Black Fashion Designers: Taubman’s Color Luxury Boutique For African Americans Designers In Los Angeles Has Opened.
Tori Nichel, the New York-based founder of the online retail platform Maison Black, which has popped up at Shinola in Detroit and GSTQ in New York, and Frenchye Bush Harris, who founded The Black Fashion Movement in 2020 as a grassroots social media campaign to promote Black-owned brands online and eventually via in-person luxury shopping experiences at Galleria Dallas and other properties, are curating the brands. The store will carry more than 50 labels, including garments from Kevan Hall, In Earnest by ...
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L’Oréal Paris Launches in Kenya: Days After Rihanna’s Fenty Launched in Nairobi, a French Beauty Brand Debuts in Kenya
With the debut of L'Oréal Paris only a week after the introduction of another global brand, Fenty Beauty, in Kenya, competition in the local beauty and cosmetics market has heated up. The move comes as the industry continues to draw large corporations looking to expand into new lines of operation and make multimillion-dollar acquisitions.
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Africa Fashion Designers: Designers From Africa Are Making Waves Around The World.
The continent of Africa is a melting pot of African culture and identity. As a result, our fashion and design expressions are broad and diversified. We honor African fashion designers who have excelled in communicating our black culture and variety to the rest of the world in this post. The fashion world's ever-watchful eyes have finally begun to turn towards Africa and its burgeoning crop of fashion superstars, although slowly. Some are already well-known, while others are just breaking out, ...
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Fenty Africa: Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty Exclusive Launch in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya's top influencers, media personalities, celebrities, makeup artists, screen sirens, and Instagram heavyweights descended on the Social House to celebrate famed Bajan singer Rihanna's Fenty Beauty soft launch, which was studded with all things beautiful, exquisite, lush, and posh. At 7 p.m., the celebs began to arrive, and the red carpet was a whirl of activity, with cameras flashing, bodies popping, and champagne flowing. Janet Mbugua, Makena Njeri, Kendi Christine, Noni Muchiri, and Annette Gitau were among the many celebrities ...
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8 South African Tribes Are Honored In Thebe Magugu’s New Dresses.
Magugu sought to keep this attitude alive in his latest effort by designing a clothing for each of South Africa's eight major tribes: Zulu, Tswana, Swati, Vhavenda, Pedi, Xhosa, Tsonga, and Sotho. "I wanted to commemorate the primary eight cultures that we have here in South Africa because I value my own so much," says Magugu, a Tswana tribe member. "While we're recognized for our storytelling and handiwork, all of the other countries have their own customs and peculiarities that ...
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