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Given how much diversity we're beginning to see on TV—and the fact that a sense of exploding diversity was a sticking point in this year's election—it can be hard to remember that most media and marketing remains pretty vanilla.
But instead of talking more about it, West African model Deddeh "DD" Howard decided to show it. Along with her partner Raffael Dickreuter, a designer, photographer and virtual reality specialist, she's created an image campaign where prominent high-fashion print ads are almost perfectly remade—with white-skinned models replaced by dark-skinned DD.
Above, DD replaces Gisele Bundchen for Vivara.
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