diversity in fashion
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New and Next: Your Bimonthly Black Magazine Cover Roundup Is Here!
What’s this, you ask? Oh, just another crop of black girl magical magazine covers for fall. In fact, there have been so many since September’s record-breaking number that we’ve decided it’s best to just round them up twice monthly, to keep you up to date on who’s covering us. Our last check-in was a mere…
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RuPaul Is the Queen, Naomi a Beheader: Pirelli’s 2018 Calendar Envisions an All-Black Alice in Wonderland
Pirelli, the Milan-based tire company, has taken an enduring, mystical story of Alice in Wonderland and blackened it up for its annual calendar. The results? Stunning. In its 45th iteration, the Pirelli annual calendar features an all-black cast to represent photographer Tim Walker’s vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Styled by British Vogue Editor Edward…
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Did Vogue Use a Brown-Paper-Bag Test for Its New Group Cover?
For those unfamiliar, the “paper-bag test” was a tactic used by certain African-American social organizations, fraternities and even churches to keep dark-skinned people out. The saying is that if you were darker than a brown paper bag, then you had no place in said organization. As has been the case for some time, lighter skin…
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Clutch the Pearls: Will Gucci’s New Campaign Feature Only Black Models?
Gucci’s Instagram blew up Friday after it showed its #GucciPreFall17 campaign and a series of “audition” videos filled with all black faces. The rare-air fashion house featured six black models—all with natural hair— answering quirky questions and busting dance moves on its colorful IG page. Time reports that the casting agency featured in the videos…