Mar 11, 2024 | Design, Fashion, Higher Education
D’Wayne Edwards never set out to be a designer or an educator, and encountered a number of what seemed at the time like closed doors (like not being able to go to college or having awards rescinded) throughout his life. But somehow, these roadblocks...
Sep 11, 2023 | Design, Entertainment, Leadership
The actress and TV personality has teamed up with UPS to highlight three emerging HBCU alumni designers in a joint NYFW show titled: BIG MOTION La La Anthony is all about amplifying Black excellence. The actress and TV personality, 41, is teaming up with UPS...
Dec 19, 2022 | Design, Film, Women
Ruth E. Carter made history with Black Panther. The celebrated costume designer helped bring the nation of Wakanda to life in 2018, blending superhero spectacle with real-life African tradition. Her innovative, Afrofuturist vision nabbed her the...
Jun 6, 2022 | Business, Creativity, Design
Paul Aarrington started as an intern at RCA Records with aspirations to work in the music business. Shortly after, he felt unsatisfied and decided to start his own fashion line, PAUL AARRINGTON, INC. The company was established in 1996, and his designs started...
Feb 7, 2022 | Business, Design, Diversity
Today, 3% of professional designers identify as Black. Compare this figure to the 13% population estimate for African Americans from the most recent U.S. Census. We observe a broken mirror. Demographers estimate that by 2045, the collective BIPOC ethnic group will...
Jan 11, 2021 | Art, Design, History
Only one item from Richmond was chosen for the Virginia Association of Museum’s “Top 10 Endangered Artifacts” program: a dress from the early 1900s made by a Black business owner. The designer, Fannie Criss Payne, was a Black business owner and Richmond’s premier...
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