From the Harlem Renaissance to Virgil Abloh’s colorful runway, Black designers have created the foundation for fashion. But ...

With over 10 years between them, designers LaQuan Smith, Sergio Hudson and Christopher John Rogers continue to rise in the American fashion industry talent pool. Each is contemporizing ready-to-wear ...

Introduction / Elizabeth Way -- Section I: Anonymous Histories. The Fabric of Fast Fashion: Enslaved Wearers and Makers as Designers in the American Fashion System / Katie Knowles -- Liberty's Warp, ...

From the pioneers of the 1980s to today’s vanguard, ESSENCE celebrates 55 years of style and the designers shaping fashion’s ...

With his distinct design aesthetic, which blended delicate draping with structured, linear silhouettes, Jay Jaxon stands out as a fashion industry innovator. Though he remains an obscure figure in ...

On a cold, humid Tuesday night on Chelsea's far west side, near the fog-shrouded Hudson River, five fashion designers from the Black & Positively Golden® Change of Fashion program sent new collections ...

At Pratt Manhattan Gallery on 14th street, a celebration of Black designers and creatives rises to honor the work of generations. “Black Dress II: Homage” explores the history of American fashion, ...

The limited edition collection officially drops on Feb. 14. Just in time for Black History Month, Gap and Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) have teamed up to deliver a striking 16-piece capsule collection ...

"The People's Runway," was the first-of-its-kind collaboration between Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and ...

Womenswear label Proenza Schouler has appointed Rachel Scott, a Jamaica-born designer and founder of Diotoma, as its new ...

We’ve reached the point in the year where the preliminary official CFDA New York Fashion Week calendar has been revealed. To experience NYFW is to immerse yourself in the non-stop energy that the city ...

Black jewelers reflected on the racial justice movement, and on how a wave of support that pushed them forward since 2020 has shifted. By Melanie Grant The jewelry designer Lola Oladunjoye remembers ...