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Nappily Ever After: H&M Issues Statement About Black Girl’s ‘Natural’ Hair, No Apologies This Time
So… H&M has found itself the subject of another b(l)acklash. The fast-fashion retailer got called out again for their questionable choices in reflecting black kid magic. But this time they are not folding up like the cheap suits they shill out. On Friday, the Stockholm-based clothing company issued a statement on the firestorm that ignited…
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Ahead of the Curve: What Every Lingerie Brand Can Learn From Rihanna's Vision for Savage x Fenty
“I’m looking for unique characteristics in people that aren’t usually highlighted in the world of fashion, as it pertains to lingerie and ‘sexy’…what society sees [as] sexy,” says Rihanna within the first minute of her Savage x Fenty Show mini-doc, now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video. Aside from simply showing the multimedia, music and dance-heavy…
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Meet Ryan Michelle Bathe: Wife, Mother and Leading Lady of First Wives Club
Allow us to introduce you to Ryan Michelle Bathe. She’s a mother of two precious boys, a wife to one of Hollywood’s finest (a man who is apparently committed to making us all cry), a daughter, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (oo-oop!), and the list goes on and on. But what you…
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Our Lives, Our Style: Acclaimed Lifestyle Brand AphroChic Launches a Magazine for Us, by Us
They’ve been lauded by Elle Decor, launched a web series with HGTV, spoken at Harvard, published a book, designed homes for celebs, developed their own luxury home furnishings line, and are respected by some of the biggest names in interior design. Now, Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason, the husband-and-wife design team behind the popular lifestyle…
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Will the Savage x Fenty Show Be the Rihanna Musical Extravaganza We've Been Thirsting For?
Pulsating beats. Undulating bodies. Scantily-clad swag under a spectrum of colorful lights. Is it a music video? A concert appearance? Rihanna’s recent text-filled (and highly controversial) trip to see Slave Play on Broadway? No, it’s a trailer for the megastar’s top-secret Savage x Fenty Fall-Winter presentation, staged at Brooklyn’s Barclay Center during New York Fashion…
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Haute Girl Autumn? A Few of Our Faves Sizzle on This Season’s Covers
C’mon, melanin! The crush of New York Fashion Week coincided with the latest batch of black girl magical covers headed to newsstands as fall arrives this weekend, so we’re just catching up on the hauteness of October’s covers, several of which star some of our favorite faces. Our consensus? Hot Girl Summer is clearly a…
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‘Fendi Prints On’: Not-So-Retired Rapper Nicki Minaj Reveals 127-Piece Collaboration With Fendi
She may be retiring from music—or maybe (likely) not—but Nicki Minaj is still at work, giving first looks at a new collection with Fendi. She initially teased the collaboration in July, and now tells Elle that her fans “are going to be really surprised when they see that I did think of things for them.…
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Meet the New Head of Planned Parenthood: Alexis McGill Johnson Is a Seasoned Soldier in the War for Women’s Reproductive Health
It was mid-August, and just weeks into her new job as acting president/CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Alexis McGill Johnson was out front, defending the organization from attack. On that day, McGill Johnson said that Planned Parenthood would be pulling out of the Title X program,…
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Sashay, Beauté: RuPaul Teams Up With Makeup Maven Mally Roncal for a New Beauty Collab
The icon who brought drag mainstream is now giving us a bit of the magic to bring home. Twenty-five years after he launched the philanthropic Viva Glam collection with MAC, RuPaul is once again lending his glamour to a beauty brand; this time with friend and celebrity makeup artist Mally Roncal. Roncal is perhaps best…