Balenciaga Deletes All References to Kanye West and Ye With Few Words but Bold Actions
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Valentino Was Woke Before Naming Zendaya As New Brand Face
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Piccioli’s relationship with Black models is at the top of luxury fashion houses. In his spectacular January 2019 couture show, the creative director and designer featured a dominating majority Black models extravaganza, reflecting a historic commitment to Black model representation. Vanessa Friedman reported that of 65 models, 45 were Black.
“As a designer I have a voice,” Piccioli said in the moment. “Hopefully a loud one. I want to use it.”
Read MoreJohn Edmonds' 'The Custom of the Country' for Vogue US September 2020
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John Edmonds' 'The Custom of the Country' for Vogue US September 2020
The September 2020 issue of American Vogue is out. AOC’s in-depth focus on cover artists Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Easteel will be finished today. This moment, we share ‘The Custom of the Country’ a fashion story styled by Carlos Mazario and featuring a wide-range of fashion industry luxury brands.
Photographer John Edmonds captures Alek Wek, Akon Changkou, and Toni Smith in a leisurely game of cards and a glass of champagne. Who knows — perhaps they are members of US Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’ Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, celebrating their sorority sister’s new national stage trajectory.
Make no mistake, if these women are AKAs, they are not ladies of leisure, but a force to be reckoned with. Read a July 2019 New York Times politics feature Kamala Harris’ Secret Weapon: The Sisterhood of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Pyer Moss by Kerby Jean-Raymond Covers Blanc Magazine Winter 2020
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Pyer Moss by Kerby Jean-Raymond Covers Blanc Magazine Winter 2020
Pyer Moss was founded in 2013 by Haitian-American, New York-born fashion designer Kerby Jean-Raymond, who describes his brand as an “art project” or “a timely social experiment” at times. Pyer Moss aims to use its voice and platform to challenge social narratives and evoke dialogue. The Pyer Moss collections are produced in New York City, Italy and Portugal.
In September 2018, Pyer Moss invited Fashion Week to Weeksville, the historic black neighborhood in Brooklyn, Pyer Moss showed the second installment of the designer’s “American, Also” series, a three-part series of collections addressing the erasure of African American narratives in popular culture to critical acclaim. Vogue called the show “the best of the season”.
In mid-2019 Jean-Raymond became a “thought partner” as artistic director of Reebok Studies.
In this special Blanc Magazine Winter 2020 Blanc Magazine cover story, models Faith Jaggernauth and Lang Jobe are lensed by photographers Teneshia Carr and Vanessa Zican Feng. / Makeup by Christyna Kay
Blanc Magazine sends a message that resonates on this Martin Luther King Day .
