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FUBU 4 U and Boo: Puma x FUBU Drops
Wait! What? FUBU and Puma are teaming up for a double anniversary celebration, that’s what! All I can say is, get yours while you can: Puma x FUBU is the latest release in Puma’s yearlong 50th-anniversary celebration of the “Suede.” Meanwhile, FUBU, hot in the ’90s, has a proven track record, 25 years later, as…
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Last Night, a DJ Dressed My Life: Inside the Dope Double Life of Sophia Hyacinthe
“I think one thing that’s really important with me is I have no shame,” Sophia Hyacinthe says. She has nothing to be ashamed of. Hyacinthe is one of the hardest-hustling creatives in New York City, crafting a hybrid career out of her two greatest passions: music and fashion. By day, the stylist and CEO of…
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This Is How You Use Your Privilege: How Jessica Chastain Helped Octavia Spencer Earn Her Worth
Golden Globe-winning actress Jessica Chastain is well-known as one of the most vocal women in Hollywood when it comes to demanding equity, insisting that she be paid on par with her male co-stars. As she told Newsweek in 2017: What I do now, when I’m taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness…
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Love Without a (Price) Limit: Love Mary J.’s Look at the SAG Awards? Get It With Black Opal!
It’s no secret that we’re all about Mary J. Blige’s glow up this awards season; in fact, we’re not sure we’ve stanned this hard for her since What’s the 411? The singer and actress has been nominated for Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards, and now a history-making two Oscar nods for…
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3rd Time’s the Charm: Designer Brandon Maxwell Believes in #BlackGirlMagic
How about three delicious scoops of #BlackGirlMagic to sweeten your day? Designer Brandon Maxwell’s newly launched Spring/Summer 2018 advertising campaign, starring British model Jourdan Dunn and her surprise date, is a follow-up to his two previous and equally stunning campaign videos featuring models Riley Montana and Joan Smalls. Gorgeous clothes, perfect bodies and pretty faces…
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Making Hair-Story: This Artist Is Styling Her Insecurities Away
Artist Laetitia Ky has had enough: enough body-shaming, self-doubting and denying the natural beauty all of us possess—no matter what form it takes. The 21-year-old self-proclaimed “Ivorian goddess and polyvalent artist” has taken matters into her own hands—and hair—creating an Instagram full of surrealist imagery that tackles our worst insecurities head-on (pun intended). Using her…
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Desired Extensions Is Changing Lives, One Tress at a Time
Gina Conwell knows hair. You could say that the owner of high-end hair boutique Desired Extensions was born into the beauty industry: Her parents own All-in-1 Beauty Supply, an Atlanta beauty emporium that has served local residents for the past 40 years. Conwell began working in the family business as a sales rep in her…
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Fighting in Style: Fashion Helps Us Do the Right Thing
Fashion has always been a frontline method of communication for me; it’s one of the ways I telegraph my mood, my power and my place in the world. And fashion was one of the many weapons used by women during the 2018 Women’s March, where marchers were clad in everything from baby booties to jackboots.…
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Now They’re Just Trolling Us: An Italian Beauty Company Gets In on the Racist Branding Trend
Fellow black folks, our collective outrage is clearly proving very lucrative because trolls keep trolling, and fashion and beauty companies keep trying it with racially insensitive marketing. Hot on the heels of H&M’s absolutely irresponsible and boycott-inducing use of a black boy to market a sweatshirt proclaiming him the “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle,” Italian…