The Look

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AND PEOPLE | Levi’s® We Are Original

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AND PEOPLE | adidas Originals EQT

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“Fun of Fashion”

Grace Bol photographed by Giampaolo Sgura for Vogue Germany August 2017

Stylist: Christina Arp & Nicola Knels Hair: Andrew Guida Makeup: Jessica Nedza & Lloyd Simmons

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Fashion Illustration, Mela Koehler

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Nkwo Spring Summer 2016 | Modernity

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George Babier, Fashion by Paul Poiret, 1910s.

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i-D // 5 african-german women on natural hair and cultural appropriation i-D Hair Week is an exploration of how our hairstyles start conversations about identity, culture and the times we live  In Germany the body-positive movement is finally tipping over into mainstream consciousness, but it has some glaring limitations. “Love your body and forget about the BMI,” says the average thin white girl. Growing your body hair long is not the big deal it used to be for most young German women. But, women of color, particularly African-German women, are noticeably absent from this discussion. A long history of racism and exclusion is still at work,  and though the movement to change this is growing, there’s a lot to do. To find out about the everyday experiences of African-German women when it comes to their hair, we hit the streets of Berlin. More on i-D >>

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For the second installment of American Women, Vogue’s 125th anniversary portfolio, we commissioned photographers, videographers, and writers to document the lives of farmers and musicians, tech entrepreneurs and models, teens and nonagenarians. Our objective was to shine a spotlight on 10 communities of extraordinary individuals whose courage, aspiration, and style is peerless—in short, women who make us proud.  “American Women: Pride” features the rising stars who are queering the rap industry, lesbians in tech, and many more.

Read the stories.

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adut: adut akech bior for pop magazine online

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Mame Thiane Camara photographed by Johan Sandberg for the Le Silla SS 2017 fashion campaign.

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- Nuna Couture.   Spring/Summer 2017. Ghana.

By Nathaniel Nunoo 

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Ajak Deng for OXOSI

IN THE OXOSI STUDIO creative direction Akin Adebowale photography Amandla Baraka styling Kindra Moné

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VOGUE // The Best Street Style From Australian Fashion Week (Resort 2018)

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VOGUE // The Best Street Style From Australian Fashion Week (Resort 2018)

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VINTAGE LAGOS - A Retrospective Fashion Documentary

Akin Faminu by Manny Jefferson.

Be sure to visit akinfaminu.com!

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Afrocolour by Andriana Chunis

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Irving Penn started at Vogue in 1943. After proving his talent as a still life and portrait photographer, Penn was eased into fashion work by Alexander Liberman, who instructed the usually jeans and sneakers–clad lensman to “buy an evening jacket and attend ‘the collections.’ ” Penn made his couture debut in 1950, photographing the latest fashion in a rickety studio—a former photography school, appropriately—furnished with a discarded theatrical curtain and infused with, Penn wrote, “the light of Paris as I had imagined it, soft but defining.” Penn made use of this light to interpret couture in photographs that became immediately iconic.

In honor of “Irving Penn: The Centennial” opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, we chart more of the great photographer’s career, by the numbers: here.