Naomi Campbell believes the recession is preventing black models getting work.

The outspoken supermodel claims advertising executives shy away from using ethnic models in their campaigns because they “don’t dare” risk losing sales.

“This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced. I don’t see any black woman, or of any other race, in big advertising campaigns,” Naomi lamented in Sunday’s issue of The Telegraph.

Last summer, the volatile 39-year-old appeared in Vogue Italia’s Black Issue, in celebration of Black women in fashion.

“That made some noise but, unfortunately, we are the same as before. People, in the panic of recession, don’t dare to put a girl of colour in their campaign, full stop.”