black fashion designers
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Society’s Stylish Secret: Designer Ann Lowe Was a Fashion Force Few Knew (Until Now)
In 2003, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston held a special exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy nuptials. Visitors got to see various mementos from the 1953 wedding, considered the social event of the season at the time. A highlight of the exhibit was Bouvier’s…
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Film to Fashion: Wanna Wear Wakanda? So Do We!
Another weekend, another box-office record broken by Marvel’s Black Panther, which scored another $108 million domestically last weekend and is already topping $700 million worldwide. At this point, I think it’s safe to say that we not only want to go to Wakanda, we want to live there. Who wouldn’t? But if there’s one gripe…
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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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BNYFW: Ennyluap Brings Ladylike Style to Fall Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week is typically a flurry of edgy, ultraglamorous presentations from designers we love, daring us to push the envelope—and our imaginations—further. But rarely do the creations we admire on the runway translate to real life. At most, they are inspirational—at least, aspirational. That’s why there was something subtly refreshing about the low-key…
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BNYFW: Your Black New York Fashion Week Calendar
New York Fashion Week is here again, and The Glow Up Black Fashion Week Calendar is your guide to what’s happening daily! I’ll be front and center, bringing you all the news from the world of black fashion designers, models and glam squads. The presentation of the Fall/Winter 2018 collections is an exciting time, a…
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Black Fashion Designers Get Some Long-Overdue Love in New Exhibit
Black style is so prominent that the first word of the couplet is practically unnecessary; very little that’s stylish doesn’t have some black antecedent. On the other hand, black fashion designers? They are some of the other hidden figures on the cultural landscape. That’s what makes “Black Fashion Designers,” the exhibit that runs until May…