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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...
TheGrio Press: Support Small Businesses This Holiday Season

TheGrio Press: Support Small Businesses This Holiday Season

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, black media giant TheGrio compiled a list of black-owned businesses to support during these trying times. Citing quarantine and fluctuating covid numbers as catalysts for minority owned business closures, TheGrio urges us all to #BuyBlack this holiday season....
PureWow Press: Nude Barre Is a Black Owned Brand to Shop Now

PureWow Press: Nude Barre Is a Black Owned Brand to Shop Now

  In honor of Black History Month, lifestyle content powerhouse PureWow chronicled thirty-six black-owned beauty and fashion businesses to support year-round. Listed among top rated brands such as Fenty Beauty, Juvia's Place, and Telfar; Nude Barre snagged must-have status because of its inclusiv...
What Does It Mean To Be Indigenous?

What Does It Mean To Be Indigenous?

Merriam-Webster defines the term Indigenous as, “of or relating to the earliest known habitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group.” Within the scope of this definition, one cannot begin to imagine the heterogeneity woven throughout Indigenous ancestr...
The Missing Generation: The Silent War Against Indigenous Women

The Missing Generation: The Silent War Against Indigenous Women

She was on her way home from celebrating the new year, when her only mode of transportation broke down in winter nightfall. Her last documented moments seem to be out of the movie, Wind River, as she is seen sauntering into an abysmal, frosted field. Only sixteen, Selena Shelley Faye Not Afraid ...