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Reebok x Pyer Moss Scores a Big Win at the Footwear News Awards
Pyer Moss’ rise continues. Following a nice bit of product placement from musician Anderson .Paak during last weekend’s Saturday Night Live performance, on Monday night, the label was awarded Collaboration of the Year for their ongoing partnership with Reebok at the Footwear News Achievement Awards, sponsored by Ruffino Wines. The honor comes only a year…
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Keep That Same Energy: Teyana Taylor Channeled Medusa and Donatella for Versace
When you think of Versace, inevitably, a few things come to mind, chief among them creative director and muse Donatella and the Medusa that adorns the Italian fashion house’s logo. And these are exactly the icons Teyana Taylor was channeling when she dressed to impress for Sunday’s Versace Pre-Fall 2019 show at the American Stock…
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Nights Over Egypt: Chanel—and Pharrell—Walk Through the Met Museum's Temple of Dendur
A legendary French fashion house and an American hit-maker walk into an Egyptian temple… Okay, it kind of sounds like a setup for an off-color joke, but it’s actually a thing that happened on Monday night, as Chanel staged its Metiers d’Art 2018-19 show in the Temple of Dendur exhibit within New York City’s Metropolitan…
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12 Days of Gifting, Day 2: Home(bodies) for the Holidays
It’s Day Two of The Glow Up’s 12 Days of Gifting—and, as promised, we’re back with more ideas for you! I don’t know about you, but my ideal winter vacation is actually a staycation. While the weather outside is frightful (I live in Chicago, so that’s a very real possibility this time of year), I…
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Who’s That Lady? Oprah Leads Our Bimonthly Black Magazine Cover Roundup!
How’s this for recognizability: Elle India was so confident in Oprah’s famous image that acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger shot one of their two 22nd anniversary covers with the “queen of all media” facing away from camera, showing off a heavily embellished jacket by Anamika Khanna. On an alternate cover and inside the issue, we see…
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Wooowwwww…The Women of Red Table Talk Are on the 1st Digital Cover of Harper's Bazaar!
There’s a famous holiday song called “We Three Kings,” but three queens are featured on Harper’s Bazaar’s first digital cover, namely, Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the three generations represented on the hit Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk. In fact, to say their series is a hit is a bit of…
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Holidazed? Welcome to Our 12 Days of Gifting—Launched with Luxury
Okay, Glow Up gang: It’s officially December, and if you haven’t already, you need to start shopping for the holidays. Sure, we know not everyone celebrates, but for those who do, we also know not everyone is easy to shop for. For instance, what do you get the person who seemingly already has everything, without…
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Jungle Love: Versace Stages an Animal-Printed, Star-Studded Pre-Fall '19 Show
If you’re not into animal prints, you might want to sit 2019 out since label after label has been proving that nature’s most organic prints aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. The latest to send lions, tigers and bears (okay, zebras) down their runway? Versace, who showed their Pre-Fall 2019 collection at the American Stock Exchange…
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She Wore Every Country in Africa: How Beyoncé Slayed Global Citizen
How do you top a history-making appearance at Coachella, a couture-laden world tour, and a collaboration with Balmain? If you’re Beyoncé, you use a headlining appearance at the 2018 Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 on Sunday to make some major African-inspired fashion statements. Yes, we know the point of the festival this year, which is…
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'I Am Numb': Tarana Burke Gets Real About the Cost of Leading—and Living—#MeToo
“This movement is constantly being called a ‘watershed moment’ or even a reckoning,” Tarana Burke told the audience at TED Women 2018. “But I wake up some days feeling like all evidence points to the contrary. … It’s hard not to feel numb.” It was an unexpected admission from the founder of the Me Too…
