• Forever Fine: Angela Bassett Proves She's Eternally Bae on the Cover of Porter Magazine 

    Is there anyone more #AgeGoals than Angela Bassett? Twenty-five years after famously sculpting her body into super-toned shape to play music icon Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It, Bassett’s face remains flawless and her 59-year-old body (she turns 60 in August) is still sleek, muscular, and shown off to perfection as…

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  • She Got That Glow: Anok Yai Is the Newest Face of Estée Lauder

    Barely a week ago, we were applauding the stratospheric rise of model Anok Yai, whose career famously began when the then-college sophomore was photographed by a street-style photographer at Howard University’s 2017 Homecoming celebration. In the months since, Yai has signed with one of the biggest agencies in the world (Next Models), appeared in British…

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  • Grab Your Girls and Celebrate Your Curls: CurlFest Returns to Brooklyn This Saturday!

    New York naturalistas, where you at? If you’re a devoted member of #TeamNatural, you’re hopefully already familiar with the experiential marketing group known as the Curly Girl Collective, and if you live in the New York City tri-state area, this is the weekend to take part in the largest celebration of natural hair in the…

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  • Level Up: The Latest Lyst Index Indicates That Black Influence Is Finally Being Recognized

    Keep on risin’ to the top! Today, global fashion search platform Lyst released its second 2018 installment of The Lyst Index, its quarterly report ranking the fashion industry’s most in-demand labels and products. Analyzing the online shopping habits of over 5 million shoppers monthly spanning approximately 12,000 global retailers and labels, Lyst compiled their results…

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  • Burberry Burning? British Retailer Reportedly Torched Over $33 Million of Unsold Merchandise

    Burberry, baby. What is you doing? Understandably, high-end brands want to keep their cache (and fashion plagiarism is a very real thing), but the British luxury retailer Burberry has taken protecting their brand to new extremes, reportedly burning over $33 million in unsold merchandise rather than sell it at discount or donate it. This is…

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  • Harlem Renaissance: Gucci-Dapper Dan Goes Live!

    We’ve been buzzing about the renaissance of the Harlem-based designer known as Dapper Dan so long, it’s hard to believe that his much-anticipated collaboration with former nemesis Gucci only launched this week. After all, we’ve been seeing teases for months: in Beyoncé’s tour wardrobe, on any number of red carpets, and most recently, on both…

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  • Harlem and Hijabs: Model Adesuwa Aighewi Turns Director With a Celebration of Muslim Beauty

    When Adesuwa Aighewi opened the Chanel couture show in early July with her locs flowing over her Lagerfeld-designed suit, heads turned. But Aighewi created another head-turning moment, making her production and directorial debut in a short film for Love magazine, celebrating the incomparable beauty of Muslim culture through a group of Harlem women raised in…

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  • The Apocalypse is Nigh: Crocs Created a High Heel

    Just when you were wondering what the 53 percent would be wearing to vote in this year’s midterm elections, Crocs has the answer, creating a high heel so that they can continue to vote against their self-interests in style. I kid, I kid … kind of. But seriously: As if it wasn’t terrifying enough when…

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  • Beauty Beats Brexit: Heptathlete Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers Is the 1st Black Miss Universe Great Britain

    Here’s what you call a game-changer: For the first time in its 66-year history, Miss Universe Great Britain—the qualifying pageant for the Miss Universe competition—gave the crown to a black woman. But the history-making honor didn’t go to your average pageant queen; winner Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers is a heptathlete with a head full of gorgeous locs,…

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  • 'Mother' to Mogul: Pat McGrath's Makeup Line Is Now Valued at $1 Billion

    The “Mothership” has landed. Famed makeup artist and creator Pat McGrath, who has been the fashion industry’s most respected name in makeup for over two decades (and honored by Queen Elizabeth) just officially became the top earner in the beauty industry (sorry, Kylie) after global investment firm Eurazeo Brands bought a $60 million minority stake…

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