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This Black Model May Have Broken Cannes’ Strict No-Nudity Dress Code, But Her Outfit is Turning Every Head…
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Was There a Bright Side to Playing Catwoman? Halle Berry Found It
In 2002, Halle Berry made Academy Awards history by becoming the first black woman to win a best actress award for her role in Monster’s Ball. A year later, she made the dubious decision to follow up that performance with the title role in Catwoman—a potentially career-ending choice for the actress. But as she told…
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The Fire This Time: Tracee Ellis Ross Speaks on the Power of Female Fury
Death by a thousand cuts. A thousand micro (and macro) aggressions, a thousand dismissals, a thousand violations, both overt and oblivious. A thousand subtle—and not-so-subtle—ways in which women all over the world are told they don’t matter, that our bodies, autonomy and feelings don’t matter. And not only do we not matter or have the…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Time for Ilhan Reminds Us That Hope Can Make History
In 1993 I left my birthplace of Minneapolis, seeking a hopefully glamorous future in New York City. Two years later, a 12-year-old Ilhan Omar and her family sought out Minneapolis as the site for their future, after spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp and escaping war in their native Somalia. They weren’t alone;…
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Virgil Abloh x Ikea: A Side of Street Cred With Those Swedish Meatballs
Virgil Abloh strikes again—the Louis Vuitton menswear designer will be working with Swedish furniture-maker Ikea and will offer us a glimpse inside his design process for the collaboration. Abloh will be broadcasting live on Ikea Today on April 30 at 5:30 p.m. ET. Why should we care? Abloh has blazed a path straight into the…
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She’s a Savage: There’s Even More to Love About Rihanna’s New Lingerie Line
At this point, we may as well just add Rihanna as a co-signer on our bank accounts, because she’s clearly intent on draining them. Ever since we heard that our favorite bad girl had a lingerie line in the works, we’ve been excited, to say the least (we hear Rihanna has that effect on people).…
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My Lunch With André Leon Talley
My longtime friend and mentor André Leon Talley stars in The Gospel According to André, a documentary premiering Wednesday night at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicling his rise and 48-year reign as one of the most venerable fashion editors of all time. “André, what’s important to you now?” I ask over lunch at Majorelle in…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: There’s No Redemption Song in The Rachel Divide
I spent 100 minutes with Rachel Dolezal Tuesday night, and I still don’t know who she is. Frankly, I’m still not convinced she does, either, though she continues to declare otherwise. But surprisingly, I’m not asking for my 100 minutes back. I was admittedly none too thrilled by the prospect of providing Dolezal yet another…
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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: How Naomi Wadler Disrupted the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
Anyone who thinks children should be seen and not heard has clearly never heard of Naomi Wadler. The 11-year-old blew millions of minds when she appeared onstage at last month’s March for Our Lives “to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t…
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Black Designers Rise to the Top 10 of Global Luxury Brands
Luxury fashion was once a magical realm where black designers rarely held a place at court, let alone reigned among the kings and queens of fashion. Today, global fashion search platform Lyst, in partnership with the Business of Fashion—an online news organization widely regarded as the first and last word on breaking news and finance…
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Melania Trump Wore a White-Lady Beyoncé ‘Formation’ Hat
Black people call them hats. Seasoned black women call them crowns. White people call them chapeaux. Whatever your pick, on Tuesday, first lady Melania Trump donned what looked like a cross between an Easter Sunday hat made famous by mint-candy-carrying black women who can barely shuffle but will praise-dance you under the pew and a…