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Calling All Black Designers! Harlem Fashion Week Auditions Are Open
Harlem Fashion Week auditions are open for fashion designers who want to show their Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collections at the biannual event this September, covered by top-tier fashion journalists from around the world—including The Glow Up. In February we had the pleasure of being front row for the presentation of the Spring/Summer collections. Fashion celebs like…
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School Daze and Drugstore Love: Get Beyoncé’s Coed-Inspired Coachella Look
After two hours and 24 songs, the queen commonly known as Beyoncé still stepped offstage Saturday night looking as fresh as a member of an HBCU freshman class. How did she do it? While we’re tempted to believe she really does wakes up like that, her glowing, glittery-eyed makeup look was created by longtime makeup…
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Soul on Ice: Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Honors Figure Skating of Harlem
Beautiful black baby girls on ice skates is a sight to behold. Perhaps that’s why Beyoncé just blessed Figure Skating of Harlem, the only organization in America that offers ice skating and academic mentoring to girls of color, with workout gear from her line, Ivy Park. On its website, Ivy Park stated, “We donated bc…
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Are We There Yet? Coachella’s Couture Has Us Fiending for the Heat
Fun fact: It is April 17, 2018, and in New York City, temps aren’t expected to reach 50 degrees. In Chicago? They’ll be lucky to hit the low 40s. So excuse me if I couldn’t help starting to drool while checking out the festivalgoers during the first weekend of Coachella, basking in the glow of…
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Around-the-Way Girl: Meet Adut Akech, Italian Vogue’s Cover Girl Next Door
Fresh for spring! Adut Akech is one of the supermodels on the cover of Italian Vogue’s April “Girls Next Door” issue, shot by the photographer team Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggott. Barely 10 days after Akech’s star turn on the cover of British Vogue, here she is again, letting us know that she’s playing by…
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Want Beychella-Proof Brows? Giselle Soto’s Got the Secret to Great Arches
It takes more than impeccable moves and timing to be ready to perform with Beyoncé “the Kang” Knowles-Carter. To prep for the megastar’s epic appearance at this year’s Coachella festival, several members of her dance team paid a visit to Los Angeles-based brow artist Giselle Soto of Giselle Soto Brows for some precision face-framing work.…
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Closet Case: Fashion Psychologist Dawnn Karen Styles From the Inside Out
On Saturday I woke up to find out, over coffee and the New York Times, that “fashion psychology” is now a thing. Dawnn Karen—a Columbia grad who, in 2012, made history as the first black female psychology professor (and also one of the youngest) at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology—is an academic and…
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Always on Point: Fashion Stylist Dione Davis
Dione Davis is a woman of many talents. Her day job is as the in-house stylist at Tibi, an über-chic, under-the-radar designer collection that’s favored by fashion insiders and C-suite executives. Davis is like many of the brand’s core customers, who tend to be successful women in creative fields: She pivoted into fashion after suffering…
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Beyoncé x Balmain = Best Coachella Homecoming Ever
What happens when the reigning prince of fashion gets a request to dress Queen Bey for her takeover of one of the most famous music festivals in the world? You get some major fashion moments to go along with all of that amazing music. Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, turned heads during Paris Fashion…
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Can We Talk? Viola Davis Speaks of Survival at the Power of Women Luncheon
Viola Davis is known for her moving speeches—whether she’s speaking about social injustice or accepting well-deserved accolades in an industry in which she’s helping to ensure that black women soar. Davis brought the crowd to a standstill at the Women’s March in Los Angeles earlier this year as she recounted her ongoing struggle as a…