Black lives matter news and archive

Target to invest 2 billion dollars in Black-owned businesses

American retailer corporation Target has announced a commitment to spend more than 2 billion dollars in Black-owned businesses by 2025. Target will add products from more than 500 Black-owned businesses across its multi-category assortment in stores and online, as well as increased spending in Black-owned companies, such as marketing agencies,...

8 Apr 2021

Business

Graduate Fashion Foundation launches Black Excellence Prize

Graduate Fashion Foundation is evolving its partnership with Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) to launch a new prize that will highlight Black excellence in the fashion industry. The aim of the Black Excellence Prize is to amplifying Black creativity, explains the Graduate Fashion Foundation in a statement, while also inspiring all...

7 Apr 2021

Podcast

Part 2 of 3: A conversation on PR's role in racism in fashion

Podcast Fashion: No Filter hosts guest editor Henrietta Gallina discusses PR's role in society's current climate in the second of three part series. One of the ripple effects from the rise of the Black Lives Matters has been a rally cry for the fashion industry to end systemic racism. In this edition Henrietta speaks with Jordan Mitchell, the...

12 Mar 2021

Podcast

Part 1 of 3: A conversation of race & fashion

Part one of three, the podcast Fashion: No Filter gives the mic to Henrietta Gallina, an advocate, creative director and co-host of popular podcast 'The Conversations', who shall be leading the discussion throughout the series. In this edition of the series, Henrietta sits down with digital creator Tamu McPherson, and BET Style Director Danielle...

10 Mar 2021

Fashion

Milan fashion week: Black Lives Matter designers make history

Last minute touches on a frilly white dress, a final coat of powder and it's showtime for the Black Lives Matter-inspired collective making history at Milan Fashion Week. After a years-long battle to improve diversity on the Italian catwalks, a group of five black designers made their on-schedule debut Wednesday by opening the women's...

24 Feb 2021

People

Tom Ford says old fashion system was effective, and will return

“The fashion system is driven by the consumer,” Tom Ford told Vanessa Friedman of theNew York Timeson Instagram Live, five days ahead of his NYFW show. He doubts that anything will come of murmurs that designers could forego precollections and do only two collections a year. “We have trained the consumer to think there is something new every...

18 Feb 2021

Fashion

Tommy Hilfiger announces key partnerships to drive minority representation

Tommy Hilfiger has announced key partnerships with its People’s Place Program to champion Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) in fashion to advance underrepresented communities. The American fashion brand, owned by PVH Corp., said the first of its partnerships will see it joining forces with Harlem’s Fashion Row and The Fashion and...

10 Feb 2021

Fashion

Diversity for a new decade, key dos and don'ts for brands

With protests against police brutality having occurred this summer in fifty states and in twenty countries, and in which, according to theNY Times, between 15 and 26 million Americans participated, equality is a global mandate. No brand has the luxury of remaining on the sidelines on this issue or they will face serious repercussions. This is...

17 Nov 2020

Video

Video: Black fashion pros discuss changes in fashion following Black Lives Matter movement

This panel discussion presented by ShowStudio creatives discuss their experiences being black in the fashion industry. Model Trey Trey along with make-up artist Crystabel Riley, stylist KK Obi and fashion journalists Eni Subair and Dominic Cadogan meet virtually in this 55-minute conversation. Each one of these fashion pros share personal...

30 Oct 2020

Fairs

Fashion's past and present collide in the Met's newest exhibition

Whether by repetition, rupture or reinvention, fashion has always maintained a complex relationship to time, a link New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is exploring in a new exhibition opening Thursday. The show, delayed for months by the pandemic, was also tweaked last minute to take into account the Black Lives Matter movement that...

28 Oct 2020

Video

Video: Nike celebrates LA Lakers' championship with #YouCantStopLA campaign

In Nike's most recent campaign video the American sportswear brand celebrates this year's NBA Championship winner: the LA Lakers. Nike states in the minute-long film "Because we've lost so much, this win means so much more," referencing the global pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the death of Kobe Bryant. This isn't the first time Nike has...

21 Oct 2020

Fashion

Gap supports Black History Month with T-shirt collaboration

Gap is following up its commitments to standing united with the Black Lives Matter movement in June by supporting Black History Month with a collection of collaborative T-shirts. The collection features four Black artists from the UK, France, and the USA, including Melissa Hurst from London, Lo Williams from Birmingham, Mario Hounkanrin from...

5 Oct 2020