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Is Liza Koshy the next Lucille Ball?
Liza Koshy sashays through a New York photo studio on midtown Manhattan’s far West side, her hair swept in an updo, her face patted down beautifully and a black sleeveless ankle-length frock trimmed with sparkles, enhancing her petite frame. She’s slipped off the heels, provided by stylist Cannon for the magazine’s photo shoot, and stands in her bare feet, a bundle of energy, her Colgate smile lighting up her face.
Pritika Swarup: Unleashing woman energy
The supercharged creative economy, born from global digitization, has given rise to a new wave of impressive multi-hyphenates. Historically, the term described entertainers who excelled at acting, singing, and dancing—icons like Beyoncé, Liza Minnelli, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sammy Davis Jr., Ginger Rogers, and more recently, Teyana Taylor. They are a rare breed.. Today, multi-hyphenates extend beyond entertainment, encompassing creatives who excel across disciplines and shape culture.
Exploring the Memoirs and Stories Behind Iconic Black Fashion and Style
Learn the global fashion scene, while discovering the rich cultural roots and bold creativity behind today's trends. By Serena Carter Sept. 12 2024, Published 5:14 p.m. ET Dapper Dan: Made In Harlem: A Memoir Dapper Dan is one of the most influential people in the fashion world. The Harlem native took the world by storm in the 1980s when he pioneered high-end streetwear by turning luxury brands into his own designs.
Missing Bobby Short
Bobby Short decided to turn pro after he played the swank Palmer House in Chicago. He was 10. A precocious, cherub-cheeked man-child, he’d been singing and playing the piano by ear since he was four years old. From the Palmer, Short would go on to perform for four presidents, numerous celebrities, countless society blue bloods, and anyone who happened to want to be wrapped in a gossamer cocoon of urbane luxuriance, if only for one night.
A Fun, Satisfying Finish to New York Fashion Week
Though there was some turbidity, creatively this was the kind of New York Fashion Week that grew on you. Designers focused on what could please the broadest possible audience while injecting some personality into their offerings. From an insider perspective, working fashion people did not like tearing around town to see collections. They had plenty to say about who showed in Brooklyn and corners of Manhattan. Where will they think of next? Staten Island?
At Fashion Week, Female Designers Show Their Strength
Beyoncé making an appearance at NYFW doesn’t happen every day, nor was the superstar dressed for the everyday — unless you count white and silver sequins from head to toe, with a matching headscarf, shades, and silver cowboy boots as everyday. I didn’t think so. Queen Bey, her mother Tina Knowles, and her sister Solange, attended the Luar show, a terrific meditation on gender dressing and gargantuan shoulders, to cheer on her nephew, Daniel Julez Smith, who walked the runway.
New York Fashion Week Touches Down
What is it about our current climate that has everyone taking stock? For so many designers, it’s time to take a look back at what they’ve accomplished in order to move forward in these uncertain times. Suddenly, “new-new” isn’t necessarily as magical as it was yesterday. The most resolute of us are trying to stay steady in this topsy-turvy world.
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Content Creator. Editor in Chief. Author. Fashion. Culture. Editorial Direction 5m Watching the build up and live coverage of the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft with the phenom 7ft 3in Victor Wembanyama. Equally interesting is the focus these days on the fashion worn by the players. The athletes have always given attention to what they wear. Most of them come from the African American special occasion culture after all.
The Fascinating, Ever-Evolving History of the Oscars Red Carpet
Bernadine Morris, the esteemed 20th-century fashion critic, said she covered fashion the same way her (mostly male) colleagues covered sports. Today, fashion, like sports, has become an integral part of the entertainment landscape, and the Academy Awards are the Super Bowl of fashion. Bolstered by millions of viewers from every medium, the Oscars have become a fun fishbowl, at least for us, the audience. We get to look and cast our own votes.
Luar
Review of Luar Fall 2023 Fashion Show Whether it’s the boulder shoulder or the bolder shoulder, it’s on the rise By Constance C.R. White Should Raul Lopez, designer of Luar, be the creative director at Louis Vuitton Men’s, and Pharrell Williams, the ambassador? The announcement that LVMH named Williams mens creative director came in the middle of fashion week and, well, everyone was talking about it.
Brandon Maxwell
Review of Brandon Maxwell Fall 2023 Fashion Show A Disciplined Palette of Jet Black, Warm White, and Shades of Brown, including Definitely Not-boring Beige By Constance C.R. White Unfussy, serene, and powerful. Brandon Maxwell made as strong a case as you’ll get these days for the power of minimalism.
Luis de Javier
Review of Luis de Javier Fall 2023 Fashion Show Clubs, Eroticism and Queer Culture Power The Brand By Constance C.R. White From the first look to the last, Luis de Javier proved himself different. The 26-year-old Spaniard by way of England, unfurled his highly anticipated show for the first time in America – and only the second time anywhere if you count a small outing at Selfridges. He did not disappoint. It was subversive, evocative, innovative and memorable.
Coach
Review of Coach Fall 2023 Fashion Show A brat pack of young talent – from rappers to actors- were at the show By Constance C.R. White Like a fashion bellwether for the Coach show that was unfolding in front of him, Lil Nas X sat in the front row sucking on a red lollipop. It matched his red and blue custom-made outfit comprising an adorable Valentine/ Galentine Coach handbag and foreshadowed the lollipop earrings dangling from the models’ ears as they came down the runway.
Ulla Johnson
Review of Ulla Johnson Fall 2023 Fashion Show Romantic Full Sleeves, Ruffles and Glazed Leather By Constance C.R. White Every theater professional knows that the wrong set can spoil an otherwise great play, and the right set can enhance a production. Against a magnificent backdrop afforded by the view from the 65th floor of the magnificent new Spiral building at 66 Hudson Boulevard East, Ulla Johnson showed off her signature love of period fashion updated with a modern-esque approach.
Sergio Hudson
Review of Sergio Hudson Spring 2023 Fashion Show Vibrant Color, Sexy Silhouettes Recall the ‘Supes’ Era By Constance C.R. White Pamela Anderson’s documentary on Netflix is a surprise hit. Primarily because we had low expectations about what a sexpot could possibly tell us. But Pamela: A Love Story proves that women with big hair and a talent for sexploitation are neither necessarily dumb nor one-dimensional. Anderson was on my mind at Sergio Hudson’s rich, sunny, show.
Tom Ford Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Tom Ford Spring 2023 Fashion Show America’s Glamor King in a Complicated Mood By Constance C.R. White Humans are complex beings and perhaps no designer is more complex and influential than Tom Ford. “Fun. I was inspired by fun,” he said of his collection tonight. And indeed It was a sexy, fun and funny show. Sexy would be the low riding pants, the cutout sequin dresses, skimpy bra-tops under jackets, short leggy looks and the smoky eyes and asymmetric afro blowouts.
Michael Kors Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Michael Kors Spring 2023 Fashion Show The polished jet-set life lives on By Constance C.R. White I’d like to see Michael Kors betray his core customers occasionally. The beautiful, polished presentation was vintage Kors. Restrained luxury is Kors forte. With a nod to Halston, there were sharp-shouldered jackets flung over matching blouses or turtlenecks and sinewy dresses and skirts with low-slung amoeba-buckle belts.
Aliette Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Aliette Spring 2023 Fashion Show Jason Rembert’s Triumphant Return to New York Fashion Week By Constance C.R. White It’s been three years since designer and stylist Jason Rembert presented his Aliétte collection during New York Fashion Week. “That’s a long time,” said Rembert. Using a strong dose of color and dramatic red-carpet-ready looks, he made sure that fashion felt his return. Tons of folks throw around the job description of celebrity stylists. Self definition can be good.
Tory Burch Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Tory Burch Spring 2023 Fashion Show The Easy Glamor of Zen Style By Constance C.R. White Tory Burch took the fashion flock down by the water beneath an Alexander Calder sculpture to communicate a message of minimalist sensuality, an ease-filled approach to fashion that was a departure from her recent collections. “I wanted to strip everything down,” said Burch after the show.
Gabriela Hearst Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Gabriela Hearst Spring 2023 Fashion Show Is there such a thing as social impact designing? By Constance C.R. White There was a live choir performance at Gabriela Hearst’s show. Dressed in white, they formed a column on either side of the runway, through which the models walked to the sweet sounds of their acapella voices.
Brandon Maxwell Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Brandon Maxwell Spring 2023 Fashion Show Combining the glamor and the ease in one neat, new package By Constance C.R. White Brandon Maxwell usually brings the glam-more. More gorgeousness, more grandeur, more Hollywood. So it was a surprise to see how measured his new collection was. That’s not to suggest that Maxwell, who’ll be 38, in a few days, had a designer lobotomy. The collection was still him. If you called it casual glamor you would be on point.
Review of Carolina Herrera
Review of Carolina Herrera Spring 2023 Fashion Show by Wes Gordon Herrera’s Secret Garden tended by an Optimistic Creator By Constance C.R. White The Carolina Herrera blouse is recognizable if you know what to look for. Herrera herself wore one on several occasions showing its versatility. She wore it like a work shirt, a power lunch look and sometimes as a black-tie evening piece.
Coach Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Coach Spring 2023 Fashion Show Stuart Vevers’ Muses For A New Coach: Models and Montero By Constance C.R. White One of Stuart Vevers’s gifts is that he takes Coach to places where the brand has never been before. In moving the heritage brand forward, he doesn’t leave anyone behind. There are plenty of stylishly classic, wardrobe-builder clothes and accessories to keep the traditionalist happy.
LaQuan Smith Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of LaQuan Smith Spring 2023 Fashion Show Bright hues and a refreshingly tame collection for ladies who lounge By Constance C.R. White You can call him Mr. Smith, or LaQuan, if you’re nasty, but he’s king of the unabashedly sexy. Smith’s considerable talent lies in his ability to tantalize without ever stripping down to the bare essentials. He brought new refinement and restraint to his collection and showed the breadth of his work.
Khaite Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Khaite Spring 2023 Fashion Show We’re Excited About the First Khaite Store By Constance C.R. White Catherine Holstein brought a laser-sharp focus to her work. There were no extraneous details, nocute looks “worth trying” or pieces that were attempts to please everybody. Every look in her “Wild at Heart” inspired collection was needed, and earned its place. Holstein said she plans to open her first brick and mortar store soon, possibly in the next few months. It will be located in New York.
Tommy Hilfiger Fall 2022 Fashion Show Review
Review of Tommy Hilfiger Fall 2022 Fashion Show The last man standing brings American Fashion Home. By Constance C.R. White The heavens opened, the rain poured down. Umbrellas went up. Black cars gridlocked the street as hundreds of showgoers descended on the Skyline Drive-in theater, located in Queens. GPS’s went haywire sending ride sharers and walkers to the wrong location. Nonetheless, the stage was set for the Tommy Hilfiger experience. These days most Hilfiger shows are see-now, buy-now affairs.
Ulla Johnson Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Ulla Johnson Spring 2023 Fashion Show Almost halfway through NYFW and the energy is growing By Constance C.R. White Ulla Johnson dipped her brush into the Seventies paint pot to create a collection that women who love expressive clothes will find appealing. Designers often put one thing on the runway and another in stores, leading to a disconnect and disappointment for customers. Designers will say, the retailers made them do it.
Review of Jason Wu Collection
Review of Jason Wu Collection Spring 2023 Fashion Show Lingerie Fashion is Back Nineties-style By Constance C.R. White Jason Wu wants to bring attention to the kind of artisans, dressmakers, seamstresses and patternmakers that energized American fashion four to five decades ago. We know Americans can market well or distribute goods over thousands of square miles. This bears no questioning.
Prabal Gurung Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Prabal Gurung Spring 2023 Fashion Show Who does better fashion; Designers or the street? By Constance C.R. White Several designers have expressed optimism and a yearning for joyful times. But Prabal Gurung is upset. It’s uplifting to have clothes meant to stoke fun and engender a feeling of happiness. On the other hand, it’s refreshing to acknowledge where that yearning for joyfulness is coming from.
Fendi Baguette Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Review of Fendi Baguette Spring 2023 Fashion Show The Startling Return of The Baguette By Constance C.R. White Fendi staged an extravaganza, a sleek sharp, star-studded fashion show last night, all to highlight the baguette. The baguettte is the evocative name given to the small handbag which caused a sensation 25 years ago. Bags are a big part of the growth and bottomline of most modern designer brands.
Proenza Schouler Spring 2023 Fashion Show Review
Spring 2023: Not a Culture Clash But a Culture Collab By Constance C.R. White Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez don’t want to talk about achieving twenty years in the business. “We’re actually not talking about that.” Said McCollough. We’re not anniversary people.” That’s okay with us. But we still want to note it. The boys aren’t boys anymore. Not that they ever were when they first splashed on to the fashion scene giving us a good douse of exuberance.
How did Harvey Weinstein Get Away With it for so Long?
Harvey Weinstein was a college dropout and budding concert promoter in Buffalo, New York, when, it seems, he first sexually assaulted a woman. By the time the Miramax cofounder was led away in handcuffs in 2020, almost 100 women had come forward to accuse him. In an unsparing account of the fall of Weinstein, author Ken Auletta details his many offenses. Included are avarice, indiscipline, corporate mismanagement, infidelity, aggression, and violence.
Summer Sizzle BVI
One of the getaway treats we’ve missed during Covid are the fashioncation events that have sprung up around the world. Among the most notable is the brainchild of Terry Donovan, Summer Sizzle, which happens once a year in the British Virgin Islands. Like most travel events, Summer Sizzle was forced to take a hiatus for two years. But, it’s back. Now in its 12th year, the highlight of the five-day fashion and luxury fest is, you guessed it – a fashion show featuring international and local designers.
Meet the New Wave of Leaders Transforming the Dance World
DARRELL GRAND MOULTRIE Choreographer and teacher Born and raised in Harlem, the celebrated Darrell Grand Moultrie works across ballet, contemporary, and commercial dance genres with ease, winning multiple awards along the way. His latest crowd-pleasing piece, Indestructible Light, created in a pandemic bubble, was set to the recordings of Duke Ellington and performed by ABT on tour.
Thom Browne Fall 2022 Fashion Show Review
Review of Thom Browne Fall 2022 Fashion Show You’re Somebody’s Baby: Thom Browne’s Childhood Fantasy By Constance C.R. White It took the spatial vastness of New York’s Jacob Javits Center to contain Thom Browne’s profoundly grand vision. To have fun. Challenged, as so many of us are, by the uncertainty of the present moment the timing of his mission couldn’t be better. We wrestle with what’s normal and what isn’t? Should we wear a mask or not wear a mask? Some at the show did; many did not.
Silas Farley Returns to the NYCB - But Not to Dance
Silas Farley leans back in his chair, the delight evident on his smiling face as he warms to his subject: Igor Stravinsky. The Russian composer is the reason that Farley, who electrified audiences for seven years as a member of the New York City Ballet corps de ballet before his surprising exit in 2020, is about to touch down in the city for the first time in two years. And a lot has changed in the world of dance since.
What André Leon Talley Meant to Black People in Fashion
Polaroid of André Leon Talley, by Andy Warhol, 1984. Photo: © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy James R. Hedges, IV Collection. Polaroid of André Leon Talley, by Andy Warhol, 1984. Photo: © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy James R. Hedges, IV Collection. Polaroid of André Leon Talley, by Andy Warhol, 1984.
THE TOP 22 BLACK STYLE MOMENTS OF 2021
Because there’s no beginning without an ending, Janus, the mythical god for whom January is named, has two faces, one looking back and the other looking forward. As we take on 2022, let’s review the top Black style moments of 2021. In many ways it was a rough year, due to COVID, yet a lot happened last year that was notable, delightful and just plain inspiring. We weren’t able to include everything on our list.
Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger: Balancing Family, Fame, and Fashion
When Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger along with her husband and fellow designer, Tommy Hilfiger, decamped from Miami to Palm Beach a little over a year ago, one reason was to find the right school for their son. Like many other business and creative leaders, the family is putting down deeper roots in this Arcadian community, formerly associated with mid-century snowbirds like C.Z. Guest.
Anifa Mvuemba, a New Face of Fashion
A fashion force has emerged from Washington D.C. Anifa Mvuemba is a disruptor in an industry finding its feet as it navigates headwinds like the pandemic and its attendant supply chain disruptions. She’s built a business on loyal customers, sans the industry’s traditional gatekeepers, and outside a major fashion city. Moreover, almost ten years in, and it’s clear Mvuemba knows how to craft bold, sophisticated body-licious designs.
Influencers Take Over Fifth Avenue at New York Fashion Week
Covid ratcheted up our online shopping higher than anyone thought possible just two years ago. So it’s no surprise that influencers, today’s shopping Svengalis, are growing in fashion importance by leaps. Influencers were in force at Monday’s Met Gala and New York Fashion Week as designers, and the rest of the business world, grapple with the changes represented by these hybrid celebrities, curators and trusted advisers. They’ve changed the marketing game and the way in which we experience brands.
What Does Your Vacation Smell Like?
RARELY do we go rummaging through our brain’s olfactory files for reminders of an impressive vacation. But this is a great time to give a workout to what chef Marcus Samuelsson calls our “smell muscle,” using our sense of smell to experience more of the world. You’re sure to get your heart pumping.
Imbolo Mbue on Her New Novel That was 17 Years in the Making
When Imbolo Mbue writes, she thinks about power. Political power, economic power, female power, male power, media power, power of government, Black power, White power. Power as a living, breathing, heart-thumping act of brutality, or even in fact of love. With Mbue, you discover power where you thought none existed, as in her new novel, How Beautiful We Were.
New York Fashion Week and the American Collections 2021
Photo: Courtesy of Anna Sui As fashion continues to be challenged due to COVID-19, American designers present their collections virtually this week and next, further establishing a new virtual norm within the world of fashion design. As a result of these changes, undaunted designers, editors, retailers, stylists, photographers, and public relations professionals are all rallying to create a season that is meaningful to the industry and to its consumers.
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In notes about the collection, Wu states: “For fall 2021, I was feeling nostalgic of my school days in New England and the very idyllic Americana backdrop of those years.… Share As fashion continues to be challenged due to COVID-19, American designers present their collections virtually this week and next, further establishing a new virtual norm within the world of fashion… Share The 2021 Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden highlighted some of what we can expect to see from a new...
Why You Need a Trip to Toni Morrison’s Mythical Caribbean This Summer
For a transporting beach read with real depth, revisit ‘Tar Baby,’ where themes of racial and class tensions are woven through a tempestuous love story set on an imaginary island By Constance C.R. White June 27, 2020 12:00 am ET WITHIN THE FIRST few pages of Toni Morrison’s “Tar Baby,” a young black Floridian fugitive named Son jumps off the top deck of a cargo ship and into the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea—and off we go.
Three Essential Novels That Movingly Explore Racism in the U.S.
Terry McMillan Author of 10 novels, including ‘Waiting to Exhale,’ ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’ and more recently, ‘It’s Not All Downhill From Here’ “Bebe Moore Campbell’s ‘Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine.’ Bebe was only 5 years old when Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store because he had whistled at her. Emmett became Armstrong Todd in Bebe’s 1992 novel.
Harlem's Legacy As a Cultural and Fashion Capital
It’s been said in Harlem, that a man or woman is called to their time. Resurgent fashion icon Dapper Dan has every reason to believe this to be true. A Gucci-Dapper Dan billboard looms over the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue like a bird about to take flight, and “Dap” (as his friends call him), much like Harlem itself, is experiencing a renaissance.
More than a Runway Show at NYFW
Officially, by edict of the CFDA, New York Fashion Week closed Wednesday with Marc Jacobs’ show. But since no one is the boss of fashion week, just like no one’s the boss of an unruly 3-year old, designers kept showing and fashionistas kept trekking to see collections well into Sunday, the day “the people” decided would be the close of New York Fashion Week.
FROM THE OSCARS’ RED CARPET: THE HOTTEST FASHION TRENDS YOU’LL WANT TO INSPIRE YOU THIS SEASON
PINK PANTHERS Pink had to be the sweetest trend to come out of the Oscars. From pale shades of baby pink on Kasey Musgraves in Giambattista Valli to deep hues of cerise worn by Frances McDormand in Maison Valentino and Helen Mirren in Schiaperelli. GENDER NEUTRAL Girls will be boys and boys can be girls or at least dress up in gender fluid looks. Billy Porter got this trend rolling in his black tuxedo dress by Cristian Siriano.
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