Zoë Kravitz Covers Nylon Magazine August 2015. Talks About Coming to Appreciate Black Culture.

Zoe Kravitz


Shot by Bella Howard and styled by Sean Knight, Zoë Kravitz rocks 70’s-inspired fashion for the August issue of Nylon magazine. The budding actress talked about the issue of race in her movie roles and her experiences growing up and trying to fit in at a predominately white school.

As one of few black kids in her predominately white school, she remembers saying things like, “I’m just as white as y’all,” to her classmates. “I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in,” she says. “I didn’t identify with black culture, like, I didn’t like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn’t into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.” But as time went on, her views shifted. “Black culture is so much deeper than that,” she says, “but unfortunately that is what’s fed through the media. That’s what people see. That’s what I saw. But then I got older and listened to A Tribe Called Quest and watched films with Sidney Poitier, and heard Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. I had to un-brainwash myself. It’s my mission, especially as an actress.”


Zoe Kravitz

Zoe Kravitz

Zoe Kravitz


images and excerpt via Nylon.