“Let me be clear: the established, mainstream fashion design community does not have a diversity problem, it has a ‘Black people problem.’” This sentiment, shared in Kibwe Chase-Marshall’s op-ed for Business of Fashion, is an […]
Category: Op-Ed
"If with great power comes great responsibility, it’s time for fashion’s leadership to stop abusing their positions and begin authentically making actionable commitment to solving the problem of Black exclusion."Kibwe Chase-Marshall
Read the full article @ Business of Fashion
The Conversations | Is there a new beauty movement?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conversations/id1328893989 Is there a new beauty movement? This week’s episode comes from our summer archive and in which we discuss beauty. The question being – Is there a new beauty movement – or at least […]
The Conversations | Have men in hip hop reached a new level of sartorial influence?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conversations/id1328893989 Have men in hip hop reached a new level of sartorial influence? This question was not officially posed, however, that’s the general premise of this week’s episode of The Conversations. Back in July we […]
The Conversations | Is Fashion In A State Of Disintegration?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conversations/id1328893989 Welcome to The Conversations and our inaugural podcast – with Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina. Over the summer, we started this podcast as a means to document our frequent conversations about fashion and […]
WHAT PHOEBE DID – AND NOT JUST FOR CÉLINE
A day after the confirmed news broke, I’m still processing. Not because in this political, environmental, social and quite frankly, restless fashion climate, news of Phoebe Philo’s departure from Céline is shocking. Particularly since rumors […]
THE SMARTER SHOPPER
In what is obvious news, the retail land space has changed drastically in the last 10 years. Retail, as it has been historically defined, has gone the way of landlines and checks. It no longer […]
Where Have Our Favorite Sales People Gone?
As shopping habits shift to consuming less–particularly among high-end consumers–there’s an exodus of veteran staff at your favorite stores. I occupy a pretty unique place in the shopping matrix. A fraction but a critical part […]
The Cover That Nearly Broke The Internet
On Tuesday Edward Enninful teased us with a glimpse of his Adwoa Abaoh-covered, debut issue of British Vogue and social media was shook. Publishing hasn’t seen such a positive response to a fashion magazine cover […]
Predators in Fashion
Three years ago when New York magazine published a devastating article on Terry Richardson and his alleged sexual exploitation of models; the fashion industry gasped, feigned outrage and then went right back to doing business as […]
GUCCI AND THE BLACK CULTURE CONTROVERSY
Gucci started its flirtation with black culture last spring when it teased out a Glen Luchford series showing off an all-brown cast swivelling hips, posing, and swinging on the dance floor in embroidered denim, sequinned […]
Risking Life and Limb – Gay in Jamaica
Thirty-six years ago when I left Jamaica as a fey, whip-smart adolescent with tons of personality and self-confidence, I’d already been targeted as different. I was on the receiving end of many a stink eye […]
Non-Irony and Nostalgia at Versace
Last Friday’s Versace presentation was gorgeous. No, it wasn’t necessarily “new” in concept or realization, but it was MEGA-important. To discern exactly why, one must consider the perplexing contemporary style landscape in which it contextually […]