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Famously Fly: Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 Includes Some of Our Most Fashionable Faves!
You’ve seen them on screen, on the red carpet and often, right here on The Glow Up. And now, just in time for New York Fashion Week, several of our favorite fashionable celebs have landed on Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 list! And because we’re always rooting for everybody black (it’s our job, as well…
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Behind the Seams: Do You Know the Black Female-Focused Design Story of Nike’s HFR x LeBron 16?
Strength. Loyalty. Dignity. Courage. Those are the four words that adorn the soles of the new HFR x LeBron 16 sneaker by Nike, based on the words of King James himself. Inspired by the women in his life, Lebron James’ first women’s basketball shoe was both female-focused and predominantly female-designed: to reenvision the LeBron 16…
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What Does $750,000 Worth of Shirts Look Like? Tisha Campbell-Martin Says It Looks Like Alimony
Twenty years of marriage, two children … and $750,000 worth of shirts. That’s what Martin star Tisha Campbell-Martin says entitles her to spousal support from estranged husband Duane Martin, after learning that her soon-to-be ex is the owner of more than 500 shirts costing approximately $1,500 each. You do the math—and then, imagine the closet…
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Time Traveling: Tom Ford Kicks Off NYFW Spring-Summer 2019 With Retro-Inspired Glamour
Tom Ford has always had a flair for the darkly dramatic—the type of striking statements that get shoutouts by Jay-Z or Oscar nominations (for each of two films, so far). From his 1996 reinvention of Gucci (which spawned the memorable white cutout dress in Toni Braxton’s “Unbreak My Heart” video) through launching his own label,…
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Welcome Back to New York Fashion Week—Where Are All the Black People?
Welcome back to New York Fashion Week! It’s always slightly strange to be falling in love with clothes we won’t be able to wear for another six months, but here we are again, forecasting trends for Spring and Summer 2019. But before you spend the next week wondering where all the black designers are, we…
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Film Noir: Issa Rae Gets Dramatic for Glamour's October Issue—and Claps Back at Melania's Camp
Issa Rae is happy—and why shouldn’t she be? She’s the creator and star of a hit show in its third season, in the process of creating several more projects, has a contract with CoverGirl and has quickly become a bona fide fashion star in her own right. (CFDA Awards, anyone?) And now, she’s the star of…
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LeBron Loves the Ladies: King James Pays Tribute to Black Women and Girls at Harlem's Fashion Row
His nickname is “King James,” but LeBron James was all about elevating black queens on Tuesday night, as he accepted the Icon 360 Award at the Harlem’s Fashion Row gala in New York City. “I was just thinking about the African American woman,” he began. “There was a very easy example of why I think…
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Made for Now: Janet Jackson's Beauty Is Eternal on October's InStyle
They said it wouldn’t last, we had to prove them wrong: Fresh off the historic wave of melanated magnificence on September covers around the world, a new crop of black beauties of is greeting us for October, as epitomized by Janet Jackson on the cover of InStyle magazine’s Beauty Issue. The internet may currently be…
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Aspiring to the A-List? Viola Davis Talks Inclusion, Inequities and Acting in Her Natural Hair
It’s strange to consider a world in which Viola Davis isn’t considered “A-list.” The woman already has a star on the Walk of Fame and is just one Grammy away from being achieving “EGOT” status (surely, someone’s got an audiobook that could use her talents, no?). So, when a new interview with the star in…