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16 Sep

Here’s What You Missed At The First-Ever ESSENCE Eats

Here’s What You Missed At The First-Ever ESSENCE Eats
Photo By Troy Anthony After taking a hiatus through the pandemic, this 12 months’s ESSENCE Festival of Culture was larger and higher. And in case you’re a foodie, you bought a likelihood to ascertain out the first-ever ESSENCE Eats Food & Wine Festival. 2022 Essence Festival of Culture held in Latest Orleans, Louisiana- July 1-3, 2022 2022 Essence Festival of Culture held in Latest Orleans, Louisiana- July 1-3, 2022 The FoodWith over 20 food vendors, hungry festival-goers had access to not only the perfect of the perfect in Latest Orleans cuisine, but a plethora of popular eats from across the globe.  (Special shout out to Republic Bar & Grill from Ghana). Whether your taste buds were within the mood for NOLA classics like beignets...
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14 Sep

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence
Big data has long had a giant inclusivity problem. Often, AI algorithms are built with systems that may contain racial and gender biases that leave a big group of individuals unseen and unheard. That’s what led Jessica Couch and Brittany Hicks to found consumer insights and consulting firm Fayetteville Road–the name is a play on their North Carolina roots. Graduates of North Carolina State University andNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University respectively, they each learned in regards to the inner working of retail management and recognized a few of the blind spots. “I worked in tech as a product manager for several years for numerous retail tech corporations, and I had also gotten my experience for data and...
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7 Sep

Tilda Swinton Honors Ukraine With Yellow Hair at Venice

Tilda Swinton Honors Ukraine With Yellow Hair at Venice
Tilda Swinton is giving a nod to Ukraine.  On Tuesday, the award-winning actress attended the photo-call for her newest movie, “The Everlasting Daughter,” wearing an outfit by Loewe, which featured red trousers and a lightweight blue, pin-striped, oversize button-down. Her normally blond pixie hair was also dyed a brilliant yellow.  Through the press conference for the movie, Swinton stated that her look was in support of Ukraine while the country is confronting an ongoing invasion from Russia.  Tilda Swinton on the photo-call for “The Everlasting Daughter” on the 79th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 6. Corbis via Getty Images “It’s my honor to wear half of the Ukrainian flag,” she said, responding to a journalist who complimented her look, representing the underside half of...
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7 Sep

Hyères Festival Moves to October Permanently, Teases Villa Noailles’

Hyères Festival Moves to October Permanently, Teases Villa Noailles’
PARIS — The Hyères International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion Accessories will permanently happen in October, its founder and general manager Jean-Pierre Blanc revealed Wednesday here. “Postponing the festival to October [due to the COVID-19 pandemic] has given us more respiratory room within the organization,” he said during a conference cohosted by Blanc and festival president Pascale Mussard, noting that it was the “first time in 37 years” this system of an upcoming edition could possibly be formally presented.  Before diving into the particulars of the thirty seventh edition, slated to happen from Oct. 13 to 16, Blanc was already putting 2023 in everyone’s diary as it is going to mark the centenary of the Villa’s creation. This anniversary shall be an...
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