fashion
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‘You’ve Inspired Me to Be Fearless’: Zendaya Honors ‘Image Architect’ Law Roach With InStyle’s Stylist of the Year Award
“You are an absolute visionary,” Zendaya told close friend and longtime collaborator Law Roach on Monday night, as she presented his Stylist of the Year honors at the 2019 InStyle Awards. “You have taught me so much about myself, to not give an F about what people think, to be proud of who I am…
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Memoir of NYFW: The Best Moments of NYFW Were the Blackest—but Unfortunately, Our Invites Got Lost in the Mail
As the most recent New York Fashion Week wound down last week, several members of our team here at The Root found ourselves at perhaps the hottest party of the week. In fact, it was figuratively and literally the hottest, as legendary burlesque venue The Box was surprisingly short on air conditioning as it hosted…
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Paying Tribute to a Fashion Pioneer: Remembering Designer Arthur McGee
Here at The Glow Up, we regularly celebrate the current trailblazers in the fashion industry, but less often do we honor the dwindling number of pioneers who broke ground for those trails to be blazed. One of those groundbreakers was designer Arthur McGee, who we recently learned died on July 1 in New York City,…
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Now Would Be an Opportune Time to Add LaVar Ball and His Big Baller Brand to Your List of Thoughts and Prayers
Once upon a 2017, Big Baller Brand was primed to become the next big thing. It had popular sports figures and celebrities like Nipsey Hussle, The Game, and Fox Sports 1’s Shannon Sharpe tripping over themselves to sing its praises; it had infiltrated the vaulted status of the NBA courtesy of its signature ZO2 sneaker,…
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Beyoncé Made So Many Costume Changes in the ‘Spirit’ Video, We Almost Lost Count [Updated]
So far, we’ve counted 12—yes, 12 outfits that Beyoncé reportedly sports in the four minutes and 31 seconds the “Spirit” video runs. That’s gotta be some kind of record. Granted, only 10 of Beyoncé’s reported 12 costume changes made the final cut of the official video for the first single from her Lion King-themed album…
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The Breakthrough: Harlem’s Fashion Row Mentors Designers to Success—and a Lion King Collaboration
Ahead of the July Fourth weekend and the multimedia marathon that was Essence Fest 2019, where we connected with groundbreaking fashion luminaries like Dapper Dan in New Orleans, New York-based incubator Harlem’s Fashion Row (HFR) was doing what it does best: inspiring and empowering the next wave of designers of color. In partnership with Nike,…
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Black Women Invented Style and Essence Fest 2019 Is Proof
It’s no secret that black women invented style. As the daughter of a black woman who stays dressed-down-to-the-ground, I have come to associate black women with elegance, grace and a lot of pizazz. We slay magazine covers and shut down runways, all while becoming fashion icons who have even used style to discuss larger social…
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Dressed in Dreams: Tanisha C. Ford Writes a Love Letter to Fashion—and Black Womanhood
Somebody/anybody sing a black girl’s song/bring her out to know herself…she doesn’t know the sound of her own voice/her infinite beauty… —Ntozake Shange text If you ask me to share my earliest memory of clothing, in spite of the bevy of beautiful dresses my mother delighted in buying for me as a child (which I…
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Grind Like That to Shine Like This: Meek Mill Is Now the Co-Owner of Lids Hats
Meek Mill just got that “Bag of Money,” or as they say: When life imitates art. According to his recent interview with Business Insider, the 32-year-old rapper, born Robert Williams, is officially the co-owner of Lids. “You know, this is my boss year,” he told the publication. “A lot of what I’m doing, I’m trying…
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Kanye West Launches Grant for Young Creatives, YEEZY Alum Named First Recipient
Rapper and revisionist historian Kanye West has launched a grant for young creatives, providing financial assistance and mentorship to up-and-coming designers. According to Vogue, Kanye’s incubator program will provide aspiring creatives in fashion and design access to the studio and eye for talent that gave the world Louis Vuitton’s Virgil Abloh and Fear of God…