black models
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A Fenty Muse in Full Bloom: Slick Woods Makes a Big Reveal on the Cover of Elle UK
If you’re a fan and follower of Fenty Beauty favorite Slick Woods, you likely already knew that she had big news in store, but on the cover of Elle UK’s September issue the beaming model proudly reveals that she’s also a mother-to-be. Woods kicked off July with a sweet poolside reveal of her growing belly…
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She Got That Glow: Anok Yai Is the Newest Face of Estée Lauder
Barely a week ago, we were applauding the stratospheric rise of model Anok Yai, whose career famously began when the then-college sophomore was photographed by a street-style photographer at Howard University’s 2017 Homecoming celebration. In the months since, Yai has signed with one of the biggest agencies in the world (Next Models), appeared in British…
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Sports Illustrated's Latest Show Was Inclusive of Everyone—Or Was It?
Sports Illustrated’s presentation at 2018 Miami Swim Week aimed to give all women a chance to be models, whether they had a prosthetic leg or were a breastfeeding mother. As a result, there were many unexpected appearances on the SI runway on Sunday after Sports Illustrated held its first ever in-person open casting call, which…
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Feeling the Love: Naomi Campbell and Adwoa Aboah Cover Love's 10th Anniversary Issue
And we have lift-off! Fashion magazine Love decided to celebrate its 10th anniversary with two very special cover stars: Naomi Campbell and Adwoa Aboah. The 26-year-old Aboah and 48-year-old Campbell, both black Brits, represent two generations of supermodels—and the decade that the biannual magazine has been hitting newsstands. The cover, photographed by Mert Alas and…
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Black Model on Vogue's IG Responds to Troll Who Complained About Too Many 'Ghetto People'
Apparently, Vogue Magazine’s readers and followers are all white, so when they see black women being represented, they immediately wonder why “ghetto people” are being shown because it’s “not like vogue at all.” Maybe that’s why, when model Salem Mitchell was featured on Vogue’s Instagram page relaxing on the beach in a red one-piece and…
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Lookbook: The Glow Up's Guide to Fall-Winter Paris Haute Couture Week 2018-2019
If we could’ve been anywhere this past week to escape the summer heat (and increasingly hypocritical patriotism here in the States), it would’ve been Fall-Winter Haute Couture Week in Paris. From July 1st through the 5th, the City of Lights once again played host to fashion’s greatest connoisseurs (when does it not?) as 34 designers…
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She Slays! Adut Akech Bior Shuts Down Paris Couture Week
It’s Fall-Winter Couture Week in Paris, which means designers are showcasing their most elaborate custom-made looks for the clamoring fashion crowd. And for legendary French fashion house Chanel, the annual runway event always ends the same way: with a bride. This year, that bride was Sudanese (by way of Australia) model Adut Akech Bior, handpicked…
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#WCW: Adwoa Aboah Is Candid, Cool, Chic and Changing the Fashion Game
A luxury hotel room, a closet full of Chanel and a party full of England’s fashion elite sounds like the makings of a pretty good evening by any measure, but as Vogue spends an afternoon getting ready with model-of-the-moment Adwoa Aboah, it’s a study in contemporary cool. The 2017 British Fashion Awards Model of the…
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Virgil Abloh’s 1st Louis Vuitton Show in Paris Showed Why He’s the ‘King of Cool’
“I made a conscious decision that I wasn’t just going to be a consumer; that at least one of us [African Americans] would appear at the end of a Parisian runway,” Virgil Abloh told British Vogue in March 2018 when his official appointment to the venerable house of Louis Vuitton was announced. This Thursday in…
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We’re Rooting for Everybody Black: Who Will Win on Fashion’s Biggest Night?
On Monday, fashion’s best and brightest will gather at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City to celebrate the 37th annual Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards. Dubbed the “Oscars of Fashion,” the CFDAs are the highest honors awarded in the American fashion industry, recognizing outstanding achievements in design, journalism, personal style and positive…