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27 Oct

America’s Next Top AI: Can The Black Beauty Community

America’s Next Top AI: Can The Black Beauty Community
DGV architecture / Pinterest Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… AI is making its way to a runway near you. No longer just drafting emails, but curating AI-generated stitch braids and posting “picture-perfect” beauty inspo. From hair brands to fashion magazines, AI is in the final cycle. Some see it as a cost-effective tool for innovation, while others warn it could dismantle the industry and cost jobs. To get the real story, I spoke with those in the fashion and beauty community who have front row seats to the industry ins and outs. They all made one thing clear: AI is very much still in the running.  While AI is innovative, it also sidelines Black artists by profiting from our likeliness while excluding us from...
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13 Jul

High Jewelry Houses Went for Coloured Diamonds, Need to

High Jewelry Houses Went for Coloured Diamonds, Need to
PARIS — High fashion week here offered a glittering Parisian conclusion to a season of traveling jewelry showcases, with historic houses and independent names making a reveal or giving an encore of their latest designs. And whether used to double down on established codes or carve out recent ones, color continued to dominate the collections shown last week, particularly in diamonds. One would have been forgiven for forgetting that yellow ones are a rarity of nature given their profusion in collections shown in Paris, starting with Graff, where many gradations were on display within the “Sunrise” line showcased in its Saint-Honoré flagship. “Now for engagement rings, you will have more ladies selecting yellow [diamonds] as a substitute of white,” revealed design director Anne-Eva...
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