This week was an enormous one for Black ladies within the style trade — notably in style media, as Marie Claire introduced veteran journalist Nikki Ogunnaike because the publication’s new editor-in-chief. Beginning August 8, Ogunnaike will lead the publication’s print, digital, and social editorial technique.
Along with her skillset, Ogunnaike will work on increasing style and luxurious protection throughout the publication’s numerous platforms, enhancing content material technique, and drawing in a extra various viewers.
“For almost 30 years, Marie Claire has been the go-to supply for girls who search to guide a lifetime of objective and energy,” stated Ogunnaike in a press release on Instagram. “As a long-time admirer, I’m thrilled to affix the Marie Claire staff and lead this model into a brand new period. Ladies who’re keen about their careers, private type, and the world round them will discover a new vacation spot that speaks to their whole id. I can’t wait to start this new chapter!”
Ogunnaike has had an in depth profession in media. Since beginning her profession, she has labored with Elle, GQ, InStyle, Glamour, and, most just lately, as senior digital director at Harper’s Bazaar.
Right here at theGrio, we’re at all times “rooting for everyone Black” — we will’t wait to see what Ogunnaike has up her editorial sleeves!
Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty names a brand new CEO
After 5 years, Rihanna is reportedly stepping down from the chief govt officer position at her Savage X Fenty model. As reported by the Guardian, Rihanna has chosen former Anthropologie CEO Hillary Tremendous to take over the helm of her fashionable lingerie and activewear model.
Though Tremendous will work because the model’s CEO beginning June 26, Rihanna will stay within the firm’s management as its govt chair.
“It’s been lovely to see our imaginative and prescient for Savage X Fenty affect the trade at such an unbelievable magnitude during the last 5 years,” Rihanna stated in a press release, per the Guardian. “That is just the start for us, and we’re going to proceed to increase in ways in which at all times join with the buyer. I’m so grateful and excited to welcome Hillary Tremendous as our new CEO – she is a powerful chief and is concentrated on taking the enterprise to a good increased stage.”
Given the star’s many tasks as a multi-brand mogul and expectant mom, we’re all for this working mother doing what’s greatest for her.
Solange’s Saint Heron drops a glassware assortment
For these nonetheless ready for Solange’s extremely anticipated Ikea collaboration to drop, she might have simply given you a holdover.
Taking inspiration from the late, nice Luther Vandross and pioneering ladies of design, the artist has simply launched a restricted glassware line. In response to Elle, the gathering, titled “Small Matter Artwork Objects: Handblown Glassware 001,” options sculptural glasses in a spread of earthy tones and modern spherical silhouettes Solange has designed by her collective, Saint Heron, with Philadelphia-based glassblower Jason McDonald.
Solange’s launch occasion for the road was themed round Luther Vandross’ hit track “A Home is Not a Dwelling.” She instructed Elle the track inevitably involves thoughts when she thinks of house and the objects in her assortment finally making it to the houses of others. In tune with Solange’s type, McDonald made 198 items by hand for this already sold-out first drop, however per Elle, one other assortment is on the way in which.
Africa Trend x The Brooklyn Museum
Following its tenure at London’s V&A Museum, the Africa Trend exhibition is taking up the Brooklyn Museum. From now till October 22, guests can have fun the creativity and world affect of African fashions by the a long time.
Described by the museum as one of many “largest-ever displays of the topic,” the exhibit options over 180 inventive works organized in sections, every representing completely different pivotal moments in African style and historical past. In a multisensory method, the immersive expertise presents numerous items, from high fashion to pictures, sketches, movie, jewellery, materials, and extra.
Whilst you might not be capable of afford a visit to the motherland this summer season, get the following smartest thing throughout your subsequent journey to the Massive Apple.
Lori Harvey will get within the saddle for Good American’s newest marketing campaign
Lori Harvey is getting again to her equestrian roots and getting again within the saddle for Good American because the star of the model’s summer season denim marketing campaign.
In response to a launch to theGrio, the moody western marketing campaign was styled by Zerina Akers and capitalizes on Harvey’s lifelong love of horses and her background in aggressive driving. The gathering consists of denims, jumpsuits, denim bralettes, shorts, and tube clothes in a mixture of gentle wash, black, and white. The gathering is out there now and ranges in worth from $69 to $179.
The return of Aveeno’s speed up program
Aveeno’s Speed up program is again! Renamed The Startup Collective by Aveeno, this system is designed to empower Black feminine entrepreneurs within the magnificence trade. Since its launch in 2021, this system has helped these companies thrive by providing sources and grants. As part of Aveeno’s dedication to the well-being of individuals of colour, The Startup Collective helps bridge the hole in healthcare and retail illustration by uplifting manufacturers that cater to the precise wants of Black shoppers.
This yr, The Startup Collective by Aveeno will disperse $100,000 and $50,000 in grants to 2 fortunate winners. Purposes shut on August 13, 2023; click on right here to study extra.
Taye Diggs, Tinashe, Nicco Annan, and extra star in ViiV Healthcare’s “Me in You, You in Me” marketing campaign
With the lethal virus removed from eradicated, what stops us from speaking brazenly about HIV?
ViiV Healthcare, the one pharmaceutical firm solely centered on HIV, is attending to the underside of this query with celebrities and influencers Taye Diggs, Tinashe, Nicco Annan, Villano Antillano, Nicky Champa, and Rafael De La Fuente, who star within the second installment of the corporate’s “Me in You, You in Me” marketing campaign.
In response to a launch to theGrio, this yr’s marketing campaign focuses on normalizing HIV prevention and boosting consciousness amongst communities disproportionately affected by the illness, which incorporates Black ladies, who led in new instances, Latinx/e males, Black queer and homosexual males, and trans ladies.
For the marketing campaign, Diggs and the others went by a social experiment during which they spoke brazenly and truthfully about HIV anonymously with each other after which have been filmed as they met one another. In response to the discharge, the expertise “Noticed all of them discovering empathy for one another and overcoming bias which is one thing that retains many nonetheless from getting the sources/information they should defend them from HIV.”
Karen Pittman shares her ideas on illustration in Hollywood
Starring on “And Simply Like That” and “The Morning Present,” actress Karen Pittman takes satisfaction in representing ladies of colour on the large display. In HBO’s “And Simply Like That,” Pittman performs Dr. Nya Wallace, who she describes as “an actual reflection of what a girl of colour, a Black lady, seems like in Brooklyn, New York Metropolis. Like an honest-to-God reflection.” Feeling privileged to be part of reviving the hit collection “Intercourse and The Metropolis,” it was important to Pittman that her character be seen carrying completely different, distinctive pure hairstyles.
The present’s creator, Michael Patrick King, imagined Nya Wallace as having a “bohemian vibe” and carrying braided hairstyles, even going as far as to reference her hair when introducing the character within the collection’ first season. As an advocate for pure hair, Pittman labored carefully with the present’s costume designers in order that “each iteration of the character [allows viewers to] see her in her pure hair.”
“I might be very glad once we can get to the purpose the place we’re simply taking a look at a wide range of ladies and sharing their experiences and feeling like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s me. I’ve had that very same expertise,’” stated Pittman in a press launch shared with theGrio. “However having stated that, I do know that it’s actually, actually essential that every one ladies see themselves represented on this present and on this platform on this explicit method. It offers us permission to dream. It offers us permission to permit ourselves to expertise vicariously what our lives might appear like. And it’s truly actually liberating and significant.”
Pittman additionally revealed her collaboration with Dove’s CROWN Coalition. As an advocate for the normalization of Black ladies’s pure hair, the actress plans to work with the model on its advocacy for the CROWN Act in america.
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