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What Black Celebs Are Wearing to NY Fashion Week
From Queen Latifah to Janet Jackson, these celebs are killing it in New York City
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The Glam Looks We Want To See At The Root 100: 2023
There’s still time to join us at Apollo. Not sure what to wear to the big event…? Here’s our lookbook!
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NYFW: Black Celebs Showed up at The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Naomi Campbell, Doja Cat, and Lori Harvey started New York Fashion Week at the iconic show.
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Supreme Models: YouTube, Vogue Launch Docuseries Chronicling History, Impact of Black Supermodels
The first two episodes of the series are available to watch now with new episodes slated to come out every Monday in October.
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Pretty in Pink: Halima Aden Is Essence’s First Cover Star to Wear Hijab
She’s Muslim, an icon of modest fashion, and one of the models of the moment. Now, Halima Aden is also the first model to wear hijab on the cover of Essence, giving us all-pink-everything glamour for the magazine’s January/February 2020 issue, the first in celebration of its 50th(!) year. As the issue illustrates, Aden is…
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'Change the Game': Halima Aden Makes Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue History in a Hijab
Halima Aden has been changing the game since 2016, when she became the first contestant in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant to wear a hijab—and made it to the semifinals. In the years since, the Somali refugee-turned-burgeoning supermodel has been lighting up runways and magazine covers alike, reinforcing the fact that modesty can be glamorous,…
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'My Choice': With a Series of All Black, All Hijabi April Covers, Vogue Arabia Demystifies Muslim Modesty
“I think it’s important to remember that wearing a hijab is a woman’s personal choice. It doesn’t make her any better or worse than another Muslim woman. To me, it symbolizes modesty and gives me a sense of power,” supermodel Halima Aden tells Vogue Arabia. Aden, a groundbreaking Muslim model who has become a well-known…
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Fashion Models Are Changing–and It’s About a Lot More Than Clothes
Is fashion really more inclusive? If you ask Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s first black editor-in-chief, the cover of the magazine’s May issue—featuring nine models “changing the face of fashion”—defines diversity. “Even five years ago—and certainly 10 or 20 years ago—if you were shooting a group cover like this, the girls would not have looked like…
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Somali-American Teen Participates in Pageant Wearing Hijab, Burkini
Halima Aden, 19, became the first Somali American to participate in the Miss Minnesota USA competition, ABC 7 Chicago reports. She competed in the pageant over the weekend in a hijab and a burkini, a bathing suit covering everything but her feet, hands and face. Aden was born in a Kenyan refugee camp and lived…