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Best Foot Forward: Step into Protective Styles this Spring!
We’re all about protective styles when it comes to our hair—but what about our feet? Did you know African-American women are 3 times as likely as other ethnic groups to experience bunions, hammer or overlapping toes and flat feet ? High heels, hard shoes and even sandals can cause or exacerbate all these symptoms and…
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Jackie Aina: YouTube Style Warrior
Beauty vlogger Jackie Aina, 30, is a member of the U.S. Army Reserve and has 2 million YouTube subscribers and counting. Averaging around 600,000 views per post, her funny and frank videos, like “Bougie and Bad on a Budget” and “Edges Slaughtered,” bring the real on the makeup tip, touching on issues of race and…
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London Fashion Designer Duro Olowu Is a Man of Many Muses
Duro Olowu is man who celebrates the creative force of women in the arts like no other fashion designer. After all, he’s married to Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she is arguably the supreme critical eye and ultimate beacon and power broker when it comes to the contemporary work…
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Stephanie Horton Soars as a Fashion Executive, but She Doesn’t Want to Be the Only One at the Top
Stephanie Horton, chief strategy officer for the luxury fashion brand Alexander Wang, will never have it all. Why would a woman as talented and ambitious as Horton settle for that? To date, she’s already held posts as the New York Times’ marketing director for luxury brands, tasked with bringing in new revenue streams for the…
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BNYFW: Xuly Bët Remains Mali’s Best-Kept Fashion Secret
Fashion designer Lamine Kouyaté has always drawn from his birthplace of Mali and all of Africa’s past to create designs for his label, Xuly Bët, that put him well ahead of the fashion pack. I first met Lamine Badian Kouyaté around 1990, when I walked his Paris runway shows. Staged at La Sarmarataine, one of…
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BNYFW: According to Harlem’s Fashion Row, the Future of Black Fashion Is in Your Hands
Fashion may be fleeting in the eyes of some, but not for Brandice Henderson, the founder of Harlem’s Fashion Row, a comprehensive fashion incubator for black fashion-design professionals. If she has her way, the power and impact of African-American contribution to fashion design will be eternal. To that end, Henderson gathered together a powerhouse crew…
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A Read on Our Style: Constance C.R. White Presents How to Slay
Constance C.R. White’s new book, How to Slay: Inspiration From the Kings & Queens of Black Style, is well worth the read. White, an award-winning journalist who has served as editor of the New York Times Style section, Elle, Essence and, most recently, Zinc magazine, has now set her sights on documenting something unquantifiable and…
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#BNYFW: Inside Fashion Designer Samantha Black’s Bey-Line to Success
What happens when a young designer wakes up to find Beyoncé wearing her clothes? Samantha Black, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based designer of ready-to-wear line Sammy B., can tell you: “My phone was blowing up.” Why? While Black was asleep, dreaming up sexy leisurewear worthy of Queen Bey to wear on her private jet, Instagram caught fire.…
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BNYFW: Telfar Global’s Showroom Experiment Starts Today!
Telfar Global rocked New York’s runway last week, and starting today, the collection is on view at New York City’s Century 21 department store near the World Trade Center and available to order. If you can’t make it to the store, you can check out the collection here, post what you like to Instagram and…
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BNYFW: Off-White c/o Jimmy Choo Is a Collaboration to Covet
Virgil Abloh, the postmodern P.T. Barnum of fashion who has turned his distinct point of view into a budding fashion empire, debuted his latest collaboration with Jimmy Choo Tuesday night. Abloh, a protégé of Kanye West’s and a Grammy nominee for his work on Watch the Throne, was propelled to the forefront of fashion via…
