The Council of Fashion Designers of America will award A$AP Rocky, the multihyphenated artist, entrepreneur and actor, as the Fashion Icon at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards, presented by Amazon Fashion. A$AP Rocky is the creative director of Ray-Ban and Puma and has collaborated with many designer brands and been featured in their campaigns, including…
Last week, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a freshly reinforced dress code that stipulated, among other things, that “for decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet.” If you’d asked me then to forecast the prevailing fashion takeaways from this year’s seaside cinema extravaganza, I would have predicted the obvious: a…
Tonight’s Met Gala will focus on the aesthetic and political roots of Black dandyism fashion through the 2025 theme: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The gala, often deemed fashion’s biggest night, serves as a fundraiser for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But it serves as a deeper event for some: actor and…
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Reverend Dr Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: what one wore as a black man mattered. Wesley’s pastor father, who moved from Louisiana after World War II in search of more opportunities than those readily available to black people in the Deep South, “always…