harlem fashion
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Legacy, Legacy, Legacy: What Best Befits a Civil Rights Icon?
As we wrap up the biannual phenomenon known as New York Fashion Week, we find ourselves overwhelmed by the amount of new fashion and trends we saw on the runways, forecasting what is to come in Fall/Winter 2018. But since we here at The Glow Up sit at the intersection of Fashion Week and Black…
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BNYFW: Your Black New York Fashion Week Calendar
New York Fashion Week is here again, and The Glow Up Black Fashion Week Calendar is your guide to what’s happening daily! I’ll be front and center, bringing you all the news from the world of black fashion designers, models and glam squads. The presentation of the Fall/Winter 2018 collections is an exciting time, a…
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Full Circle and Forward: The Renaissance of Dapper Dan
Gazing down from a billboard overlooking 125th Street (aka Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) in Harlem, “Dapper Dan”—born Daniel Day—appears every bit what his longtime moniker suggests. Adjusting the lapel of his impeccably tailored suit, he looks like a man who has arrived—though he never left the New York City neighborhood he called home. His…