black beauty
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Paris Fashion Week: Ooh La La, Louis Vuitton!
Go, #TeamNatural! Paris Fashion Week ended with natural hair trending strongly on the runways, and Louis Vuitton’s show was no exception. Along with showcasing natural hair, designer Nicholas Ghesquière returned to the house of Louis Vuitton this season after a long absence from the runways and showed his own variation of the primary colors in…
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Paris Fashion Week: Chanel and McQueen Give Us a Contrast in Modern Classics
Chanel is the definition of classic. Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s longtime designer, has kept the label’s image moving by making modern classics out of tweed jackets, quilted leather bags and patent leather cap-toe boots, and by both adding sparkle to fabric and #BlackGirlMagic to the runways. This season, a full-scale enchanted forest played host to a…
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Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent Shows Us the Appeal of All-Black Everything
Seriously sexy suits cut from lush black velvet, sensuous silks, luxurious black leather and the vibrant palette of African wildlife have always been the hallmarks of the famed Parisian house of Yves Saint Laurent—now simply known as Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent’s current designer, Anthony Vaccarello, turned out an almost all-black collection, save for a few…
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Entrepreneurial Ingenue Ariana Pierce Is a Superstar—and Wants to Make You One, Too
Twenty-five-year-old CEO Ariana Pierce is going places in style. Since the age of 13, her love of beauty, business entrepreneurship, wanderlust and a hustle that just won’t quit have made her one to watch. The Glow Up girl caught up with the avid traveler and founder of Superstar Nail Lacquer to find out what inspires…
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‘I Am Mirroring Women’: Viola Davis Gets Real in Porter Edit
It’s Oscar weekend 2018, so it’s no surprise that we’ve been seeing a lot of Viola Davis. The three-time Academy Award nominee, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 2016’s Fences‚ is a regular on the awards circuit and is often called the “black Meryl Streep”—to which she rightly responds, “[then] pay me what…
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Wrap Your Head Around This: Imaan and Iman Cover Vogue Arabia’s Anniversary Issue
I’m in love with Vogue Arabia’s first anniversary cover, which features the legendary Somalian supermodel Iman and this generation’s phenom, Imaan Hammam, a Dutch-born supermodel of Moroccan and Egyptian heritage. Wearing traditional head wraps, cloaked in clouds of Marabou feathers fresh off the couture runway of Saint Laurent, the two wonderful women—both of whom I’m…
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Paris Fashion Week: I Am Woman, Hear Me Dior
Dior makes very pretty clothes that are as easy to wear as they are to understand. I say that because, often, clothes can be pretty but puzzling at the same time. Now, under the direction of designer Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior speaks to women loud and clear. What’s Grazia Chiuri got to say? For one,…
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Love, Italian Style: #BlackGirlMagic at Milan Fashion Week
Black girls have been ruling the runways this Milan Fashion Week (Feb. 21-Feb. 28). Case in point: For the first time since Naomi Campbell’s opening strut back in 1997, Prada tapped a black model to open its fashion show (Jourdan Dunn is the only other black model to be booked by this global powerhouse brand…
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The Bald and the Beautiful: Is There Any Better Time to Take It All Off?
Admit it. Sitting there in the theater, gazing up at the gorgeous Dora Milaje, the thought occurred to you at least once: Could I pull off a bald head? Maybe your answer was an immediate and unequivocal “No,” but if there was even a glimmer of curiosity, let’s dig into it. While women have been…
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#IAmWhatIMakeUp: CoverGirl’s Newest Ad Highlights the Rare Beauty of Vitiligo
CoverGirl’s been doing some great work lately with its “I Am What I Make Up” campaign, adding new talent to its roster, like Ayesha Curry and constant #Fave Issa Rae. But perhaps CoverGirl’s latest ad, featuring model Amy Deanna, who has vitiligo, is the cosmetic company’s freshest yet. In it, CoverGirl takes an unconventional turn…