did when she started out in the Nineties.