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28 Dec

Francia Márquez Makes History As Colombia’s First Black Vice

Francia Márquez Makes History As Colombia’s First Black Vice
Francia Márquez Makes History Francia Márquez Makes History For the primary time in Colombia’s history, a Black woman is about to develop into vice chairman. Francia Márquez, an Afro-Colombian environmental activist and lawyer, won Sunday’s runoff election because the running mate to President-elect Gustavo Petro, the country’s first progressive leftist leader. Born within the small town of Yolombo, situated within the Suárez municipality of the Cauca Mountains in southwest Colombia, Márquez is a single mother of two who first became an activist on the age of 13, when the development of a dam threatened her community. She became pregnant at 16, left school to work within the local gold mines, and eventually sought work as a housekeeper. She went on to complete...
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20 Dec

The Godfather of Denim, Adriano Goldschmied, Takes a Page

The Godfather of Denim, Adriano Goldschmied, Takes a Page
Nearly 50 years ago, Adriano Goldschmied, a young and comparatively inexperienced denim guy, decided to launch his first premium blue jeans brand called Each day Blue. His strategy was to take his latest creation, launched in 1974, and sell it within the northern Italian ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo, often known as one of the fashionable and expensive ski stations in Italy where jet-setters and celebrities frolicked.  Goldschmied, who had a small store on the town, was selling his jeans for the reminiscent of what today can be $1,000. The jeans were manufactured from quality denim and well-constructed. The newly minted designer was unsure how his product would perform, but he knew he had a winner when French actress Brigitte Bardot spotted the...
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8 Dec

Makeup Museum: archiving the history of humankind via beauty

Makeup Museum: archiving the history of humankind via beauty
For Makeup Museum co-founder Doreen Bloch, the history of cosmetics is ‘central to how humans have evolved’. Here she shares glimpses of its prized treasures and divulges how the wonder trends of today connect us to the past Taken from the winter 2022 issue of Dazed. You possibly can buy a replica of our latest issue here Doreen Bloch was reading through transcripts of telephone conversations between Jackie Kennedy, then first lady, and dermatologist Dr Erno Laszlo when she became confused. The conversation was almost unintelligible, with each Kennedy and Dr Laszlo using cryptic language, trailing off mid-sentence and making oblique references to unspecified “circumstances”. Unsure of what she had stumbled upon, Bloch consulted with presidential scholar Professor...
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13 Nov

What I Double-Tapped This Weekend: Black History Month-Inspired Makeup

What I Double-Tapped This Weekend: Black History Month-Inspired Makeup
Stock Images/Getty February is moving too quickly but while we still have a while, we’re continuing the celebration of our wealthy history and our dedicated leaders. This past weekend I got here across an Instagram post of a fantastic woman with a Black history month inspired beat. The makeup is a combination of the intense and wealthy colours of our various African and Caribbean flags, and a vampy Black lip with a block of color down the middle. It’s the work of Maryland-based Crayon Cutie Shayla Reeves. Within the caption, she writes, “For the culture. I’m so grateful for many who got here before me to fight for my freedom!!” She topped the look off with a headwrap and has a...
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