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Smile! This Valentine’s Day, Yvonne Orji Is All the Single Ladies
“Hey, girl, why don’t you smile?” If you’re a woman, there’s a likelihood you’ve heard this sometime in your life—or several times already this week. But this Valentine’s Day, one of our #Faves, comedian and Insecure star Yvonne Orji, reminds us that smiling isn’t the worst thing we can do, even if we don’t think…
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#WCW: The Women of Wakanda Have Our Hearts!
Y’all. We are now less than 48 hours out from what will undoubtedly be the greatest cinematic triumph since The Wiz (yes, all films), and it is safe to say that along with the flu, Wakanda fever has officially hit The Root’s office this February. Among our staff, outfits were purchased even before tickets, and…
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Spread Love: Jamaican-American Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian Loves the Babies
Today’s a day we celebrate love—typically romantic love, but since what the world needs now is most definitely more love, sweet love, in general, today we’re celebrating all kinds of love: love of self, love of culture, love of country and love for our legacy. That’s why this week’s #WomanCrushWednesday is Jamaican-American Olympic bobsled pilot…
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NYFW: Cushnie et Ochs Celebrates a Decade of Design
What does a decade of design look like? If you’re the female design duo Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs—better known as Cushnie et Ochs—it looks like modern femininity: “We like to let a woman’s most feminine side shine. Her most beautiful, most alluring and seductive side,” their website proclaims. To do this, the designers have…
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Samba and Misogynoir: Will 2018 Be the Last Year of Blackface in Brazil’s Carnival?
The United States isn’t the only country with a bad case of “blackface.” Brazil has its own version of blackface, and it is most often on display during Carnival, when some revelers sometimes dress up as “Nega Maluca,” translated as “crazy black woman” in Portuguese. During this year’s Carnival in Brazil, blackface made an appearance…
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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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Is Ulta Repackaging and Reselling Used Makeup to Consumers? A New Lawsuit Says Yes
A new lawsuit filed in Chicago last week alleges that beauty giant Ulta has been repackaging and reselling used makeup to its unsuspecting customers for years. Attorney Tom Zimmerman told ABC7, “It is widespread knowledge that this practice has been occurring at Ulta for years.” Zimmerman represents Meghan Devries, a Chicago woman who works in…
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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…
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BNYFW: Romeo Hunte Turns It Up
Twenty-nine beautiful black models slayed every step of Romeo Hunte’s Fall/Winter 2018 runway. How could they not? The label cuts some of the best outerwear in the business. When you throw shearling jackets, fox-fur chubbies, trenches tiled with fur patchwork, PVC-detailed bombers and reversible raincoats over Black Panther-inspired Speedo wetsuits, finished off with fresh pairs…