Category: Fashion
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by Edward Hartley Last season was the “winter of our discontent”. Plagues ravaged the land as the wealthy lorded over a desperate population. Society destabilised and shadowy oligarchies grew in influence, eclipsing the power of governments. Popular revolt raged in our cities, suppressed by authorities high on impunity. No, this isn’t the Black Death and…
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Heavily inspired by Y2K fashion, Destiny had a child pays homage to Tina Knowles’dressmaking through the 2000s. The music group Destiny’s Child had many memorable outfits during their career which Tina Knowles had a significant hand in, with anexcellent eye for making Beyonce and her peers look unified. Stylist and Creative Director Kenya Lendo represents…
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Meet Rukiat Ashawe, an award-winning sex educator, writer, speaker and content creator who is actively changing what sex education means and looks like today. Rukiat’s focus in sex education primarily deals with STIs, arising from her own personal experience with Herpes, “It was something that I was very much ashamed of” she tells me. However,…
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From being in the works since summer last year, the Karl Lagerfeld and Kenneth Ize collaboration is finally here. The partnership between Nigerian-Austrian designer Kenneth Ize and the late Karl Lagerfeld’s eponymous label is significant for a few reasons – a key one being that Ize is the first Black designer to collaborate with Karl…
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Continuing a strong line up of collaborations, UNIQLO recently announced a partnership with Flock Together, a birdwatching collective for young people people of colour, in new campaign “Take Flight”. Celebrating the innovation of UNIQLO’s AIRism line, that priorities comfort and functionality, using moisture wicking technology to keep the skin dry and cool, UNIQLO’s collaboration with…
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AGR is the brainchild of founder Alicia Robinson, who’s colourful and rejuvenating takes on knitwear techniques and materials elevates knitwear’s reputation from something that brings to mind your grandma, instead giving it a cool and contemporary lease of life. For AGR SS22, the brand pulls on inspiration from a range of rich sources to create…
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by Elsie Cullen On April the 9th, La Soufrière volcano in St.Vincent and the Grenadines began erupting, displacing thousands of people across the island. Since then, we’ve witnessed the incredible efforts of creatives, both on the island and across the diaspora, coming together to help create change. In this interview we speak to Karen DeFreitas…
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On the 12th June, we collaborated with Reuben Selby to give seven creatives the opportunity to go behind the scenes at their SS22 London Fashion Week show. Read on to see what they got up to and what they had to say…. “Since his design debut in Paris late last year, Reuben Selby has only…
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Words by Jason Kwame One of our favourites, Daily Paper, have done it again. The Amsterdam brand has finally brought its fusion of African and European style to London town, with a flagship in the heart of Central London. Set to launch to the public this Saturday 19th June, the enormous, two floor building in…
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Rav Matharu’s streetwear brand clothsurgeon is set to drop a capsule in partnership with Sports Direct. The four-piece collection will be released in line with the first game of the 2021 UEFA European Football Championship. The limited-edition capsule was designed at the clothsurgeon atelier in East-London, fusing the brands tailored streetwear aesthetic with upcycled women’s…