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Best Dressed and Unbothered: Tracee Ellis Ross Covers InStyle’s November Issue
“I’m a winner, baby!” Okay, so, Tracee Ellis Ross likely didn’t scream that walking down the streets of Paris in couture for InStyle magazine’s Best Dressed issue, but she was definitely channeling her famous mama, giving us Mahogany vibes as she gleefully twirled in hot pink chiffon. But it’s no understatement to say Ellis Ross…
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All Abuse Isn’t Visible: Serena Williams Fights Financial Abuse With the Purple Purse Project
Most of us think we know what domestic abuse looks like, but in 99 percent of intimate partner violence cases, the most disabling aspect is often financial, exacting a level of control over victims that prevents them from escaping. As an ambassador for Allstate’s Purple Purse Project, tennis phenom and entrepreneur Serena Williams has made…
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Birthday Beauty: Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty’s 1st Year With a New Drop and a Retro Look
It’s been quite a month for the multifaceted Rihanna; on Sept. 12, she shut down New York Fashion Week with a Savage x Fenty show so hot it sent Fenty Beauty muse Slick Woods into labor. Two days later, she dazzled her celebrity friends with her fourth annual Diamond Ball, benefitting her Clara Lionel Foundation.…
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It’s a Wrap! Urbanworld Closes Its 22nd Year With a Very Promising Slate of Fall Films
Collaboration, innovation and the power of women—these were recurrent themes at the 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival, which brought unseen gems, highly-anticipated box office hits, and established and up-and-coming filmmakers and talents from all over the world together for five incredible days in New York City. The week, which opened with the Tiffany Haddish and Kevin…
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Kanye's Homecoming Tour Continues—With a Very Poignant Stop in Chicago
As a native Chicagoan (of Kanye’s generation), I’ve admittedly been skeptical about his reunion with his home city—despite my own, within the last two years. Why? Likely because the parts of my life filled with Donald Trump, MAGA, Kardashians, and Kalifornia generally end around 6 p.m. each workday, and often require sage after the fact…
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Baller Alert: Michael Kors Set to Buy Versace for More Than $2 Billion
Milan Fashion Week is now in full swing, but here’s an update we didn’t expect out of Italy: Affordable luxury American designer Michael Kors’ company is reportedly positioned to purchase famed luxury Italian fashion house Versace for more than $2 billion. The move may come as a surprise to many who have watched a resurgence…
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Savage x Stunna Week: Damn It, Fenty! Are We Done Yet?
There’s probably a “hate how much I love you” joke in here somewhere, but at the moment, we’re too busy being annoyed that a mere hour after we finished waxing poetic about Fenty’s newest shade of Stunna Lip Paint (no, really: we were just on the site an hour ago), they’ve debuted another. Captioning an…
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Hot Chocolate: Fenty Beauty 'Unveiled' a New Stunna Lip Paint, and My Life Just Got Made
Fun fact: I am of a generation of women who wore brown lipstick (sans lipliner, in my case) as we came of age. In fact, my signature shade—and maybe yours, too—was L’Oréal’s Colour Riche in Brazil Nut (formerly number 333 but rebranded as 850 in recent years). It was the perfect, creamy caramel-brown—my first experience…
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Get Your Girl: Did Kat Von D’s Beauty Brand Repost a Promo Referencing ‘Hard Work’ and a Cotton Field?
We’re not sure what in the pasty-faced hell someone on makeup mogul and former reality star Kat Von D’s social media team was thinking if and when they reposted an image of a cotton field to promote her Lock-It concealer, but it’s reportedly a real thing that happened—and if so, we have questions. In a…
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Rihanna for President! No, Seriously. Rihanna Has a New Government Job in Barbados
Just the other day, we were using a stream of descriptors to report on multi-hyphenate megastar Rihanna, and we now have another. As reported by People, it was announced Thursday that Rih had accepted the role of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in the government of her native Barbados Real talk? We might use “extraordinary” to…
