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Lagos Fashion Week: Emmy Kasbit Wins the Prize
The Glow Up congratulates Nigerian fashion designer Emmanuel Okoro of Emmy Kasbit on his award-winning collection presented at 2018 Lagos Fashion Week, which concluded Sunday night. Lagos Fashion Week is an annual showcase in Nigeria for African designers, underwritten by Heineken. Twelve designers showed at the three-day event, providing a global showcase and the chance…
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Fashion Models Are Changing–and It’s About a Lot More Than Clothes
Is fashion really more inclusive? If you ask Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s first black editor-in-chief, the cover of the magazine’s May issue—featuring nine models “changing the face of fashion”—defines diversity. “Even five years ago—and certainly 10 or 20 years ago—if you were shooting a group cover like this, the girls would not have looked like…
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Pastel Makeup Trend: Do I Spring for It?
Trying makeup trends, at least once, is a lot of fun, but some makeup trends are a lot more difficult to pull off—I don’t care who you are. Pastel makeup is the latest trend for spring and, frankly, it scares me. Either I end up looking ashy because there’s not enough pigment in the makeup,…
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This Is Why We Can Have Nice Things: Wine Educator Larissa Dubose Raises a Glass to the Good Life
Want to sound like a genius while getting your drink on at a cocktail party? Wine educator Larissa Dubose is here to teach us everything we need to know about the art of ordering, buying and drinking wine. You can log on to this certified wine steward’s YouTube channel or visit her blog, the Lotus…
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Designer Agnes Baddoo Has It in the Bag
What’s the handbag that would give you life—if only you could find it? Agnes Baddoo answered that question for herself, and it became a business. Formerly a fashion stylist for Elle magazine, Baddoo cut her teeth on the international fashion circuit of New York, London and Paris in the ’90s. When The Glow Up caught…
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Virgil Abloh Takes the Reins at Louis Vuitton Menswear
Is there such a thing as “Black Man Magic”? If there isn’t, then someone needs to start that hashtag and pin it to Virgil Abloh, the designer of luxury-streetwear label Off-White. The 34-year old-Chicago native has done in five short years what it takes many a lifetime in the fashion business to achieve: create a…
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She Got Game: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Rookie Ebonee Davis Plays by Her Own Rules
For 25-year-old model Ebonee Davis, her breakout moment was a 2016 TED Talk titled “Black Girl Magic in the Fashion Industry.” This was not your typical advice on beauty or how to get into modeling but, rather, a scathing indictment of the fashion business and its soul-crushing standards of beauty with regard to black women.…
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A Recipe for Black Girl Magic: Nikia Phoenix Invites You to Brunch
Nikia Phoenix is the model, influencer and world traveler whose fresh, freckled face and cornrows enchanted us in the 23andMe commercial. You know the one: where she motorcycles and dune-buggies around the world, emerging from the waters in each new destination as if reborn in the newly found recognition of her DNA. True to the…
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Beauty Alert: Indulge, America! Score $50 Treatments During Spa Week!
Dying to try a cannabinoid-based beauty treatment or a rose-gold pedicure? How about a chemical peel or acupuncture without blowing your budget? Spa Week is April 16-22, and select spas nationwide will be offering a wide variety of treatments at $50. Bookings began March 19, so start thinking about what treatments you’d like to line…
