Covid Or Not, The Show Must Go On: New York Fashion Week Kicks Off
New York Fashion Week is back to serve up glamorous looks for 2022! With runway shows with skyscraper venues and celebrity appearances, the Big Apple's fashion week is in full gear. Christian Siriano's star-studded show featured dramatic looks and major stars, including (left to right) Danielle Brooks, Hannah Waddingham, Drew Barrymore, Alicia Silverstone, Susan Sarandon and MJ Rodriguez.
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The Top Emerging Black Designers to Know Now
Telfar Clemens’s label Telfar has redefined the “It” bag and created an “It” label in the process; Theophilio bakes community work and activism into its design ethos and brand codes; and Christopher John Rogers brings his Southern roots to a new kind of red carpet couture (inspired, always, by his mother’s church looks). In addition to these established labels, there is a whole new guard of designers making fashion and setting trends through their own, idiosyncratic visions. Many ...
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African Development Bank’s Fashionomics Africa, Partners, Launch New Sustainable Fashion Competition With $6,000 in Cash Prizes
The competition targets textile, apparel, and accessories entrepreneurs from Africa, aged 18 years or older, who have launched fashion businesses (up to a maximum of 50 employees), and whose sustainable designs have been produced within the last five years. Qualifying applicants will submit pictures of their products, detail their sustainable business model, and explain how their startup is environmentally friendly and innovative. Examples of sustainability and circularity elements might include materials used, the design process, cleaner or greener production processes - including ...
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South African Fashion Week Announces New Talent Search Finalists
SAFW’s New Talent Search has consistently unearthed future talent and served as a launchpad for many of the local industry’s most respected names since its inception in 1998. These include MmusoMaxwell, Jacques Bam, Fikile Zamagcino Sokhulu, Michael Ludwig Studio, Saint Vuyo, and Sipho Mbuto.
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The Louis Vuitton And Nike Expression Of The “air Force 1” By Virgil Abloh
The sale, which the Louis Vuitton creative designer helped to plan before his death from cancer at age 41 in November, will benefit The Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund for Black, African-American and students of African descent in the fashion industry. “We’re currently at around $6.1 million in hammer price,” said Sotheby’s head of streetwear and modern collectibles, Brahm Wachter, on Tuesday, when bids ran as high as $60,000.The original total estimate was $1 million to $3 million for the Jan. 26 to ...
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