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11 Oct

L.A. Fashion Week Concludes After 4 Days of Diverse

L.A. Fashion Week Concludes After 4 Days of Diverse
LOS ANGELES — For 4 days Hollywood, California, was abuzz with crowds lining as much as see the varied L.A. Fashion Week shows organized by a latest owner in a latest location. Lines stretched down the sidewalk on Sunset Boulevard outside the Lighthouse ArtSpace, where an immersive art show featuring works of Vincent Van Gogh and a show on King Tut had taken place until they were temporarily suspended for the style event. A couple of blocks away, talks and panel discussions were organized within the historic Citizen News constructing, which houses event spaces and the hip latest Mother Wolf restaurant. Everyone was holding their breath to see how a reconfigured L.A. Fashion Week, now under the ownership of N4XT Experiences, would end...
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1 Sep

Jamie Gill Wants More Diverse C-suites at British Fashion Corporations

Jamie Gill Wants More Diverse C-suites at British Fashion Corporations
LONDON — Jamie Gill, executive director at Roksanda and chair of the British Fashion Council’s Diversity Committee, is launching an incubation project, called The Outsiders Perspective, to tackle fashion’s diversity issue behind the scenes. “It’s an incubator nurturing people of color to make sure they're equipped to affix the operational side of the style brand, driving changes in equity, diversity, inclusion in fashion,” Gill said. While racial diversity has increased on the runway and on social media in recent times, Gill argued that those working behind the scenes have barely modified. Only 5 percent of the workforce in the style industry comes from a people of color background, a study from the MBS Group and the British Fashion Council showed. “There may...
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