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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....
What's on Erin’s Christmas List?

What's on Erin’s Christmas List?

Nude Barre is committed to facilitating diversity and inclusivity in all spaces, and a major component of that is spreading the love. Our founder, Erin Carpenter, has curated a list of her favorite woman-owned businesses to stuff your stockings with for the holidays. Businesses committed to all h...
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...
Broadway Is Back: Our Must-See Shows of December

Broadway Is Back: Our Must-See Shows of December

1. Ain't Too Proud Ain’t Too Proud chronicles the rise of the singing sensations, The Temptations. Catch Ain’t Too Proud at the Imperial Theatre for two hours and thirty minutes of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame worthy hits such as: “My Girl,” “Papa Was A Rolling Stone,” and “My Girl.”  (Ph...