Fashion
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Fashion Forward – Essence
Here’s what the Afrofuturistic style of dressing has meant to our culture—and what the future of Black fashion may entail.…
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Black fashion has never waited for an invitation to New York Fashion Week
From Harlem’s Fashion Row to Ophelia DeVore, we break down how Black creatives continue to make NYFW their own. New…
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How Fashion Week Forgot Its Black Inspiration
Nevertheless, DeVore’s daughter Carol, now 83 and living in Georgia, fondly remembers commenting alongside her mother at that 1970 show.…
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Why Black Women Should Embrace Wearing Color—According To A Fashion Psychologist
Fashion has always been about expression. But lately, color feels different. Instead of simply punctuating outfits, bold hues are carrying…
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Celebrating Black Life, One Thread At A Time
In an era when fast-fashion labels are cranking out items at breakneck speed, some Black-owned brands are slowing things down…
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Fashion People Are Swapping Black for This Color Right Now—and Everything Looks Better For It
If you haven’t heard, there’s a new staple color in town and she’s cousins with black. Brown has always served…
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For Emerging Black Talent, Fashion Is the Pipeline to Fame
There’s something to be said about the role fashion plays in our lives. It introduces us to a room before…
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From Olandria Carthen to Tyriq Withers, Fashion Seems to Be the Pipeline to Fame for Black Talent
There’s something to be said about the role fashion plays in our lives. It introduces us to a room before…
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A Celebration of Black Culture, Faith, And Style
Source: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock / Getty Easter Sunday has long transcended its religious significance within the Black community to become…
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Black Dress Talks highlight the realities of the fashion industry
Over a decade ago, Adrienne Jones, an artist, fashion designer, and professor at the Brooklyn-based Pratt Institute, received several scrapbooks…
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