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9 Aug

For generations, societies have embraced clothing, gold jewelry and other material possessions as symbols of wealth, power and standing. These coveted items — like most status symbols throughout history — are expensive, desired, and, importantly, highly visible. Wearing a Rolex or driving a Porsche convertible sends a transparent message of sophistication position. But over the past decade, the symbols of status have began to evolve. As society responds to the pressures of a changing climate and difficult social problems, celebrities like Taylor Swift and Rihanna are modeling old clothing for magazine covers and calling for sustainability, while billionaires like Elon Musk are letting go of their expensive homes. The changing trends in luxury and fashion are painting a recent picture of what...

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5 Jul

The Outside View: Diversity in Danger in Post-affirmative Motion Era

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Fashion, Featured

For 45 years, Supreme Court decisions have allowed college admissions programs to weigh race — as one factor amongst many — to make sure racial diversity in higher education. But last week’s majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts striking down affirmative motion ignores the realities of race in America. And as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stated in her dissent, it “stunts that progress with none basis in law, history, logic, or justice.” There are not any winners in ending affirmative motion on college campuses and little question that this decision will extend to other areas. Black and Latinx students can be denied opportunities to excel of their studies and careers, government and industry may have difficulty constructing powerful talent pipelines,...

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6 Apr

The Outside View: Cultural Hybridity and the Way forward

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Fashion, Featured

Rapper Pharrell Williams’ arrival as creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s completes the transformation of luxury fashion right into a cultural industry for some. Others see it as a victory of celebrity marketing over creativity. In fact, it's a mixing of the 2, a tacit acknowledgment that it's hybridity driving luxury and fashion forward. Hybridity is the unexpected clash between dissonant worlds, cultures and imaginations in addition to the reconciliation of tradition and innovation. And that's what allows the industry to stay resolutely creative, alive and anchored in today’s changing and culturally mosaic world. Global brands haven't any alternative but adapt to our less and fewer Western-centric world. Demographically, Chinese and Indian people already represent 40 percent of the world population, white people will...

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22 Nov

After Nearly 150 Years, HBCU Prairie View A&M Allows

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Photo credit: Rena O. Productions In 1968, the nation’s first African American studies major was developed at San Francisco State University after an uproarious outcry from students and school. 54 years later, historically Black university Prairie View A&M University is following suit. In a news release, it was announced that the 146-year-old institution will offer students the choice to major or minor in African American studies starting this fall. “An element of the HBCU experience for a lot of students is a journey to self-identification, Blackness, and trying to know the Black experience higher,” said Director and Associate Professor of AAS Jeanelle Hope, Ph.D in a news release. “It [African American Studies] provides students with the language to know the world...

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