The "all-black issue"

An interest-piquing feature in NYT today on the upcoming issue of Italian Vogue, featuring the work of photographer Steven Meisel:

"For the July issue of Italian Vogue, Mr. Meisel has photographed only black models. In a reverse of the general pattern of fashion magazines, all the faces are black, and all the feature topics are related to black women in the arts and entertainment."

I'm of a conflicted mind here: certainly celebrating a challenge to the status quo (near exclusive whiteness) of the fashion industry, but something about the black-only issue seems amiss. Like it's in the vein of "separate but equal," giving these women their own issue to make up for their exclusion the rest of the year (although Italian Vogue's editor does sound more progressive than her American counterparts in the article.) Or, at worst, even fetishization - "all the faces are black"?

Is the goal of a seamlessly diverse fashion world really so far-fetched? And then we could just get back to focusing on how they're all too skinny.