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1 month ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Courtesy of Yodit Tewolde/Emmy’s Past to Present: Bridging Generations in Fashion is a Women’s History Month series focusing on disruptors who have made significant contributions to fashion and the culture at large. Yodit Tewolde, the stylish lawyer-turned-judge, is beginning to embrace color in her wardrobe.
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1 month ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
The most anticipated series of shows of the season has come to an end, Paris Fashion Week. And over its course, we’ve seen a heap of style moments unfold before our eyes—for some of us, it’s at the shows themselves, for most of us, it’s been through our phones. But I can’t help thinking about how celebrity-centric these weeks have become.
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1 month ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Daniele Oberrauch/Gorunway.com Artists constantly take us on a journey into their minds, where their inspiration can be as random as a tree branch they saw in their parents’ backyard, as highbrow as a recent 19th-century romance novel, or as personal as their upbringing.
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1 month ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
“It’s dull, dull, dull,” said the late André Leon Talley of Milan Fashion Week in a 1998 interview with Videofashion. In his own words, “you can go to a week of shows in a city like Milan and you sit there and you want to, like, jump off the ledge until you get to Gucci.” Italian fashion, like Italian culture, is fairly conservative compared with the rest of the fashion capitals, save for brands like Moschino, Versace, and Roberto Cavalli, where more is more.
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1 month ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Getty Images Arbiters Of Style: Trailblazers In Fashion is a new series that pinpoints innovative and established leaders in the fashion world, spotlighting their contributions to sustainability, technology, cultural influence, and more.
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1 month ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Tolu Coker It’s no secret that Black British designers are leading the way for those looking across the African diaspora for direction. That’s needed and makes for stimulating work, but it can lack a more pointed sense of cultural history without a strong compass or firm grounding.
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2 months ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Getty Images/ESSENCE Sports and fashion happen in groups. By its very nature, a league comprises several teams within a given sport, and clothes become fashionable when multiple people adopt a style. Both are intensely social activities, facilitating a kind of camaraderie for men, especially Black men.
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2 months ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Few Black designers in the West bear the weight and good fortune of continuing their family’s legacy in the business. Charlie Casely-Hayford is one of them. He follows in his father’s footsteps, the late Joe Casely-Hayford, a London tailor whose approach was steeped in heritage and modernity. Joe’s designs had the precision of Savile Row haberdashery and the creativity that has been thriving in London for decades.
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2 months ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
Few Black designers in the West bear the weight and good fortune of continuing their family’s legacy in the business. Charlie Casely-Hayford is one of them. He follows in his father’s footsteps, the late Joe Casely-Hayford, a London tailor whose approach was steeped in heritage and modernity. Joe’s designs had the precision of Savile Row haberdashery and the creativity that has been thriving in London for decades.
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2 months ago | 
essence.com | Julian Randall
ESSENCE/Getty Images Menswear is divided into two or three worlds. Streetwear is arguably the most populated despite some observers’ curious proclamations of its deadness. You have the sartorialists, who herald the bi-annual Pitti Uomo as the most noteworthy event for men’s fashion, where “proper” menswear business gets done.
