Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
Chanel Iman & Jourdann Dunn are the most demanded models of color in today’s fashion shows | Wire.
BET raises awareness to the lack of Black Models in the fashion industry tonight with the BET News Special: Fashion Blackout:
BET News takes an inside look at one of fashion’s industry’s lasting weaknesses: The lack of Black models at major fashion shows and ad campaigns. Across the globe, as the runways fade to white, we have to ask ourselves, “Has Black become unfashionable?”
Top Black style-makers will pull no punches as they expose their industry’s dirty little secret: racism by some of the top names in fashion. Bethann Hardison, Naomi Campbell, Andre Leon Talley, Tracy Reese Liya Kebede, Iman and others give the lowdown on the lack of Black images in high fashion.
According to Targetmarket News.com Black women in the United States spend more than $20 billion on apparel each year. However, the runways, magazine spreads and the image/beauty industry at large is increasingly ignoring their buying power and their existence, choosing instead to market an eastern-European form of beauty as the standard. At the spring 2008 collections at Fashion Week in September 2007 in New York, the runways were dominated by white faces. In fact, Black faces were more absent from the runways than some fashion insiders have seen since the ‘60s. READ MORE
Vogue Italia plans to push the change, releasing its July issue with only non-white models. Be sure to catch BET’s special tonight @ 8:30 p.m ET/PT when they go behind the scenes of New York fashion Week…
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Friday, May 23, 2008 |
The 2009 Resort runway presentation for Chanel took place last week in Miami, and one of the most talked about items coming from the show were these the pistol-heeled shoes a few models had to strut in. Designers have been becoming more innovative with footwear lately and I love it!
Designer Karl Lagerfeld was inspired by an image of a gun he saw somewhere, and gave the image to Chanel’s shoe designer Laurence Decade, who used plexi to make the “Miami Vice” shoe. Ladies would you rock it?
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
Vivica at Fall 2008 Paris Fashion Week (Splash)
Vivica A. Fox is set to host a new VH1 reality series titled GLAM GOD with VIVICA A. FOX, which searches for the next celebrity stylist:
With Vivica A. Fox as host, she will be looking for the stylist who has the vision to pull together a complete look – whether it be for the carpet or an everyday event.
GLAM GOD with VIVICA A. FOX, will showcase 20 stylists as they compete head-to-head for $100,000, the chance to style an A-List celebrity and the title of GLAM GOD.
This competition reality show is open to stylists of ALL types and skill levels as long as you think you have what it takes to be the next guru to the stars just like Robert Verdi, Phillip Bloch or Rachel Zoe. SOURCE
No word on when the show will premiere but, its currently filming now. Auditions for the show were held March and April…
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Monday, May 12, 2008 |
Jourdann Dunn | Style.com
Its been a while since we’ve seen a ebony sista modeling on the cover of a fashion magazine. However, Italia Vogue is looking to change that - their July issue will have no white models and in-demand 17 yr. old model Jourdann Dunn will be the covergirl:
An industry source has confirmed to VOGUE.COM that the whisperers are accurate and that Steven Meisel has indeed shot an entire issue featuring black models, in a bid to encourage other magazines to diversify.
Naomi Campbell has always been outspoken about racism in fashion and 17-year-old Dunn, who was famously scouted in the Hammersmith branch of Primark in London, recently added her voice to the debate.
“London’s not a white city so why should all our castings be white? I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around and there’s just me and maybe one other coloured face,” she told the Evening Standard. “They just don’t get picked. I hope it’s because the designer just didn’t think they were good enough as a model but I don’t know.” SOURCE
I look forward to this issue, and hopefully it will lead some type of change…
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
( Scan via: Urban-Hoopla/US Weekly )
A recent issue of US Weekly reveals the sketches Alicia Keys worked on with her favorite designer Giorgio Armani. Armani was handpicked to design costumes for her As I Am tour, which is currently taking place in Europe.
Alicia, who expressed that “It was an incredible collaborative process” when working with the famed designer, picked the three outfits above, which you see her rocking in pictures here. Armani was so inspired working for her, that he created “The Alicia Jean”…
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
Oprah’s new store in Chicago
If Oprah was missing something, it sure was a retail chain. The Oprah Store last week near Harpo Studios on Chicago’s near West Side, where you can cop many of her beloved “favorite things”.
The store is said to sell everything from $13 cosmetic bags decorated with pastel O’s to “a pair of Gianfranco Ferré brown crocodile ankle boots worth $300, taken directly from Oprah’s closet.
And word is, this store opening is only the beginning:
Steven Keith Platt, director of the Platt Retail Institute, suggests that this may only be the beginning for Winfrey’s plunge into retail. “If the clothing lines take off, look for more stores and a licensing deal with the likes of Target, JC Penney, etc.,” says Platt. “Oprah Winfrey is an American icon. If she puts her name on an apparel line, it will be huge- way beyond her own stores. If Martha Stewart can make it big at Kmart, [there] is no denying that our girl Oprah can.” SOURCE
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