Author: Karissa Mitchell

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Patrick Kelly poses with his models in Paris.(Photo by julio donoso/Sygma via Getty Images) By Karissa Mitchell ·Updated September 10, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

This New York Fashion Week, ESSENCE celebrates 55 Years of Fashion with the return of ESSENCE Fashion House, themed Eternal Aura. Fashion is memory—an echo of the past, a signal to the future. For our culture, it has always been more than adornment; it is protest,

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By Karissa Mitchell ·Updated September 3, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

When Advisry debuted at New York Fashion Week in Spring 2023, its founder Keith made one thing clear: the brand would always be about more than clothes. Each collection has been a portal into a larger universe, where garments become storytelling devices, where music, film, and culture meet fashion on equal footing. That vision has remained constant,