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The Glow Up 50: For the Love of Dap
It’s no small thing to have an award named in your honor, but the designer known as Dapper Dan is no small entity—in fact, he’s larger than life. The journalist turned self-taught couturier born Daniel Day is the epitome of a renaissance man, staging his own reinvention more than once in his 76 years on…
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The Glow Up 50: Celebrating Icons Ruth E. Carter and Bethann Hardison
Black style is legendary, and as we celebrate the second year of The Glow Up 50, we’d be remiss not to acknowledge the living legends in our midst. This year, Dame Pat McGrath was honored with our annual Dap Award (so named for the iconic Dapper Dan), but she was in great company, as our…
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The Glow Up 50: The Dap Award
She’s a maestro. She’s a maven. She’s a mutha. For the legions of who worship at the gilded and glittered altar of Pat McGrath, she is indeed the mother of makeup. Already widely recognized as “the most influential makeup artist in the world,” as 2021 began, McGrath’s boundless creativity, coupled with the success of her…
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The Funk Boutique: Building Legacies in Fashion and Beauty
Well before she became a world-renowned actress, something was taken from the woman we’ve long known as “Thandie Newton”––the “W” in her name. It started when she was in school and continued when her name was misprinted in the credits of her debut role, Flirtation; now, she’s reclaimed it. “That’s my name. It’s always been…
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And the SAG Award for Best Dressed Goes to…All These Men in Colored Suits
On Sunday night, stars across TV and film all gathered around their Zoom screens to attend the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Similar to the ceremonies that have come before it, this year’s SAG Awards saw some expected wins and disappointing upsets. But as you could probably infer from the headline—we’re not here to…
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Guess What? The Telfar Tribe Was Never Going to Allow Guess to Appropriate the Designer's Iconic Bag
If you’re in the market, no doubt you dipped on over to Telfar Global’s site today to cop one of the designer’s coveted shopping bags though his “Bag Security II” program. After all, it’s one of the rare opportunities to pre-order the cult-favorite tote, circumventing the typical grab-one-while-they-last color-coded drops that typically result in disappointment,…
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Welcome to The Funk Boutique, Your Weekly Window Shop for Fashion and Beauty Drops
Here at The Root, we celebrate Black excellence of all kinds—and so much of that excellence is embodied in the ways we influence and interpret fashion and beauty. Since The Glow Up’s founding, we’ve done deep dives on fashion and beauty in addition to a range of content centering the issues of Black women and…
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Dripped Up, Iced Down: Adidas Reveals New ‘Icy Park Collection’ From Beyoncé
Not only is “I dream it, I work hard, I grind ‘til I own it” an inspiring line from Beyoncé‘s “Formation,” it’s also the exact game plan I plan on enforcing in order to finally obtain the latest drop in her Adidas x Ivy Park collection. (To be honest, I’m getting real sick and tired…
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'Vote Loud,' Make Change: Gucci Changemakers Partners With Michelle Obama's When We All Vote
If nothing else, our past two election cycles have made abundantly clear that in order to truly make substantive change in America, perhaps the most crucial demographics we need to engage in our political process is young and marginalized voters—specifically, BIPOC voters ages 18-24. After all, as 24-year-old Zendaya reminded us while making history as…
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Fashioning the Future: Gucci Celebrates Its 1st Class of Changemaker Scholars
If the past few weeks have taught us anything, it’s the difference between promises and platitudes, and actions and accountability. Words of support are empty without effort and quantifiable results, and while multitudes of people are becoming more comfortable with phrases like “Black Lives Matter” all we’ve ever been asking is that they act like…