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9 Nov

Tiffany & Co. Deepens HBCU Support in Partnership With

Tiffany & Co. Deepens HBCU Support in Partnership With
Tiffany & Co. is peeling the lid back on its efforts toward diversity, equity and inclusion. The corporate on Wednesday revealed recent initiatives as a part of its Atrium platform, which was established earlier this yr as a sustainability pillar that advocates for equity and inclusion in effective jewelry and luxury. Tiffany has teamed with Harlem’s Fashion Row to sponsor its Icon 360 HBCU Summit. The initiative entailed Tiffany executives and staff flying to fulfill with students in the style merchandising and design program at North Carolina A&T University to tell them of potential profession avenues in the posh industry. Over the course of 10 weeks, speakers like global chief human resources officer Mary Bellai, vice chairman and chief innovation officer Dana...
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9 Nov

Kumi Saito’s Shots of London, Dickson Joins Gap Board,

Kumi Saito’s Shots of London, Dickson Joins Gap Board,
STREET SHOTS: The upcoming book “Have I Met You Before? London Street Style From Fashion Week 2001-2018” provides a historical record of how showgoers dressed over the past twenty years through the lens of the London-based Japanese photographer Kumi Saito, who passed away in December 2020 from cancer. Published by Parsnips Archive, the book is edited by Saito’s longtime friend and fashion journalist Mina Wakatski, who also runs London’s famed Japanese-style French pastry shop Lanka on Finchley Road. Being published on Nov. 23, the book features greater than 200 images of 111 fashion editors, buyers, models, bloggers and influencers, including Susie Lau, Sarah Harris, Rebecca Lowthorpe, Alexa Chung, Edie Campbell and Cara Delevingne, in addition to comments from the journalists whom...
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9 Nov

The contagiousness of insecurities: is sharing online actually caring?

The contagiousness of insecurities: is sharing online actually caring?
Are we ‘normalising insecurities’ or simply giving young people recent ones? There was a time when opening up about insecurities on the web was widely praised, when people lauded it as starting necessary conversations, making celebrities more ‘human’ and helping the remainder of us feel higher about ourselves. But while breaking down physical stigmas and societal beauty standards can have been the initial goal of this sort of content, it’s taken a bizarre turn – now, it appears like we just discuss other people’s insecurities to feel higher about our own.  Last month, TikTok creator Bert sent out an open call on TikTok to “keep physical trait insecurities to yourself or to a specialised...
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9 Nov

‘King Of Soca’ Shares 40-12 months Music Journey Of

‘King Of Soca’ Shares 40-12 months Music Journey Of
I still remember the sound of the truck horns, the signature fast-paced tempos and pumping bass. It was Labor Day in 1997, and “Big Truck” by Machel Montano and Xtatik was blasting through the speakers as I stood near the corner of Brooklyn’s Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway. I used to be nine years old and it was the primary time my parents brought me “on de parkway” for The West Indian Day parade. I heard the lyrics “Run, if yah cyah keep yah need to run, when de driver blow de truck horn, run, everybody follow de song badang, badang, badang, bang….Hold on to de big truck!” At the identical time, I saw hundreds of masqueraders jumping and...
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