fashion
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Rodarte: Where Black Beauty Blooms This Season
Women who inspire us? Well, these women most certainly do! We’re thanking Rodarte—the two-sister design team from Los Angeles—for bringing us these stunning images of strong, smart, stellar women to sweep us into spring style. Just in time for fashion week, their 2018 Fall-Winter portrait series features Tessa Thompson, star of HBO’s Westworld; Black Panther’s Danai…
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Unpopular Opinion: Kanye’s Kim Worship Has Gone Too Far to Be Fashionable
(Editor’s Update: Apparently, this opinion isn’t as unpopular as first thought.) Today in “Baby, what is you doin’?” news: Kanye, GET OUT of here with this Yeezy season 6 campaign! We’re all for folks being their mate’s biggest cheerleaders, but this campaign is taking “muse” to sycophant levels. The “Who wore it best?” series of…
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Last Night, a DJ Dressed My Life: Inside the Dope Double Life of Sophia Hyacinthe
“I think one thing that’s really important with me is I have no shame,” Sophia Hyacinthe says. She has nothing to be ashamed of. Hyacinthe is one of the hardest-hustling creatives in New York City, crafting a hybrid career out of her two greatest passions: music and fashion. By day, the stylist and CEO of…
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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…
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H&M Hires ‘Diversity Leader’ After Global Backlash to the Racist Monkey Hoodie
Fashion retailer H&M, more than a week after a photo of a black boy in a “coolest monkey in the jungle” hoodie caused an international backlash, announced Wednesday that the company has appointed a diversity leader. The Swedish-based company announced its decision on its Facebook page: The recent incident was entirely unintentional, but it demonstrates…
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The House of Versace: Long May It Reign
The trailer for Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, debuting on FX on Wednesday, ironically sparked a flood of gorgeous memories for me about working with Versace. This, despite the fact that the Versace family has issued a press release calling the series—based on Vanity Fair correspondent Maureen Orth’s book Vulgar Favors—“a…
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A Closetful of Bad Decisions: Why H&M’s Misstep Is More Than a Poor Marketing Choice
Maybe we should’ve added “racist marketing at the expense of African Americans” to our list of things to leave in 2017, because H&M kicked off the new year by inciting mass rage Sunday, when an image on its website featured an African-American child model in a sweatshirt labeled “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle.” You would…
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Beyond Basic Black: Models Make Monochromatic Dressing Work—and You Can, Too
The hottest chicks in the fashion game can tell you: What’s really cool this season is monochromatic dressing. It’s the kind of easy chic that makes a woman look like she’s arrived not only in style but in life. But while head-to-toe color looks automatically lengthening, it’s not just a look made for models! Here’s…
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The Glow Up Gaze: Seynabou Cissé Is the Real-Talking ‘Real Woman’ We’ve Been Waiting For
Model Seynabou Cissé—Seyna, for short—quietly rocked our worlds when she visited our offices in her signature unapologetic, pared-down, woman-conquers-menswear style. We fell in love at first sight with the 23-year old Senegalese JAG Model and her tailored separates, naturally chic cadence and glowing—SO GLOWING—skin. But mostly, we fell for her straight-talking style—is there anything more…
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First Do No Harm: Designer and CEO Natalia Allen Is Creating ‘Victimless Fashion’
Natalia Allen is the fashion designer of the future. CEO of her eponymous line, she’s developed a robotic system for producing what she’s termed “victimless fashion.” It’s a journey that gained momentum when she graduated from Parsons School of Design in 2004 with the Designer of the Year Award—as did designer Marc Jacobs before her.…