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Dancing Through the Pain: 'A Mother's Rite' Moves Us Through a Parent's Worst Nightmare
When we think of ballet, we may think of tutus and pointe shoes, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake—and hopefully, of Misty Copeland and the other rare black ballerinas who have risen to prominence in the genre. But while we celebrate the accomplishment of seeing black and brown faces take center stage, rarely do we consider…
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'I Did It and So Can You': OWN's Star Entrepreneur Mahisha Dellinger Wants You to Mind Your Business
Mahisha Dellinger is a study in self-sufficiency. Growing up in the Sacramento, California neighborhood of Meadowview, dubbed “Danger Island” due to its high rates of crime, Dellinger learned early on how to take care of herself. With her mother often working and her older brother entangled in gang culture, Dellinger decided her own destiny early…
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Time Traveling: For BlacKkKlansman, Costume Designer Marci Rodgers Took a Full Circle Journey
If you ask Marci Rodgers how she became a costume designer, her answer is simple: “God.” To the believers, it’s a perfectly credible answer, while the more spiritually skeptical might raise an eyebrow. But there is something undeniably divine in Rodger’s career trajectory, which began as a style-obsessed teenager in Evanston, Ill., just north of…
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Oh, the Irony: Ivanka Trump's Makeup Artist Is … a Mexican Immigrant?
Here’s a study in “cognitive dissonance.” Style site Refinery29 recently revealed a very interesting and ironic fun fact about devoted first daughter and right-wing beauty icon, Ivanka Trump: her longtime makeup artist, Alexa Rodulfo, is a Mexican immigrant. Yes, you read that right. Already a beauty entrepreneur in her native Juarez, Mexico, in 2005, Rodulfo…
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'Sadly, It Did Not Make the Mark': André Leon Talley Critiques Paul Manafort's 'Wearable Art'
Real talk: When I grow up, I want to be the type of grande dame fashion editor who wears caftans while holding court on a chaise on some impossibly elegant veranda somewhere, tossing off witty observations and pithy quips. (Who am I kidding? I’m doing that right now—minus the veranda and chaise. Okay, so just…
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This Is How We Do It: Essence's September Issue—Starring Naomi!—Is a Study in Black Excellence
Leave it to Essence to remind us what black excellence looks like on both sides of the camera. Making their contribution to a season of intense black girl magic—where we are covering a full 50 percent of the 2018 fall fashion issues—the legendary black women’s magazine shows us exactly how excellent a product by a…
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'I Really Stepped Into Myself': Lena Waithe Says Cutting Her Hair Liberated Her from Gender Norms
Lena Waithe doesn’t owe anyone an explanation for who she is, how she loves or why she cut her famous locs last month; but the writer, actress and producer graciously gave one to Vanity Fair’s cameras while on the red carpet for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Grants Banquet on Thursday night. After joking that…
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We Have September Issues: Black Women Are Covering Magazines, But Who's Behind the Lens?
A funny thing happened while we were basking in the glow of cover after cover of fashion magazines featuring black faces this September: We came across an absolutely gorgeous cover of Issa Rae on Ebony’s Fall Fashion Issue. Stunning in a black tulle Vera Wang ballgown while striking a ballerina’s pose, Rae was the epitome…
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This Is Not a Drill: Love Meghan Markle's Club Monaco Dress? It's Being Restocked Friday Morning
Obsessed with Meghan Markle’s royal style, but don’t have a million-dollar clothing budget? Here’s your chance to play twinsies with the Duchess of Sussex (if you’re into that kind of thing)—without breaking the bank. After Markle wore the $328 “Shoanah” shirtdress to the wedding of Prince Harry’s pal Charlie Straubenzee last Saturday (which also happened…