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Fashion Week Goes the Law-School Route
(The Root) — It could have had a clever campy name, such as “Fashion Brief” or “Legal Runway,” but Fordham University Law School’s Fashion Law Institute simply billed its event last week during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week as a fashion presentation. The affair was held at the Box in New York’s Lincoln Center to commemorate FLI’s…
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'Versailles '73': A True Fashion Statement
(The Root) — Deborah Riley Draper hadn’t heard of the iconic fashion show at Versailles in 1973 — when five American designers and five French designers showed their wares in a fashion competition of sorts — until she heard an NPR report about a luncheon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the models who…
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Blogging While Black: The Fashion Week Edition
In the fashion world, bloggers are the new black. During Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York this past week, many of the most popular bloggers claim front-row seats next to seasoned fashion editors and writers who are not, shall we say, feeling the love. African Americans’ passionate affair with fashion is legendary and as…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
