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15 Dec

Michaela Coel And Daniel Kaluyya Toast The Holiday Season

Michaela Coel And Daniel Kaluyya Toast The Holiday Season
Michaela Coel And Daniel Kaluyya Michaela Coel and Daniel Kaluuya each made mega moves in 2022. Individually starring in a number of the 12 months’s most-buzzed-about and top-grossing movies – Kaluuya shined in Jordan Peele’s NOPE alongside Keke Palmer, and Coel joined an all-star solid within the highly-anticipated Black Panther sequel, Wakanda Ceaselessly. ESSENCE caught up with Kaluyya and Coel at Moët & Chandon’s 2022 Holiday Celebration at Latest York’s Lincoln Center David Geffen Hall as they toasted to the approaching holidays, rubbing elbows with fellow stars like Trevor Noah, Taylor Russell, Chanel Iman, Victor Cruz, and Vic Mensa, amongst others. For Kaluuya, the last page of the calendar means time for some (much-needed) rest and recharging after a whirlwind benchmark 12 months in...
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14 Dec

Gucci to Open Milan Men Fashion Week in January

Men Fashion Week
Open Milan Men Fashion Week in January MILAN — Open Milan Men Fashion Week in January The boys’ pack is gearing up for a recent season kicking off just after the vacations at Pitti Uomo in Florence after which in Milan, where men’s fashion week will run from Jan. 13 to 17. The long fashion weekend will comprise 72 events, including 21 runway shows and 31 presentations, and it’s poised to be a season of confirmations and a number of additions to the town’s fashion. Probably the most notable add-on is Gucci, which can open the season on Jan. 13 with a live show at 2 p.m. CET. The luxurious brand will present its first stand-alone men’s collection after three years of coed runways, and the...
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9 Dec

Thirteen Lune to Open First Stand-alone Retail Store

Thirteen Lune to Open First Stand-alone Retail Store
Thirteen Lune is opening its first stand-alone retail store in Los Angeles. A 1,700-square-foot space is coming to Larchmont Village in early 2023. Launched in December 2020 as a web based beauty platform — offering Black- and brown-owned brands — the business was founded by Nyakio Grieco (creator of Nyakio Beauty and Relevant: Your Skin Seen) and Patrick Herning (of size-inclusive fashion site and brand 11 Honoré). The 2 met through mutual friends in early 2019.  “After we co-created Thirteen Lune in 2020 within the midst of a world pandemic and, you already know, a racial reckoning, I knew that we were creating something that was needed and that it was just such a chance to align my passion and my purpose...
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23 Nov

Black Panther Party Art Installation To Open In Oakland

Black Panther Party Art Installation To Open In Oakland
Bettmann In Oakland, a historic hot dog restaurant utilized by members of the Black Panther Party will soon feature a everlasting art installation commemorating the group. As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Kasper’s Hot Dogs, which opened in 1943 within the Temescal neighborhood in North Oakland and is ready to reopen by yr’s end, will honor the legacy and roots of the Black Panther Party within the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where party co-founder Huey P. Newton grew up. Temescal is where the Black Panther Party was founded and was lively locally, launching initiatives resembling free breakfast for youngsters and a newspaper. The group also had a 10-point program that emphasized things like freedom, employment and housing for Black people. Kasper’s, named after founder...
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