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7 Aug

Normani, Marrisa Wilson and More Rejoice Black Business Month

Normani, Marrisa Wilson and More Rejoice Black Business Month
Getty Images for H&M Black Business Month officially starts Tuesday. Founded in 2004 by historian John William Templeton and engineer Frederick E. Jordan Sr., the month is held to commemorate Black-owned businesses, Black entrepreneurs and the push for overall economic growth. To start out the celebration, singer Normani visited the Buy From a Black Woman Encourage tour with H&M, appearing on the organization’s pop-up store in Los Angeles on July 22. “Black women have been leading the numbers in terms of starting a business,” Normani told WWD. “Annual sales for Black women business owners are five times smaller than all women-owned businesses on account of lack of support and awareness,” she continued, sharing her support for BFABW. “This organization empowers, educates, and inspires...
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6 Jul

Thompson’s Armani First, Zegna and Mr Porter Rejoice, Holt

Thompson’s Armani First, Zegna and Mr Porter Rejoice, Holt
A FIRST TIMER: It was Emma Thompson’s first fashion show. “I do know, can you think it? Incredible. Nevertheless it’s not my world,” quipped the Oscar winner at Giorgio Armani’s high fashion show in Paris on Tuesday. She was clad in a vivid pink suit for the occasion, and accompanied by daughter Gaia. “I really like Armani, latest inventions and you possibly can be perfection,” she added, breaking into rhyme. Thompson climbed over the seats to hug Kate Hudson amidst the claustrophobic close quarters of the front row frenzy. “It’s so hot, what were they considering?” she said of the tented area where the show was held. But Hudson was keeping cool in a bandeau top and high ponytail. “I believe he’s an...
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25 Jun

Demi Moore, Maluma, Cha Eun-woo Have a good time

Demi Moore, Maluma, Cha Eun-woo Have a good time
Follow the trucks. That is likely to be the motto for fashion week, as devoted fans of recent Dior ambassadors Apo and Mile hired not one, but three, trucks to drive around Paris promoting the Thai actors. (The same stunt happened for Chinese pop star Fan Chengcheng at the day before today’s Givenchy show, though his truck was solo.) Their destination was the Ecole Militaire, where Kim Jones was staging his fifth anniversary show. The duo were thrilled to be there, despite all of the commotion, and gamely posed for photos with anyone and everybody who asked, plus filmed the whole show from their front-row seats. Apo and Mile, who costar within the Thai drama “KinnPorsche,” were introduced to K-pop star Cha...
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14 Jun

Marimekko Recruits Three Artists for Installations to Have fun

Marimekko Recruits Three Artists for Installations to Have fun
POINTS OF PRIDE: In honor of Pride Month, the Finnish design house Marimekko has called upon three LGBTQ visual artists in Latest York, Bangkok and Helsinki, Finland, to create work for a Marimekko store window. Brooklyn, Latest York-based art director and illustrator Shanée Benjamin, Bangkok-based illustrator Juli Baker and Summer and the Helsinki-based visual and textile artist Anna-Karoliina Vainio were recruited for commissions. Baker, who earned a fashion degree at Chulalongkorn University, began her artist profession under the nom de plume Juli Baker and Summer in 2015. As some extent of reference to assist get the three artists’ ideas circulating, they got a quote by Marimekko founder Armi Ratia, who wrote in her diary on the age of 14, “There is barely one strength —...
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