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Intimates
Gender-Neutral Brand TomboyX Creates Model Check-in Form
The series of questions are intended to help mitigate tensions around gender, race, special needs and any other triggers before production begins.
Fashion Features
Welcoming ‘The Age of the Amateur’ and Parting With Consumer Consumption
The trend forecaster discussed the need for greater diversity in the fashion industry and the increasing appreciation for more thoughtful and sustainable design among other subjects.
Fashion Scoops
First MFA Textiles Graduates at Parsons Are Multidisciplinary, Ready for New Challenges In and Out of Fashion
While the new-to-the-workforce candidates could work in fashion, they also have the skills to work in other industries.
Fashion Scoops
Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Tracy Reese to Address Harlem’s Fashion Row Event
Tracy Reese will be among the industry veterans addressing the 75 Black designers at the virtual retreat.
Business Features
Mirror, Mirror: Industry Players Look at Their Diversity Quotient
Industry giants from Ralph Lauren to Target discuss where they are now and where they need to go.
Designer and Luxury
Outside View: Black Unison — Voices of Stylists
Journalist and stylist Zadrian Smith speaks to Black stylists Jason Bolden, Kollin Carter and Calvin Opaleye about the race issue in Hollywood and the fashion industry.
Beauty Features
KNC Beauty Founder Launches Zoom School for Black Female Entrepreneurs
“We’ll be going over resources and giving advice from other female founders to women of color who want to start a business or are in the early stages of their business,” said Kristen Noel Crawley.
Business Features
Bridget Foley’s Diary: Views Through Fashion’s Diversity Looking Glass
WWD asks industry giants to self-reflect on diversity and inclusion.
Business Features
Mirror, Mirror: Holding Up a Looking Glass to Diversity in Fashion
Social justice has many facets. With equal employment opportunity in the forefront of discussion, industry giants hold up a looking glass to diversity within their companies.
Fashion Scoops
Boy Meets Girl Collaborates on Hoodies and T-shirts to Combat Racism
The line features Maxwell Hanson and Finnegan McKenna, two best friends from New York City.
People
Activism Through Art Form: Munroe Bergdorf
“I want society to recognize our humanity, to offer us opportunity, to keep us safe and encourage us to live authentically.”
People
Activism Through Art Form: Helen Harris
“To be poor is hard. To be Black is hard. To be queer is hard. To be all at once is a death sentence and that is not fair. I need the future to hold compassion and freedom and real happiness.”
People
Activism Through Art Form: Coco and Breezy
“It’s great to be highlighted during Pride, but I hope that people can recognize the talent on an everyday basis. I hope that the community will receive equal opportunities, especially when it is our story to tell.”
People
Activism Through Art Form: DeVonn Francis
“The fact of the matter is Black people have been the shapers and builders of so many important forms of dance, food, fashion and music, and it’s time to be properly credited and paid for that labor.”
Fashion Features
Confronting Change in Fashion
Protests against anti-Black racism and calls for systemic change target racialized and gendered social and economic class hierarchies.
