sustainable fashion
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The Best Runway Fashion, Natural Hair Looks You Missed at ESSENCEFest 2024
Thanks to AfroPunk and Naturally Curly, the best of the best in style and natural hair were on display.
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Our Favorite Sustainable Black-Owned Fashion Brands
These beautiful clothes and accessories not only look good, they are good for the planet
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Thrilling x Black Owned Everything: Stylist Zerina Akers Gives Black Friday a Sustainable Remix
You may have first become familiar with Zerina Akers through her long and very successful working relationship with an up-and-coming artist named Beyoncé (or something like that). But the stylist, designer and influencer is a force of fashion in her own right, both forecasting trends and consistently sharing her growing independent platform with Black designers,…
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A Sustainable Star: Zendaya to Be Honored as a 'Visionary' at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards
She’s the youngest actress to win an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy—and as it turns out, she’s an ecological winner, too! Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) reports that actress and fashion icon Zendaya will be awarded the 2020 Visionary Award at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards (GCFAs), an Italian-based awards ceremony that will…
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Don’t Call It a Comeback: With an Ethically-Based New Label, Designer Tracy Reese Honors Her Detroit Roots
She was the first black female designer to be recognized by the ever-exclusive fashion industry, and two decades after launching her eponymous label, Tracy Reese continues to lead the charge. After taking what appeared to be a well-deserved break from the flurry of biannual Fashion Weeks the past few seasons, the Detroit-born Reese has reemerged—with…
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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.…
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Sole Purpose: Gift Style With a Conscience for the Holidays
Christmas is only two weeks away, and I haven’t done a thing. (Don’t even ask me what to do about Kwanzaa; I’m hoping for some celebratory guidance from my new colleagues here at The Root.) But whatever you’re celebrating this December, these chic shoes from Uwezo add a dash of boho style to your closet…