Vogue's black model issue wins award

AN ISSUE of Italian Vogue that championed black models including Naomi Campbell and Jourdan Dunn was honoured today.

The edition, A Black Issue, which was published last July, won the fashion category in the 2009 Brit Insurance Design Awards. It will compete for Design of the Year at the Design Museum on 18 March.

Jourdan, the 18-year-old from Greenford who was spotted by an agency in a Hammersmith Primark three years ago, featured on the cover alongside Campbell, Ethiopian model Liya Kebede and Sessilee Lopez, the American who dated Kanye West.

Judges, chaired by BBC executive Alan Yentob, called the Vogue issue "a cultural watershed". A poster for Barack Obama's election campaign by US street artist Stepard Fairey won in the graphics category. The work will be at the Design Museum until 14 June.