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Behind the Seams: Are Black Designers All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go?
With the recent runaway (and runway) success of black designers like Virgil Abloh, Olivier Rousteing, LaQuan Smith, Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss—or even Kanye West’s Yeezy—it might be easy to assume we’re experiencing a “post-racial” fashion moment. But as Julee Wilson, fashion and beauty director of Essence magazine, recently wrote for industry site Business of…
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Issa Look! Issa Rae Is Hosting the 2018 CFDA Awards—and We Can’t Wait to See What She’ll Wear
Now, here’s a reason not to be insecure: Constant fave Issa Rae announced this week that she will be hosting the 2018 CFDA Awards. The awards, which will take place June 4, are held annually by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and are the biggest awards in fashion each year, honoring style icons…
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Missing in Action: Black Designers
Here comes New York Fashion Week, again. Everything is about to change—or so it seems—as designers present fashion shows featuring clothes generally intended to break the rules. But one thing rarely, if ever, seems to change, and that’s the absence of black designers occupying top spots in the fashion industry. Freelance designer and journalist Kibwe…