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Skylar Searing By Robyn Mowatt ·Updated September 10, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Since its inception, RAISEfashion has been on a mission to platform emerging designers of color. Its latest event further informs what Felita Harris and her team set out to do with the non-profit organization that was founded in 2020. In a moment where tariffs are dangerously looming and the fashion industry often feels as though

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3.1 Phillip Lim By Robyn Mowatt ·Updated September 9, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Following Phillip Lim’s November exit from his eponymous label, the company has found a new head of design, Michelle Rhee. This news comes in the wake of the musical chairs that have been happening in the global fashion industry, however, it feels exciting and apt.

Originally from Los Angeles, Rhee feels like the ideal

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Romantic films in the modern era often lack the depth that cult classics released in the 1980s and 1990s had. “When Harry Met Sally” was lauded for the relatability of its central characters. And “Love Jones“ worked because of the ease with which we all became enraptured with Nina and Darius, played by Nia Long and

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Tone Woolfe By Andrea Bossi ·Updated September 8, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

When Black Fashion Fair announced its inaugural symposium titled “Black Fashion Forward” in April, industry insiders and fashion-philes alike responded with glee. The New York City event hosted at the Times Center promised a unique opportunity to celebrate and connect Black fashion and beauty creatives. Not only did it deliver on that promise Saturday afternoon,

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The past few days in fashion were >Christopher John Rogers to her legal wedding ceremony in Monaco. Next,

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By Jailynn Taylor ·Updated September 5, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

May 26, 2025, marks my great-grandmother’s second heavenly birthday. As I sift through family photos with my mom, the memories and emotions start to flood in. While other kids spent their summers at home or at summer camps, I was at Mother’s house. Going to church in itchy stockings and poofy dresses, praying she’d let me take communion,

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Ah, the glory days of corporate fashion, remember them? Power suits in sharp pinstripes, stiff collars, heels day in and day out and common sense. There was a certain theatre to getting dressed for the office, An unspoken rulebook where ties meant business and a solid blazer was the unofficial uniform. From interns to senior executives, the dress code was more than just

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The British Fashion Council has released the names of nominees for its annual Fashion Awards 2025 presented by Pandora, set to take place on December 1 at the Royal Albert Hall. 

Widely regarded as fashion’s equivalent to the Oscars, the annual ceremony celebrates outstanding creative and business achievements while serving as one of the industry’s most