Fashion
Explore the Black designers and influencers who are reshaping fashion in every corner of the globe.
Sindiso Khumalo: Out of the Ashes
Storytelling is an important part of African culture. All throughout the continent, there are griots - repositories of oral traditions who keep history and culture alive through poems, music, songs, tales, and clothes. For fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo, her newest collection is a moment of storytelling worthy of the tradition.
Charles Harbison: Transformation, Rebirth, Re-Emergence
In 2016, Charles Harbison was everywhere. He was a favorite designer of Beyoncé, Solange and Michelle. He had been featured by coveted fashion magazines and was in the spotlight at New York Fashion Week. And then suddenly, he was gone, relocated from New York to Los Angeles, and placing the brand on an indefinite hiatus.
Prajjé Oscar: A Spirit of Duality
It is a tale of two sisters. One, the Rada Loa, Erzulie Fréda Dahomey, is the goddess of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, and flowers. The other is Erzulie Dantor, most senior of the Petro Loa and goddess of motherhood, credited as the spiritual inspiration to Haiti’s famed revolution. Opposites in nature and rivals for the love of Ogun, the two are traditionally depicted as enemies. But for his SS20 collection, Haitian-born designer Prajjé Oscar Jean-Baptiste, painted a different story.