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9 Jul

How Houston White Desires to ‘Desegregate the Skin and

How Houston White Desires to ‘Desegregate the Skin and
Houston White was 12 years old when his aunt bought him his first pair of hair clippers, and just a few hours older the primary time he put them to make use of. “I got on my bike and rode around, and I got here home with three brave souls. I cut their hair and kept going from there,” said White, who shortly thereafter landed his first gig cutting hair at his cousin’s barbershop in Mississippi. In 2007, White opened a store of his own in Minneapolis, and two years later began concocting hair pomades out of his front room. “I used to be making candles for the higher a part of two months,” joked White of the method, though he...
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9 Jul

The Museum Gift Shop Gets a Fashion Makeover as

The Museum Gift Shop Gets a Fashion Makeover as
The museum gift shop is becoming a full-fledged fashion destination for the primary time. Because the “Africa Fashion” exhibit opens on the Brooklyn Museum Friday, Alára, West Africa’s first fashion, luxury and lifestyle concept store, will open as a boutique beside it. The link-up with the museum is the Lagos, Nigeria-based store’s first foray outside of Africa, and founder Reni Folawiyo felt it was time to present the eight-year-old concept shop global reach. “Alára is a celebration of Africa, a celebration of Africans, an education for us in addition to other people on the planet. It represents an elevation of all the pieces that we do,” Folawiyo told WWD. “’Alára’ means the wondrous performer, one which thrills endlessly [in the Yoruba language]. For...
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