Fashion is an industry that lacks formal accountability. Like most institutions in the U.S. and around the world, it was founded on eurocentric ideals that prioritized whiteness and condemned Blackness. But unlike many of those institutions, fashion has no governing body to make sure its campaigns reflect the world we live in. Thus, Bethann Hardison became the governing body fashion desperately needed, and Invisible Beauty shows viewers that the industry owes her everything. The documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival , follows Hardison’s influence on fashion, past, present and future. The 80-year-old has been in the game for over five decades, and she continues to alter the fabric of the industry by paving the way for BIPOC to succeed.
