fashion
Best Dressed Black Women: 2026 Critics Choice Awards
The 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar transformed the industrial space into a high-fashion epicenter on January 4th. This evening marked a definitive shift in the 2026 awards cycle, moving the conversation toward high-stakes aesthetic choices and experimental silhouettes. The women of Black cinema and television arrived with a clear sense […]
Anok Yai: Crowned Model of the Year, Defining the New Global Icon
The Coronation of Anok Yai If the fashion industry has a throne, Anok Yai just ascended the steps and took her seat. As of this week, December 2025, the South Sudanese-American supermodel is the most talked-about face in luxury style. On Monday night at the British Fashion Awards, the industry’s equivalent of the Oscars, she […]
Are Box Braids Still Braids? When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Exploitation
You see it everywhere. On runways, in music videos, on your favorite reality TV stars. Box braids, Fulani cornrows, Bantu knots, hairstyles with deep roots in the African diaspora are having a “moment.” Again. For many of us, this sight is a complex cocktail of pride and frustration. There’s a sense of, “Finally, the world sees […]
Ayra Starr: The Gen Z Powerhouse
When Sarah Oyinkansola Aderibigbe, who is widely celebrated as Ayra Starr, takes the stage, the world can’t help but listen. With her enchanting, “silky yet sturdy” voice, bold fashion choices, and an unapologetic spirit, the 23-year-old Nigerian sensation has emerged as one of Afropop’s most radiant stars. Bursting onto the scene with her debut EP, […]
A Fabric Born of Exchange
In the kaleidoscope of African fashion, few textiles command attention like the kitenge. With its vibrant patterns, complex symbolism, and cultural versatility, this cotton fabric has journeyed from a simple cloth to a statement of identity, resistance, and celebration across East and Central Africa, and now, the world. The kitenge’s roots lie in a history […]
Fashion Was Never Just Fashion
Fashion has long been misunderstood as something superficial, a world of catwalks, celebrities, and fleeting trends. But anyone who has truly studied fashion, even briefly, knows it is one of the most powerful forces in human culture. It is a language, a political act, a mirror of society, and an expression of identity, all wrapped […]
Put It On Anyway
I don’t know who told you you needed permission to wear that dress. To buy that coat. To try the red lip, the wide-brim hat, the boots that make a little noise when you walk into a room. Maybe they didn’t say it with words, but you felt it, the look, the pause the side […]