This weekend, celebrity stylist and Cardi B’s right hand Kollin Carter used his platform to call-out a fashion showroom in Los Angeles, California. Carter, who usually stays behind the scenes brought light to a racist comment made by Mikey Stone, Co-founder of The Archive Showroom. “We HAVE to start holding these businesses accountable that benefit from our culture,” the stylist wrote on Instagram.

Carter leaked an alleged message from Stone calling their Black customers “Felicia”and expressing discrepancy with the amount of Black customers in the showroom’s pieces. “I can’t have 20 Black girls all wearing the same dress,” Stone allegedly wrote in one message and “Why so many Black clients you guys. No offense. But It’s just so African American lately,” in another. Carter also exposed the owner for dropping an employee for dressing too many Black clients.

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We HAVE to start holding these businesses accountable that benefit from our culture! The things you see circled in red are written by @mikey_stone one of the owners of @thearchshow showroom. This is what he said to a good friend of mine. She later got dropped as a client for dressing too many black girls. He referred to request for black clients as “Felicia” request along with all the other racial things that were said. Funny thing is their last biggest placement is with the city girls, two black QUEENS dominating the game rite now!!!)I contemplated addressing this publicly but I want you all to see how racist people are behind closed doors and how they then turn around and use us for their benefit. This is completely unacceptable. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.

A post shared by Kollin Carter (@kollincarter) on Jul 18, 2020 at 9:01am PDT

Since the deaths of many Black Americans by the hands of the police were made global, within the last few weeks all eyes have been on specific industries that have historically treated Black people unfairly – one being the fashion space. Within this time, many brands have come forward with new initiatives to support Black Lives Matter movements while others have gotten exposed for their racist practices. “I contemplated addressing this publicly but I want you all to see how racist people are behind closed doors and how they then turn around and use us for their benefit. This is completely unacceptable. You all should be ashamed of yourselves,” Carter concluded.

The Archive Showroom has made no official comment.

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