Soul Chic

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The African American Fashion Experience

As of late, the fashion media has been put under intense scrutiny over different headlines, features and terminology used to talk about black fashion – that is, blacks in fashion. As a black fashion journalist, I think that such scrutiny is absolutely necessary. Sometimes in this case, it seems as if the media gets it wrong. Growing up, if it weren’t for my grandmother’s collection of VOGUE Magazines that she’d been collecting since she was a little girl, I wouldn’t have known what haute couture was. As I matured into a teenager, a lot of my friends were into fashion, but they weren’t reading VOGUE or Harper’s Bazaar – they were looking at music videos and watching episodes of Soul Train. Read the rest here

As of late, the fashion media has been put under intense scrutiny over different headlines, features and terminology used to talk about black fashion – that is, blacks in fashion. As a black fashion journalist, I think that such scrutiny is absolutely necessary. Sometimes in this case, it seems as if the media gets it wrong.

Growing up, if it weren’t for my grandmother’s collection of VOGUE Magazines that she’d been collecting since she was a little girl, I wouldn’t have known what haute couture was. As I matured into a teenager, a lot of my friends were into fashion, but they weren’t reading VOGUE or Harper’s Bazaar – they were looking at music videos and watching episodes of Soul Train. Read the rest here