, anyone who wears clothes is affected by the decisions of those in the upper echelon of the fashion industry, whether you’re a style expert or couldn’t care less about what’s in your closet. Perhaps because of that universal connection, the genre of fashion documentaries is particularly vast.
Bethann Hardison is one of the most important activists in all of fashion: She was one of the first Black models to make it big in the 1970s, and by the early ‘80s, she’d switched gears to devote her powerful voice to expanding opportunities for other Black women in the fashion industry.