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6 Sep

Harlem Fashion Row’s 2024 Show Paid Homage To Retro

Harlem Fashion Row’s 2024 Show Paid Homage To Retro
Courtesy of Noemie Marguerite One thing we are able to count on Harlem Fashion Row to do is honor Black excellence, beauty, and style. NYFW kicked off the SS25 season with the seventeenth annual fashion show and awards ceremony, founded by Brandice Daniel. The evening honored fashion’s biggest names: Naomi Campbell, Teyana Taylor, Samira Nasr, and Shiona Turini. Not only that, it was a time to highlight latest collections from rising Black designers like Aaron Potts, Nicole Benefield, and LaTouché. To accompany the looks—which ranged from tailored suits to daring maxi skirts— were, in fact, aspirational makeup and hair moments, too. A. Potts Ricky Wilson, celebrity makeup artist, tells ESSENCE that he loves that “individuals are bringing awareness to taking good care of...
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4 Oct

Louise Trotter’s Carven Debut, Loewe’s Look, and The Row’s

Louise Trotter’s Carven Debut, Loewe’s Look, and The Row’s
PARIS — It was a Paris Fashion Week of emotional highs, goodbyes and decisive debuts. All of it played out against the backdrop of the still-strong trend of “quite luxury,” which was pushed ever so subtly into the background with the growing spectacle of celebrity-driven shows and front rows. The departures of Gabriella Hearst from Chloé and Sarah Burton from Alexander McQueen were especially notable as they were two of the only a few women to move up large fashion houses. “The changing of the guard and farewells to each…were bittersweet moments throughout the week. The exiting leadership from two visionary female designers can be deeply missed,” noted Jodi Kahn, vp of luxury fashion at Neiman Marcus. Louise Trotter’s debut collection at...
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13 Sep

Celebs Hit Front Rows at LaQuan Smith and Tory

Celebs Hit Front Rows at LaQuan Smith and Tory
Celeb Support: LaQuan Smith held his runway show at Lower East Side venue Skylight at Essex Crossing on Monday night, drawing a front row that included musicians — Babyface, Mary J. Blige, Fabolous, Summer Walker, and Saweetie — together with actors like Laverne Cox, Leyna Bloom, Quinta Brunson and Yvonne Orji, and model Coco Rocha. “I used to be actually at one in every of his first fashion shows,” Saweetie said of her support for the designer. “But once I was at his [early] shows, I used to be standing, not sitting. I’ve evolved in the style world, I do know that’s right.” The Grammy-nominated rapper was wearing one in every of Smith’s designs, a red sequined gown with a midriff cutout. “I like...
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21 Nov

Harlem’s Fashion Row’s Brandice Daniel Partners With Major Retailers

Harlem’s Fashion Row’s Brandice Daniel Partners With Major Retailers
Brandice Daniel, chief executive officer of Harlem’s Fashion Row and Icon 360, has partnered with retailers akin to Bloomingdale’s, Shopbop and Macy’s to create a web-based shopping directory for Black designers that launches Monday. The brand new online shopping directory, HFR & Co., provides a curated list of emerging brands owned by Black and Latine designers. Somewhat than scour the web or a retailer’s website for Black designers, HFR & Co. allows shoppers to search out and support these designers through the partnering retailers’ web sites. Consumers will have the ability to buy a wide range of merchandise including women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, children’s clothes and accessories. Among the many designers featured are Amsale, LemLem, Chelsea Paris, Feben and Studio 189. “I...
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