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Doing the Work: Ava DuVernay and Yara Shahidi Are Among Glamour's 2019 Women of the Year Honorees
A passion for justice unites the black and brown women honored by Glamour as their 2019 Women of the Year, as Ava DuVernay and Yara Shahidi join the Women of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) on a list that includes Megan Rapinoe, Charlize Theron, Margaret Atwood, Tory Burch, and…
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#AskLupita: Last Night, Lupita Nyong'o Talked Us, Colorism and Sulwe With Twitter
Lupita Nyong’o made a name for herself by not using her remarkable acting talent, but by helping to shift the Hollywood beauty paradigm, as she conquered countless red carpets with her dark skin, natural hair, and daring style. And on Oct. 15, after three years of work, Nyong’o published Sulwe, a children’s book aimed at…
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Lamar Odom Says He Dumped Taraji for Khloe. We’d Heard Things Went Down a Bit Differently
Didn’t we almost have it all? When love was all we had worth giving? Those were the questions many were left asking after hearing that Lamar Odom ended his relationship with Taraji P. Henson to pursue an ultimately doomed one with Khloe Kardashian in 2009 (h/t Buzzfeed). While appearing on TV One’s Uncensored, Odom calls…
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Megan Thee Stallion Risked Her Life Doing Jordyn Woods’ Hair—and May Need a New Makeup Artist
Ever wondered what it’d be like to be Megan Thee Stallion for a day? Well, aside from suddenly possessing bionic knees, 24 hours in the life of the originator of “Hot Girl Summer” apparently involves Jordyn Woods, the Compton Cowboys, lots of hair-curling—and obviously, copious amounts of “hot girl shit”—at least, when Vogue’s cameras are…
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'Meghan Markle Is a Witch': Cosplaying 'Pot & Kettle,' Candace Owens and Wendy Williams Dismiss the Duchess of Sussex
Here’s a fun fact: Did you know Candace Owens recently married into British nobility? Specifically, the alleged creator of “Blexit” wed the hedge-funder son of a baron and parliamentarian in late August—at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Va., no less. While barons are the lowest order of British noble, it’s probably safe to say Owens is…
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‘You’ve Inspired Me to Be Fearless’: Zendaya Honors ‘Image Architect’ Law Roach With InStyle’s Stylist of the Year Award
“You are an absolute visionary,” Zendaya told close friend and longtime collaborator Law Roach on Monday night, as she presented his Stylist of the Year honors at the 2019 InStyle Awards. “You have taught me so much about myself, to not give an F about what people think, to be proud of who I am…
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Is Louis Vuitton the Next Brand to Boycott? LVMH's Photo-Op With Trump Has the Fashion Industry Seeing Red
The luxury fashion conglomerate that recently blessed the world with Rihanna’s Fenty Maison has become associated with a far less appealing personality. Many in the fashion industry are outraged at the seemingly unholy alliance between LVMH and Donald Trump, who, amid any number of crises in the world and within his administration, was on hand…
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Birchbox Gets Unbothered: A Popular Subscription Box Gets a ‘For Us, By Us’ Curation
It’s not news that black women are the beauty and hair care market’s biggest spenders; as Nielsen research famously revealed in 2017, black women spend approximately nine times more on beauty and hair care than our white counterparts. And yet, until recently, we have been persistently ignored and marginalized by the same market we help…
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Let Michelle Obama’s #SelfCareSunday Be the Motivation You Need This Monday
I don’t know about you, but my Mondays hit me hard. I don’t know if it’s the 6:30 a.m. start time (CST) or the result of my body clock being thrown off by sleeping most of the preceding weekend, but 9 times out of 10, I feel like I’m pushing a boulder uphill through the…
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Fleurotica: Inspiration—and Education—Bloom in Chicago With a Floral-Fueled Fashion Show
Anyone who thinks the most imaginative looks on the runway happen during Fashion Week has clearly never been to Fleurotica, the incredible merging of floral and fashion design that took place at Chicago’s Garfield Park Conservatory on Friday night. Garnering my first invitation to the 11-year-old event this year, I wasn’t quite sure what to…
