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Start Up Fashion: Do It Your Way Press

Start Up Fashion: Do It Your Way Press

  Fed up with traditional industry rules, Nicole Giordano created Start Up Fashion to, “Show independent fashion designers that they can and should ignore the rules and do it their own way.” On this episode of the company’s Do It Your Way podcast, Giordano, talks to Nude Barre’s Erin Carpenter ab...
Our Favorite BIPOC Fall Fashion Moments

Our Favorite BIPOC Fall Fashion Moments

2021’s fall fashion repertoire boasts bold prints, lavish coats, and soft silks. BIPOC superstars such as Virgil Abloh, Vera Wang, Laquan Smith, and Olivier Roustieng tapped into innovative silhouettes and fun colors; while iconoclasts such as the “Fab Five” (Gisele Claudia Ntsama, Pape Macodou F...
NBC News Press: Know Your Value

NBC News Press: Know Your Value

In this NBC news article, stylist Monica Barnett shares her top picks of black women owned businesses. Citing stark figures that show revenue disparities between all-women owned businesses and Black women owned businesses, Barnett stresses the importance of looking to minority operated companies ...