Inez and Vinoodh for British Vogue | Image courtesy of The Wall Group With a career spanning the scope of fashion, music, and professional hair products, Yusef Williams needs no introduction. From…
Wonderland’s Toni-Blaze Ibekwe on Capturing Culture Through Visual Storytelling
Wonderland Magazine Winter 2023 Cover by Axle Jozeph | Image courtesy of Wonderland Magazine In a forever-evolving fashion economy, Toni-Blaze Ibekwe’s adaptability appears almost seamless. Through her leadership at Wonderland Magazine, the…
Casting Director Emma Matell on Bringing Urgent Inclusivity to Fashion
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Dream Cazzaniga Gazes on Her Mother’s Legacy for Donyale Luna: Supermodel
Image by Luigi Cazzaniga | Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. In the spring of 1966, Time Magazine published an article titled, The Luna Year. That January, the Soviet Union succeeded…
For Stylist Raphael Hirsch, Fashion Imagery Should Take You on a Journey
Image by Luis Alberto Rodriguez | Image courtesy of MA + Group Happenstance led Raphael Hirsch to a career in fashion, first discovering his natural talent for styling after moving to London…
Richie Shazam’s Roadmap to Radical Representation in Fashion
Shot by Richie Shazam | Courtesy of IMG New York As a born and raised New Yorker, for Richie Shazam, the hustle is an innate part of her craft – which spans…
Fresh Off The Graduation Stage, Aoki Lee Simmons Is Ready To Work
Photographer – Roman Yee | Courtesy of Nomad Management (New York) Most interviews don’t start with frantic shouting in reaction to seeing a spider in the bedroom and Kimora Lee Simmons hopping…
Mugler Muse Connie Fleming Reflects On Her Life And Career
Interview Magazine Sept 2020 by Cruz Valdez | All images courtesy of Connie Fleming Before the rise of today’s more inclusive fashion industry, there were trailblazers like Connie Fleming who had to…
For International Women’s Day, A Historical Look Back at Models as Muses
The model as a muse feels in modern times symbiotic to the design process but wasn’t naturally the case throughout fashion history. The general model policy was usually “be seen and not…
Meet the Black Emerging Talent that Anchored NYFW
For over 90 years, Black History Month has stood as a time to reflect on how far society has come and how far it has to go. Turn the page to the…