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4 Aug

Meet the Stylist Behind Beyoncé’s Epic Visual Album (VOGUE)

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CELEB, CULTURE, FASHION, MUSIC
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Zerina Akers is having a moment. The Maryland bred stylist has long been a familiar name to fashion insiders and members of the Beyhive, but her cultural impact has never been more evident. After six years of working with Beyoncé Knowles, curating the music legend’s wardrobe in music videos, Instagram posts, and on red carpets, last week she helped deliver Knowles’s magnum opus, Black is King. A bombastic trip through the star’s Lion King companion album, The Gift, and across the African continent, it serves as a showcase for both their talents. With more than a hundred different looks, each frame of the film overflows with fashion culled from runways, boutiques, designers yet to be discovered by the mainstream, and custom pieces Akers...
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17 Jul

Kaia Gerber and Cara Delevingne Attend a Black Lives Matter Protest Together (VOGUE)

by cometrend
CELEB, CULTURE
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Armed with millions of followers, many top models today are often harnessing their platform for good and to spread resources and information that touch on more pressing global issues. (Alongside photos of them modeling, of course). Kaia Gerber and Cara Delevingne took their activism offline yesterday and attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles together. The two friends attended a Black Lives Matter protest outside of the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, California. The gathering saw protestors unite to condemn Los Angeles County’s unwillingness to prosecute police brutality. Delevingne and Gerber were seen sharing an embrace in the crowd. Later on, they met up with friend and actor Margaret Qualley, who was also at the protest. Delevingne has been vocal about the BLM movement on...
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16 Jun

Charles Jeffrey’s London Fashion Week Livestream Raises Money for UK Black Pride (VOGUE)

by cometrend
CULTURE, EVENT, FASHION
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“Loverboy’s always been a happening, a place where people club together to do something great.” So says Charles Jeffrey, talking about how he was galvanized into action to raise money for UK Black Pride tonight. “I mean, that’s how it all started, at Vogue Fabrics [the East End venue owned by Lyall Hakaraia] when I was a student. I thought if I could do it then, I can do it now.” For London’s first digital fashion week Jeffrey had a virtual version of one of his exuberant party scenes planned, a teaser for the ‘top-up’ collection of t-shirts-and knits he went to huge lengths to put together in quarantine. But when the Black Lives Matter movement put anti-racism urgently in the forefront...
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