--- title: Chrissy Teigen Diversity Fashion Industry description: Find out what Chrissy Teigen said about the strides the fashion industry still needs to make when it comes to diversity. canonical: https://time.com/4676986/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion-industry/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-21T17:14:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:53.036Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Sounds Off on Diversity in the Fashion Industry og:description: 'I think Asian models are really underrepresented' og:url: https://time.com/4676986/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion-industry/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9df35c61800bc873/6988bb280b72e3bc7a6ecb21/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2854 og:image:height: 1605 og:image:alt: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 NYC Launch Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Sounds Off on Diversity in the Fashion Industry twitter:description: 'I think Asian models are really underrepresented' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9df35c61800bc873/6988bb280b72e3bc7a6ecb21/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Sounds Off on Diversity in the Fashion Industry > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated) NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 16: Chrissy Teigen attends Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 NYC launch event at Center415 Event Space on February 16, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated) Nicholas Hunt—Getty Images for Sports Illustra  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Feb 21, 2017 5:14 PM UTC [Chrissy Teigen](http://motto.time.com/4654934/chrissy-teigen-ivf-plans-baby-boy/?iid=sr-link3) says that the modeling industry still has strides to make when it comes to diversity. At the [_Sports Illustrated_ Swim 2017](http://motto.time.com/4667180/kate-upton-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-2017/?iid=sr-link1) launch party, [the outspoken model](http://motto.time.com/4661009/chrissy-teigen-donald-trump-tweet/?iid=sr-link2) was asked by [E! News](http://www.eonline.com/news/830419/chrissy-teigen-talks-diversity-in-modeling-calls-asians-underrepresented-at-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-launch) about why it’s so important that [this year’s issue focused on diversity](http://motto.time.com/4667180/kate-upton-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-2017/). MJ Day, _SI_’s _Swimsuit_ issue editor, [told Motto](http://motto.time.com/4667180/kate-upton-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-2017/?iid=sr-link1)that she wanted the issue to convey that beauty isn’t limited to any standardized look or ideal. Teigen, who is Thai, Norwegian and German, said it was personally important for her to see a variety of women in magazine pages. “I want it to be a normal thing to be able to see Asian models, and I think Asian models are really underrepresented in the industry, especially on the runways, in magazines,” Teigen told E! News. “It’s really nice to be able to come up in a magazine and make your people proud… My mom every day is like ‘Oh my god, Thailand is so excited that you’re in the issue!’ and I’m like ‘Oh my god, Thailand knows about me!'” Teigen’s comments follow [a controversial shoot in _Vogue_‘s March issue](http://time.com/4671287/karlie-kloss-vogue-backlash/?iid=sr-link5), where model Karlie Kloss, who is white, posed in conventional Japanese style. Kloss [later apologized](https://twitter.com/karliekloss/status/831778961600417793) for “participating in a shoot that was not culturally sensitive.” While Teigen didn’t directly address the _Vogue_ shoot, she did discuss the issue of [cultural appropriation](http://fashionista.com/2015/12/cultural-appropriation-in-2015) in the fashion industry. “I personally am not offended by cultural appropriation of any sort because I feel like it does pay homage, but at the same time there are a lot of beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, Asian women that could do the same thing,” she said. \[[E! News](http://www.eonline.com/news/830419/chrissy-teigen-talks-diversity-in-modeling-calls-asians-underrepresented-at-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-launch)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4676986/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion-industry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4676986/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion-industry/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen Sounds Off on Diversity in the Fashion Industry","datePublished":"2017-02-21T17:14:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:53.036Z","description":"'I think Asian models are really underrepresented'","url":"https://time.com/4676986/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion-industry/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9df35c61800bc873/6988bb280b72e3bc7a6ecb21/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9df35c61800bc873/6988bb280b72e3bc7a6ecb21/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 NYC Launch Event","caption":"Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 NYC Launch Event","creditText":"Nicholas Hunt—Getty Images for Sports Illustra","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4676986/chrissy-teigen-diversity-fashion-industry/","name":"Chrissy Teigen Sounds Off on Diversity in the Fashion Industry"}}]}] ```