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12 Sep

Your Favorite Beauties Were Front Row At Willy Chavarria’s

Your Favorite Beauties Were Front Row At Willy Chavarria’s
Getty Images / Gilbert Flores Just months ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election (and days before the primary Harris-Trump debate), one in all Latest York’s buzziest designers Willy Chavarria gave us a seat on the table for his SS25 show. Held in the town’s financial district—across from the Trump constructing and NYSE—his latest collection titled “América” referenced each traditional codes and the wonder in diverse humanity. From squared Grace Jones hair shapes and barbed wire braids to a masculine skin finish with leather eyeliner, the large 65-look show unified minority communities. “It looks like the variety we would really like to see sitting on the table here in America,” hairstylist Joey George tells ESSENCE.  Paloma Elsesser backstage at Willy Chavarria RTW Spring 2025...
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10 Nov

Beauties of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Beauties of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
And there it was. The strange machine of talking to myself. Within the black and white photograph, I appeared as any stranger would. Dazed, worldly, beautiful and dazzling. The silence was magnificent as any silence was at the moment of yr in South Africa. I repeat myself. Forget if those words were a part of an essay, prose, haiku or poetry. Rain. It's purity lit up. An emblem. The veil lifted up. Humanity lit up, lifted up in a way. As cold as ice. Plums stored within the refrigerator. Whatever was stolen is that this. Birdsong, foot stomping on the steps by children scribbling within the air, the celebrities’ survival, the change in climate but you see I don't...
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21 Apr

The Punks, Savage Beauties & More – WWD

The Punks, Savage Beauties & More – WWD
Getty Images The Met Gala is one among the most important events on the style industry calendar. The annual event raises funds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Since 1995, it has been within the hands of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, who has wielded her influence to show the gala into probably the most celebrity-studded affairs in fashion and Hollywood. Eleanor Lambert, a fashion publicist, organized the Met Gala in 1948 as a fundraiser for the then-newly founded Costume Institute to commemorate the inauguration of its yearly show. The primary gala was a banquet with tickets costing $50 apiece. After Wintour took over the event, its red carpet became probably the most watched. Annually, the Met Gala gets a...
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