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In an Unconventional Milan Fashion Week, Versace Finally Brings Full-Figured Models to Its Runway
Much has changed since the last Milan Fashion Week in February, but while much of the fashion world has adapted to our socially-distanced reality by going virtual, Versace chose to make another major change to its traditional format: For the first time in the luxury house’s 42-year-old history, plus-sized models walked the runway of its…
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Real Is the New Black: Samira Wiley Is a Role Model for Authenticity
“When I grew up, it was during a time when most people [in ads] weren’t as dark as me,” Samira Wiley tells Glamour in their February issue. “You definitely didn’t see natural hair. It was very homogeneous.” Following her successes on not one, but two hit shows in the past six years (Orange Is the…
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The 2018 Victoria's Secret Show Was Sunday. We Didn't Care Enough to Watch (and We're Not Alone)
Some notable things happened during the first weekend in December: Beyoncé and Jay-Z headlined the Global Citizen Festival in South Africa; Versace showed its pre-Fall collection in New York City; and in India, Priyanka Chopra married Nick Jonas in a multi-day ceremony that may have actually outdone friend Meghan Markle’s royal nuptials. And yet, there…
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She Doesn't Have the Range: How Victoria's Secret Became Its Own Worst Enemy
We’re not sure there’s a more delicate way to put this, but the world’s best known lingerie brand has really been showing its ass lately, all in an attempt to continue restricting the talent in its annual lingerie show—the largest in the world—to exclusively straight-sized, able-bodied, cis models. While we’ve applauded the label in the…
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New and Next: Your Bimonthly Black Magazine Cover Roundup Is Here!
What’s this, you ask? Oh, just another crop of black girl magical magazine covers for fall. In fact, there have been so many since September’s record-breaking number that we’ve decided it’s best to just round them up twice monthly, to keep you up to date on who’s covering us. Our last check-in was a mere…
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Maxwell’s Latest Video Is a Meditation on Black Beauty
Singer-songwriter Maxwell has long been known for making beautiful songs. But his recently released ballad, “Shame,” also brings us a bevy of beautiful people, as the artist recruited some of the world’s most buzzed-about black models for his latest video, directed by writing/directing duo Bush and Renz, with Sissi Johnson as creative director. With subtle…
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X-Rated: After a Big Buildup, Savage x Fenty Closes New York Fashion Week with an All-Inclusive Show
Never let it be said that Rihanna doesn’t know how to create a buzz. For the final event of New York Fashion Week, the multitalented bad gal knew Savage x Fenty’s Fall-Winter presentation had to shut it down; which she did in inimitable, all-inclusive fashion. Not that we didn’t know ferocity was in store—what else…
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VS Show 2018: The World's Largest Lingerie Runway Event Keeps That Same Energy of Diversity
They’ve still yet to cast any fuller-figured bodies, but Victoria’s Secret is at least keeping its annual runway show colorful, casting a new crop of melanated models for its 2018 event in November, which will be televised worldwide. This year, 14 of the beauties walking the show will be black; less than last year’s 18—but…
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Beauty Is Beauty: Pose's Indya Moore Lands Coveted Contracts with IMG and William Morris
With her high cheekbones, full lips and long, lithe limbs, it’s hard to believe that Pose actress Indya Moore isn’t better known as a model. After all, she’s modeled for Dior and Gucci and walked in New York Fashion Week. But while Moore may be beautiful by any standard, the fashion industry has been stunningly…
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Misty Copeland Portrays a Stripper in the 2019 Pirelli Calendar—and We Feel a Way [Updated]
Updated Thursday, July 26 2018 at 3:30 p.m. EDT: This story has been updated to include a statement from Pirelli regarding their 2019 calendar. Earlier: For fashion photography lovers, the annual Pirelli calendar has become a highly anticipated release, attracting some of the world’s most beautiful faces and most renowned photographers. Formerly best known as a…