The name Bethann Hardison may not be familiar if you don’t keep an eye on the fashion world, but you’ve definitely witnessed her tireless dedication to making the fashion industry more inclusive and diverse. The new documentary Invisible Beauty demonstrates why we owe Hardison a world of gratitude.

Invisible Beauty explores Hardison’s career from defiantly strutting onto the French and American fashion scene as an unmistakably Black model to being the first Black woman to own a racially diverse modeling agency to calling out design houses, including Calvin Klein and Prada, for their “No Blacks, no ethnics” attitude about casting models to starting the Black Girls Coalition. Hardison was personally responsible for the barrier-breaking career of Tyson Beckford in the 1990s and ’00s, and her influence also affected the careers of supermodels Naomi Campbell, Kimora Lee Simmons, Tyra Banks, and more.

Hardison co-directed Invisible Beauty with Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I, Halston). It features candid recollections with Hardison’s son, actor Kadeem Hardison, and Film Forum describes it as, “part memoir, warts and all, […] and part paean to an unsung hero.” The Magnolia Pictures film also features Iman, Zendaya, Tracee Ellis Ross, Pat Cleaveland, Veronica Webb, 

Invisible Beauty is playing now in theaters.