Fashion

MONTREAL WILL HOST ITS FIRST  EVER BLACK FASHION WEEK

MONTREAL WILL HOST ITS FIRST EVER BLACK FASHION WEEK

Montréal – After the success of Paris Black Fashion Week, the event created by Adama Paris is gonna happen in Montreal from May 15...
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Glamour creates iPad-based reality show

The ability to buy products strategically placed on television programs — a handbag clutched by the actress Blake Lively on “Gossip Girl” or a...
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Natalie Portman denounces Dior’s Galliano

The actress Natalie Portman, who has an endorsement contract with Dior for its Miss Dior Cherie fragrance, has strongly condemned its chief designer, John...
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Beyoncé in blackface sparks controversy

For its 90th-birthday issue, French magazine L'Officiel will feature Beyoncé in an African-themed photo shoot. In the shoot, which is a tribute to musician-activist...
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In Pictures: Vogue Italia celebrates Black History Month

Franca Sozzani, editor for Vogue Italia, continues to prove herself as a bastion of resistance to the racist image that Vogue has carved for...
The Black woman’s new look

The Black woman’s new look

"Naked woman, black woman. Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty!", reads the famous line from Leopold Senghor's...
Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng twists the tradition of Armani

Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng twists the tradition of Armani

Somerset House in England’s capital played host to the just ended bi-annual London Fashion Week, an opportunity for top designers from every corner of...
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Johnson Products Announces Winners of The Great Model Search®

Johnson Products Company (JPC), one of the nation's most trusted names in African American hair care, culminated two days of Hollywood-style events with the...
Vogue Paris versus Italian Vogue: Messages for Black people

Vogue Paris versus Italian Vogue: Messages for Black people

Rose Cordero has graced the cover of Vogue Paris. This is the first time in eight years, after the Ethiopian Liya Kedebe, that a...
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Princeton’s Model Memoirs literature class whips up hue and cry from Havard

Some intellectuals argue that models may be genetically gifted for putting on designer clothes and strutting their silhouettes down the catwalk, but they are...
London: Beauty pageant, scam, disenchantment

London: Beauty pageant, scam, disenchantment

The beauty pageant was supposed to be the most memorable day of their lives. Yet, for the bevy of beauties gathered here, their dream...
Miss Model of The World: A Franco-African wins the coveted title

Miss Model of The World: A Franco-African wins the coveted title

Last Thursday, 20 year old Emene Nyame was crowned Miss “Model of the World” She is one of the rare beauties to have won...
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Supermodel Daul Kim found hanged after posting web messages

Daul Kim, a South Korean supermodel who starred in a string of high-profile fashion campaigns, has been found dead at her luxury flat in...
FIMA 2009: The new international fashion trend will be African

FIMA 2009: The new international fashion trend will be African

The seventh edition of the International Festival of African Fashion (FIMA) 2009, ended Sunday in Niger. This latest edition focused on the professionalism and...
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Vogue France racist or artistic?

The latest issue of the French edition of Vogue magazine, "Special top-model," is the cause of a thunderous hue and cry over a racial...
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Neomie Lenoir: A graceful lesson

Widely known as a top model an actress and a mother, Noemie Lenoir reveals another facet of her personality, which is all about generosity...
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2010 «Fashion Ghosts» Spring-Summer Collection by Imane Ayissi

Imane Ayissi brings the question about the vitality or death of fashion to the fore as he launches his 2010 « Fashion Ghosts »...
Naomi Sims: The passing of a legendary primus inter pares, the queen mother of modern black beauty

Naomi Sims: The passing of a legendary primus inter pares, the queen mother of modern black beauty

Naomi Sims, one of the first African-American models to rise to fame in the United States in the 60’s, died last Saturday in Newark,...
Yves Saint Laurent’s ashes to be kept in Marrakech Morocco

Yves Saint Laurent’s ashes to be kept in Marrakech Morocco

The ashes of the late french international designer, 71 year old Yves Saint Laurent, who passed away Sunday evening in Paris, will be kept...
Katoucha assassinated ?

Katoucha assassinated ?

Crime or accident? Katoucha’s father and sister are not ruling out a criminal intent behind her death. To help clarify circumstances relating to Katoucha’s...
Katoucha, the ever present fighter

Katoucha, the ever present fighter

Emotions are still running amok after Katoucha’s body was discovered floating on the seine last Thursday. Fashion personalities in both Africa and the diaspora...
Katoucha is really dead

Katoucha is really dead

“She fell into the seine river and drowned right on the spot... her body bore no suspicious marks", indicated sources close to the police...
Katoucha’s body found?

Katoucha’s body found?

Katoucha Niane’s body may have been found at last. Her mysterious disappearence almost a month ago raised lots of suspicions. Among them, a theory...