black models
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Life of a Working Model: The Secret to Liris Crosse’s Longevity Is ‘Making It Work’
The 16th season of Project Runway marked a major milestone: For the first time, fuller-figured models were featured alongside the typical high-fashion body types on the show’s weekly runway. One of those models was Liris Crosse, who would ultimately become the winner of the franchise’s modeling competition after slaying the runway week after week, often…
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The French Connection: The Cannes Film Festival Closes on a High Note
While several of the entertainment industry’s elite flocked to England on Saturday to celebrate the royal wedding, other members of Hollywood royalty concluded their takeover of the French Riviera for the closing events of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. This year’s festival had a strong streak of activist energy, marked by multiple festival-endorsed demonstrations and…
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Debra Shaw Gets Her 1st Vogue Cover at 41
We’ve seen her. We know her. We love her. We just don’t know her name—it’s Debra Shaw. We don’t know why it’s taken so long for her to land the cover of Vogue, but what we do know is that we love Debra Shaw’s May cover of Vogue Portugal. Why? Because at 41 years old,…
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Yes, You Can Go Home Again: Model Adwoa Aboah Brings Burberry to Ghana
My mother and I recently decided to do DNA kits together in honor of Mother’s Day. (Please don’t @ me with warnings about how our information will be used; we’re grown, neither of us is a serial killer, and genealogy searches have taken us only so far.) Since we’re decidedly African American and slavery was…
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Slick With It: Model Slick Woods Talks Money Moves in May’s Glamour Magazine
I’m personally convinced that quiet as it’s kept, the baddest of the baddies must hail from Minneapolis. After all, it’s the birthplace of the Purple One, Yara Shahidi, history-making state Rep. Ilhan Omar, yours truly and the face of Fenty Beauty—no, the other one—model Slick Woods (I mean, that moniker alone sounds like the title…
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Must-See TV: A Day in the Life of Naomi Campbell Is As Glamorous as You Think
We will never not love Naomi Campbell. She can throw a phone or a fantastic party, and we’ll just laugh it off and love her just the same. By turns, she’s a black Barbie come to life and also our fabulous play-cousin-in-our-head from across the pond whose impossibly glamorous life is the stuff fashion-obsessed dreams…
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Around-the-Way Girl: Meet Adut Akech, Italian Vogue’s Cover Girl Next Door
Fresh for spring! Adut Akech is one of the supermodels on the cover of Italian Vogue’s April “Girls Next Door” issue, shot by the photographer team Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggott. Barely 10 days after Akech’s star turn on the cover of British Vogue, here she is again, letting us know that she’s playing by…
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Dolce & Gabbana Conquers the Met Opera House
Never before has New York City’s Metropolitan Opera played host to a fashion show. Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian fashion house known for sparkling excess, were the first ever to have the honor Sunday night in Manhattan, as part of its four-day Alta Moda bespoke men’s and women’s haute couture runway and jewelry presentations. Dolce…
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I Am Legend: Iman Talks Age and Diversity in April’s Harper’s Bazaar
If you pick up this month’s Harper’s Bazaar—the annual “Fabulous at Every Age” issue—you’ll see Jennifer Lopez on the cover, still stunning us with her beauty (and incredible body) at a flawless 48. But inside is a true revelation: Seemingly ageless icon Iman is featured in a multipage spread, interviewed by another age-defying beauty, Taraji…
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Lagos Fashion Week: Emmy Kasbit Wins the Prize
The Glow Up congratulates Nigerian fashion designer Emmanuel Okoro of Emmy Kasbit on his award-winning collection presented at 2018 Lagos Fashion Week, which concluded Sunday night. Lagos Fashion Week is an annual showcase in Nigeria for African designers, underwritten by Heineken. Twelve designers showed at the three-day event, providing a global showcase and the chance…