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This Black Model Might Be The Face Of 2025 Met Gala, But Still Has a Regular Job to Make Ends Meet
The Sad But Relatable Reason Naomi Campbell Might Skip This Year’s Met Gala Red Carpet
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Why Michael B. Jordan’s ‘COOGI’ Sweater Was a Scene Stealer in ‘Sinners’
Fashion Icon Andre Leon Talley’s Best Style Statements
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Read My Lips: LâOrĂ©al x Balmain Is the Budget-Friendly Designer Collab of the Season
Itâs safe to say that 2017 was a big year for fashionâs golden boy, Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain and Instagram impressario. At the tender age of 32, this year has marked his sixth at the helm of the French luxury label, and it was his biggest to date. Since June, Rousteing has overseen…
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Letâs Get Our Skin Tight in Time for the New Year With Hanacure!Â
New Yearâs Eve is the last day of beauty for the year, and I plan to make it a good one. I donât know about you, but the holidays are hard on my skin-care habits. âJingle Bellsâ are the death knell for my exercise routine; I eat whatever I want; I stay up late binge-watching…
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To Be Real: Dressing My Way out of âButch Envyâ
In the summer of â98, I lived in Harlem. Thereâs a longer story behind how a Midwest-raised black tomboi found herself in the Big Apple, but the short version is that technically, I was homeless, so my best friend offered me a place to stay until I started undergrad that fall. For most of my…
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The Hair Hits the Tour: Behind the Velvet Rope With Cassidy Blaine
âIâm likeâthatâs Janet Jackson! I do the cabbage patch and everything every time I see her!â So says Cassidy Blaine, whoâs been turning out sick-ass hairstyles for Miss Jackson (if youâre nasty) and her touring crew for the last decade. And we canât blame her; Jackson is indisputably an icon. You know it, and we…
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The Best Gifts Come Unwrapped This Holiday: Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 4
âNo matter how uncomfortable, how intense or how inconvenient your feelings are, facing your emotions, feeling them and accepting them for what they are is the best way to heal yourself and live a more balanced and peaceful life.â âAletheia Luna Signs of the holiday season had barely rolled around before I began experiencing the…
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#BlackBoyJoy: The #CastMeJCrew Grand Prize Goes to 4-Year-Old Cayden!
Watch out, world! In what might be the best holiday present ever, the dapper and diminutive Cayden (aka @cayden_style on Instagram) beat out all other contenders for the grand prize in J.Crewâs inaugural #CastMeJCrew contestâa campaign notably started by a hashtag from Elle Fashion Features Director Nikki Ogunnaike. Cayden, who just started pre-K this fall,…
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Wonder Woman: Happy Birthday, Flo-Jo!
The track and field and fashion phenomenon Florence Griffith Joynerâfondly known as Flo-Joâwould have been 58 years strong today, and undoubtedly still slaying us with her inimitable style. Long before Serena Williams stunned in her on-court ensembles or Ibtihaj Muhammad stayed true to herself and her sport in hijab, Flo-Jo was showing the world what…
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There Is Hope for Depression This Holiday Season
Iâll never forget the day I got the phone call that one of my closest friends for 20 yearsâa beautiful young wife and motherâhad suddenly and inexplicably taken her life. Her depression, which had gone undiagnosed by doctors and unrecognized by those of us who knew her well and loved her dearly, just became too…
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Traveling Light: Do You Know How to Pack Like a Pro?
True story: Iâve been more or less living out of a suitcase for the past 20 years. Actually, maybe more: As a child of divorced parents living in different states, I began boarding planes on my own at age 6 and remember well the annual ritual of packing for a full summer at my fatherâs…
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For Colored Girls … Who Need to Talk About Colorism
How do you feel about this film? Or, perhaps a better question is: How does this film make you feel? Iâm going to be honest: When I saw this film, Marian Eduseiâs Dark Skinned Girls, on Dazed, I felt a mixture of horror, wonder, disappointment, disgust, confusion, intrigue, envy and amusementâperhaps in that order. But,…