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NAOMI CAMPBELL SHUNS RETIREMENT: Supermodel says she won't leave industry until more blacks appear on runways.
*Why does Naomi Campbell continue to work the runway at age 38, when her former colleagues of the supermodel era – including Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington – have all retired?
The model with the hair-trigger temper tells Reuters that she'll keep accepting shows until there are enough black models in the industry to carry on the torch.
"I'm very grateful for my career, but I worry for the girls after me for the opportunities they get -- the way they get treated. And this is one of the reasons I still do what I do," she told Reuters in a weekend interview in Nigeria.
Campbell, who as a teen was the first black model to grace the covers of the French and British editions of Vogue magazine, said many fashion designers still prefer fair-skinned black models over their dark-skinned counterparts.
"I don't do so many shows anymore, but I do count how many girls of color they use in the shows. It happens to be last year New York was the worst," said the British model. "Now at Paris Haute Couture there was only one black girl out of all the shows. It cannot be a trend."
Campbell said she's pleased that Italian Vogue decided to use black models in its July edition to highlight the problem.
"For me, it is something that is history-making. Something that I'm going to keep forever," she said about the magazine, which has a photo of her on one of four different covers.
Campbell was in Nigeria over the weekend to help kick-off a series of summer concert and fashion shows. The festival, sponsored by Nigerian newspaper This Day, will make stops in Washington next month and London in October and aims to showcase Africa's best music and fashion
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