Black stylists have come together to form a fashion and beauty collective
Pictured: Fashion stylist Kollin Carter, ESSENCE Fashion Director Marielle Bobo, ESSENCE Chief Content and Creative Officer Moana Luu and Law Roach
Three major celebrity stylists and makeup artists have come together to create a collective that will support black creatives within the fashion and beauty industry.
These include Raw Loach, who has dressed the likes of Mary J Blige, Zendaya, Kerry Washington and Demi Lovato, hair artist Lacy Redway, who's worked with Tracee Ellis Ross and Tessa Thompson and designer Jason Rembert, whose Aliétte have been worn by Taraji P. Henson, Regina King and Tiffany Haddish.
The Black Fashion & Beauty Collective already counts the following stylists and makeup artists as members: Wayman & Micah, Apuje Kalu, Kesha McLeod, Rachel Johnson, Jessica Smalls, Nai’vasha, Ashunta Sheriff-Kendricks. Jason Bolden of JSN Studio and Netflix’s Styling Hollywood is also joining the executive board.
The nonprofit organisations was created to support the behind-the-scenes people who don't often get the credit they deserve, and even less so if they are black.
Jason Bolden told the Business of Fashion it was like a 'black glam union' and a 'safe space' for creatives to gain insight into the industry from the experts, but also discuss issues such as pay disparities and micro-aggressions within the industry.
'It’s us being able to own our blackness and also let people know we’ve had enough and this is what it is going to look like going forward,' he added.
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The collective is also helping Chicago-based relief fund My Block, My Hood, My City to support Black-owned businesses that were damaged during Chicago’s protests.
Penny Goldstone is the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire, covering everything from catwalk trends to royal fashion and the latest high street and Instagram must-haves.
Penny grew up in France and studied languages and law at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris before moving to the UK for her MA in multimedia journalism at Bournemouth University. She moved to the UK permanently and has never looked back (though she does go back regularly to stock up on cheese and wine).
Although she's always loved fashion - she used to create scrapbooks of her favourite trends and looks, including Sienna Miller and Kate Moss' boho phase - her first job was at MoneySavingExpert.com, sourcing the best deals for everything from restaurants to designer sales.
However she quit after two years to follow her true passion, fashion journalism, and after many years of internships and freelance stints at magazines including Red, Cosmopolitan, Stylist and Good Housekeeping, landed her dream job as the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire UK.
Her favourite part of the job is discovering new brands and meeting designers, and travelling the world to attend events and fashion shows. Seeing her first Chanel runway IRL at Paris Fashion Week was a true pinch-me moment.
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