black supermodels
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Changing Colors: For Fall, Fashion Continues to Celebrate Black Beauty
It wasn’t just a phase. After years of being relegated to the inner pages and being told that covers featuring black women don’t sell, the fashion industry finally seems to be taking the plunge into parity, featuring more and more black women on its covers. In the past week alone, we’ve featured Kerry Washington covering…
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The Shade: Cut Out the Hard Contour and Get Into Some Subtle Sculpting with Joan Smalls
If there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that most of us aren’t (and will never be) blessed with the naturally-chiseled features of Puerto Rican goddess Joan Smalls. The modeling phenom was blessed with high cheekbones and full lips and brows—the type of features your Insta-faves are trying to recreate with exaggerated pencil-and-contouring techniques.…
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This Is How We Do It: Essence's September Issue—Starring Naomi!—Is a Study in Black Excellence
Leave it to Essence to remind us what black excellence looks like on both sides of the camera. Making their contribution to a season of intense black girl magic—where we are covering a full 50 percent of the 2018 fall fashion issues—the legendary black women’s magazine shows us exactly how excellent a product by a…
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Model Behavior: How Naomi Campbell Shut Down Pregnancy Rumors With a Single Look
Children, come gather ’round for a much-needed lesson in fact-checking, presented by none other than Mother Naomi of House Campbell. We mean that figuratively, of course—but you wouldn’t know it from the rumors that were swirling on Tuesday morning, when Harper’s Bazaar, amongst other publications, suggested that the supermodel might be expecting a child with…
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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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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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#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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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…
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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…