Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner and Sandrine Charles, fashion publicist and owner of Sandrine Charles Consulting, have co-founded the Black in Fashion Council to represent and secure the advancement of black individuals in the fashion and beauty industry. 

Black in Fashion Council will launch this month in partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Vogue has reported that Lindsay and Sandrine have also enlisted support of the Human Rights Campaign to establish an equality index score that will provide benchmarking around corporate policies and practices pertinent to the inclusivity of black employees. 

Lindsay told Vogue: "The Human Rights Campaign already has a Corporate Equality Index for people with disabilities and the LGBTQ community that companies like Kering are already a part of... This would be a way to continue to give companies a report card of accountability without them feeling like they're being shamed into it, and giving them actual resources of what people are saying they want to see changed."

The Council’s executive board includes GQ USA deputy fashion director Nikki Ogunnaike, costume designer Shiona Turini, and Brandice Daniel, the founder of Harlem's Fashion Row.