What started over pizza in Milan with Miuccia Prada has become a model worth mimicking when it comes to bringing more diverse creatives into the fold.
While it may not be an all-encompassing salve since it doesn’t solve the issue of corporate representation, which still needs work across the industry, it starts to chip away at what Gates sees as the root of the problem: access to a network for the many that functions like the old boys’ clubs have for the few.
To get there and actively hire more people from diverse backgrounds, it will take first believing there’s value beyond the homogeneous group, something perhaps fewer than are willing to admit subscribe to. But as has happened with many brands, Prada found itself facing backlash for racially insensitive products.
“Then it was the Experimental Design Lab and Dorchester Industries talking to the Prada corporation about how a small Black institution could work with a large Italian institution to do something great for design in the future,” he said.“I take this from the visual art world,” Gates explained. “You make an object and the object is in a back closet and no one knows that it’s a special object. People would imagine that it’s kind of secondary, tertiary.
“You see it all the time, that there’s — I guess a nice word would be borrowing from the cultural complexities of the world — sometimes you can call it appropriation, but it would be really amazing to see senior directors of fashion houses who are from Mali and Ghana and Kenya and mainland China, Hong Kong, and imagining the diversity of voices and how those things might deeply impact the DNA of a place like Prada,” he continued. “I think it’s all upside.
For now, though, there’s still a need for fashion companies to be corporately generous, and that doesn’t mean throwing money at a problem or chasing racial representation numbers solely for the sake of corporate responsibility.
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