‘Inclusion Is A Trend For These Folks’: Kerby Jean-Raymond Calls Out ‘Insulting’ BOF 500 Gala

“BoF 499, I’m off the list,” Pyer Moss designer Kerby Jean-Raymond wrote from Paris Monday night. He may have only posted it to Instagram Stories, but it was a major statement nonetheless. In September, Jean-Raymond was one of the 100 fashion professionals added to Business of Fashion’s prestigious ongoing list of people shaping the global fashion industry, alongside the likes of Lizzo, Dapper Dan, Lindsay Peoples Wagner, Nathan Westling and more. But while attending the BoF 500 Gala in Paris Monday night, an annual event to celebrate these members, he took to social media to publicly condemn it for the seemingly disingenuous way in which it addressed diversity and inclusion. Read more at Fashionista.