Color.Colour.Colores.

This History Makers episode is a must watch Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View.
"African Americans are excluded from the history of U.S. fashion and beauty. However, Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View shines a light on this important topic that includes black fashion dressmakers Anne Lowe, fashion designers Stephen Burrows, Byron Lars , Jeffrey Banks, and Tracey Reese; fashion activist Bethann Hardison, style icon Ophelia DeVore; hair stylists John Atchison and Olive Benson; the Ebony Fashion Fair show, widely successful hair care companies like Madame C. J. Walker, Johnson Products, Soft Sheen and cosmetic companies like Fashion Fair Cosmetics and Carol’s Daughter. Hosted by former fashion editor of The Wall Street Journal Teri Agins, Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View explores the rich history of African Americans in the fashion and beauty industry. Joining Agins are the legendary fashion show producer, Audrey Smaltz, successful menswear and home décor designer and author, Jeffrey Banks, and Assistant Curator of Costume at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Elizabeth Way. The discussion also features a Q&A session with questions from The HistoryMakers StyleMakers Advisory Committee. Tune in to this incredible panel to learn more about this fascinating and little-known history."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0kJYAa_rEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1eLGJw-ZJRSS-8bpcDpk_aS2nRYiVBAoUHRmdD57hnhNIrwGm2DnAqThw
Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View

Black Fashion and Beauty: A Historical View African Americans are excluded from the history of U.S. fashion and beauty. However, Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View shines a light on this importa...

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The Black Photographer Making History at Vanity Fair Viola Davis appears on the cover of this month’s issue, the first by a Black photographer, in an image meant to be a protest.

Join me Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 7pm on INSTRAGRAM LIVE for a conversation with Gia Rodriguez the Creative Director of the Gia Rodriguez Collection. Gia creates a luxury line of beautifully crafted handbags and accessories. We are continuing our series "Inside Braces for Outside Storms" What's Next in Fashion? Post Covid19.

Black Excellence... Buying Black.
Thanks Vicki Meek for the share, commentary and perspective.

Buying Black, Rebooted In the newest iteration of the Buy Black movement, entrepreneurs are creating marketplaces that pool black-owned brands in one space.

Barneys Is Sold for Scrap, Ending an Era The bankruptcy saga of the famed New York department store involved last-minute alliances and vain attempts to cobble together competing bids.

Lingerie!

For lingerie brands, is inclusivity the new sexy? For decades, padded push-up bras, lace-lined bodysuits and slim, voluptuous Victoria's Secret models have shaped public perceptions of what "sexy" looks like. But a growing number of lingerie brands are responding to discontent from consumers who want to see themselves better represented.

This is a great read. Kerby Jean-Raymond has something to say.

Gambling With Fashion Fame Pyer Moss may be the hottest brand at New York Fashion week. So why in the world would Kerby Jean-Raymond, its designer, decide not to have a show?

Behavior matters....
Michelle Obama on fashion designers.
Just because you think you are great, entitled, and everything else, doesn't mean anyone will purchase your wears because you think so highly of yourself. This is in any business. Always remember, "someone is always listening and watching". Behavior Matters.

"During Obama's eight years as first lady, she became a powerful influence in fashion; she could wear a dress and it would sell out hours after she wore it.

Obama said she knew as a woman, her clothes would be dissected and mentioned no matter how weighty the topic she was talking about.

'I did know that my clothes were making a statement, I knew that was the case,' she said. 'So we decided why don't we use this platform to uplift some young new designers who normally wouldn't get this kind of attention, because you can change their lives, which is one of the reasons why we chose Jason Wu for my inaugural gown.'

She also said Wu didn't expect it, unlike some big designers who felt as if they should have the honor.

'You learn that there are people in this scene who feel entitled to these things because they've done it for a while, and I hated that feeling. There are whole lot of people out here who are trying to make it, there are young women and immigrants and black folk.'

Obama also said personal energy of a designer mattered.

'I didn't want to wear the clothes of someone who didn't have a good spirit, and you could hear these things, you could hear how they treated my staff or how they treated their works, so everyone I wore as far as I knew had a good spirit as well,' she said.

Michelle Obama appears in $4,000 glittery thigh-high Balenciaga boots Obama packed the the house at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, where Parker interviewed her about her new book, Becoming.

Diversity and inclusion is who you are and not what you do.

Fashion Has a Diversity Problem on the Business Side, Too BoF examined the 15 largest public companies in fashion and found that diversity is lacking at the highest levels of leadership.