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6 Jun

The House of LR&C Discusses SDGs at United Nations

The United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network hosted its annual meeting, co-convened by the Fashion Impact Fund and the United Nations Office for Partnerships, on June 1, on the United Nations Headquarters in Latest York. The event was attended by greater than 150 industry stakeholders, United Nations representatives and members of the media to debate actions, solutions and progress and advance knowledge to strengthen engagement to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. The meeting began with a temporary but powerful statement from Annemarie Hou, executive director of the United Nations office for partnerships, who addressed the “most trendy crowd on the UN” who she urged to “make a fashion statement today.” “We wish the world to take notice,” Hou said. “We wish...
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31 May

Garment District Committee Discusses $4.5M Zone Revitalization

The Garment District local planning committee met Wednesday morning for the primary in a series of meetings slated under the state’s district revival initiative. In February, Recent York Governor Kathy Hochul granted the storied garment zone $4.5 million through the state’s NY Forward program for neighborhood revitalization. In all, the NY Forward program mobilizes $100 million to support equitable recovery, following the COVID-19 pandemic, mirroring that of a previous successful initiative called Downtown Revitalization. The Garment District, per local nonprofit Garment District Alliance’s formal definition, encompasses 24 blocks, 6,500 businesses, 75,000 employees and is visually denoted by a colossal yellow button statue, balanced on a 28-foot-high needle on Seventh Avenue at thirty ninth Street. The district is among the many least populated...
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26 Dec

Exclusive: Arlene Martin Discusses Extravagant Hairstyles For P-Valley Characters

Arlene Martin could never have guessed when she was growing up in Youngstown, Ohio, that she would in the future grow to be probably the most sought-after hair stylists in the style and wonder world and work behind the scenes on probably the most anticipated shows on the Starz network, P-Valley. Article continues after video. “I feel that the artistry of hair actually selected me. After I really give it some thought, I feel prefer it was a calling at a really early age,” Martin shares with ESSENCE exclusively. “I actually have all the time been a creative person, so it wasn’t a surprise that my destiny could be intertwined with the artistry of hair.” The founding father of Arlene Martin Hair &...
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4 Oct

Rachelle Pownall-Brown Discusses Consciously Chic Style

Rachelle Pownall-Brown. Photo by Jim Coarse Buccini/Pollin Group marketing manager Rachelle Pownall-Brown knows her own brand and emphasizes conscious fashion decisions. What drives your style? Strength and femininity. Everyone must have an influence suit. But sometimes I can go frilly—whatever makes me feel powerful.…It’s definitely modified together with my budget. I began with secondhand shops—I still like vintage and secondhand, needless to say. Now I should purchase recent pieces. Favorite fashion era: The Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies—the people festival look. I all the time loved the movie Dazed and Confused. My mom was a teacher within the Nineteen Sixties, and he or she wore culottes. She said it was taking a probability fashion-wise at...
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