10-year-old Egypt "Ify" Ufele was constantly bullied for her size. Instead of internalizing the taunts, she turned the teasing into passion.
"I was bullied, and they called me all kinds of names," she told NBC. So she began to design clothes and sew them with the help of her grandmother. Ify's Chubiiline features inclusive fashions that represent the types of bodies you don't often see on runways.
This season she made her debut at New York Fashion Week with plus size styles in Ankara prints.
"I turned from negative attention into positive attention," she says. Keep up with Ify on Instagram.
Recently Naomi Campbell talked to photographer Nick Knight about the issue of racism in the fashion industry and the support group she's created to push for diversity in the fashion world.
In the 1970s, it was uncommon to see a Black woman walk the runway. During that time, Bethann Hardison did just that and became a muse for designers in the industry including Calvin Klein and Willi Smith. During her years as a model, Hardison developed the desire to diversify the fashion industry and in 1984, she founded the modeling agency Bethann Management. “Whenever fashion designers wanted to use a girl of color in their shows, they would call me,” she said in her Style Like U “What’s Underneath” video.
Black women have long known the struggle of finding "nude" clothing and accessories that actually match our skin tones. We have never understood why colors that would be more accurately titled "pale beige" or "cream" should be accepted as the default skin color for everyone. Well, leave it to BuzzFeed to hilariously show what it's like to be a Black woman wearing "neutral" (read: neutral for fair-skinned people) clothing and makeup.
20-year-old Maddy Maxey is working to solve fashion problems beyond what will be the next hot runway trend. She describes herself as working "at the intersection of fashion and technology." This short profile is yet another reminder of how expansive tech can be.
The Door, a short film produced by Ava DuVernay, is the fifth of an installment for Miu Miu's Women's Tales. The short film stars Gabrielle Union, Alfre Woodard, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Adepero Oduye and Goapele. The short film follows Union as she rises above sadness with the help of her friends.
Claire Sulmers of Fashion Bomb Daily discusses her blog's rise to prominence in the fashion blogosphere and takes us behind the scenes as she covers Paris Fashion Week.
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