Category: Fashion
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Technicolour stripes are the first sight to take in at the TikTok Show Space just off Bond Street where Labrum is showing their SS22 collection The Sound of Movement. As I move through the venue, my sense of smell is activated as a sweet scent wafts down the stairways leading to the Runway room. In the…
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Meet the 22-year-old Creative Director of Bylon, who uses fashion as a love letter to non-conformity
By Ife Oluwami If there was any kind of silver lining to an 18-month period of lockdowns and uncertainty, Brandon Chen found it. During one of the most turbulent times of 2020, BYLON apparel was born, a fashion brand created to provide accessible & non-gender binary garments to people of all sizes and races. The…
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![What went down at Black Fashion Week in collaboration with [@WegBara]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bfw-header-180x180.jpg)
By Lauren Dei What do you get when you mix an elite blend of black designers, a highly respected fashion institution championing equality across the industry, the UK’s premiere membership club for black women, and an upscale Central London venue fitted out for a full day of paradigm-shifting power-dressing? Cue Black Fashion Week, hosted by Weg Bara, the…
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By Jason Kwame It’s always refreshing when you come across a brand like Le Merj. These days, a black-owned, British clothing line with a unique and consistent brand story, dedicated to the true craft of fashion design (not just a mediocre print on a tee), organically going up the ranks is hard to come by.…
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By Melissa Wallace Fashion and music are expressive channels to show who we are. It is interesting to find that you can connect how people dress to the type of music they are into. Both have an immense influence on each other and have become ways of showing creativity, individuality, artistry, ideologies, and even political…
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![Your roundup of releases ft [@acoldwall], [@TRENDSLDN], [@placesplusfaces] + more](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/roundup-header-180x180.jpg)
Your roundup of the latest fashion and beauty releases. A-COLD-WALL* A-C-W* partnered with British brand Mackintosh for a selection of seven pieces that reinterpret Mackintosh codes through A-C-W* lens. The rich history of Mackintosh, who revolutionised outwear using new forms of waterproofing through rubberisation, is a fitting collaboration for A-C-W* who pushed the boundaries of…
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By Jason Kwame After a year hiatus, the Met Gala was back in full effect, and your faves wasted no time going all out for another legendary night of fashion and creativity. This year’s theme In America: A lexicon of Fashion and the two-part exhibitions for 2021 and 2022 celebrated all eras of USA style:…
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By Kadisha Kaur-Singh In a new modern world where cornrows and box braids are the latest fashion week trend; the rich history and the importance these hairstyles have had, and still continue to have, in Black culture has been blurred by Coachella Instagram posts and popularised by the Kardashians. Black-owned hair salons that specialise in…
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It’s guaranteed that if you compliment anyone other than a man on their outfit, they will excitedly point out, “it has pockets!!”. When buying from the women’s section, pockets are somewhat of a rarity. Perhaps, in the grand scheme of things, it may seem trivial for pockets to be such a focus of women’s inequality,…
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Getting dressed is likely the first thing you do each morning. It’s also likely that the first thing you say as you stare at the clothes bursting out your wardrobe is “I have nothing to wear”. We go shopping, we buy items with beautiful colours, prints and shapes to introduce some excitement into our wardrobes…