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Hopefully, you didn’t spend your entire paycheck on Labor Day sales because the best style releases this week will surely put some stress on your pockets. This week’s drops include pieces from Neighborhood Japan’s Fall/Winter 2019 collection, rose logo hoodies and totes from Noah, a new Comme des Garcons x Gucci tote bag from Dover Street Market Ginza, and […]
The JAY-Z curated Made In America Festival is back at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. There’ll be performances from Travis Scott, Cardi B, Lizzo, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Jorja Smith, Rosalía, James Blake, Gucci Mane, Megan Thee Stallion, Tierra Whack, DaBaby, Kaskade, and others. The festival will have four stages and will run for two days, Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, […]
Black To Techno, a new film from South London-raised artist and director Jenn Nkiru, has just been made available online as part of four films commissioned by Gucci and Frieze for their Second Summer Of Love series, alongside Jeremy Deller’s acid house doc Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete View Of Britain 1984-1992 and Wu Tsang’s magical realist documentary about […]
Renée E. Tirado has been named the Global Head of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Gucci. The appointment of Tirado in this position, which will see the implementation of a worldwide brand strategy that aims to ensure each tenet of that title is woven into the fabric of Gucci’s presence, is a key part of […]
Gucci is facing cultural appropriation criticism once again. Despite first receiving criticism for debuting their “Full Indy Turban” on a white model during Milan Fashion Week 2018, the luxury fashion brand put the controversial product up for sale on Nordstrom for $790 recently. Understandably, a lot of people aren’t happy. Twitter users have directly criticized […]
Following his appointment to the helm of Gucci in 2015, Alessandro Michele spearheaded the most effective brand revival of the past decade. Gucci’s collections had become predictable and prosaic under Michele’s predecessor Frida Giannini, who lead the brand’s creative for eight years. Thus when Michele took the reins, he realized his curated maximalist vision, pulling a hybrid of references […]
Last August Jamie Cantave, a 34-year-old from Brooklyn, purchased the Gucci Cities T-shirt on Matches.com for $550. The garment, emblazoned with Gucci in rainbow-colored font placed above a list of major cities, could, funnily enough, reflect unity amid differences. Cantave bought it because he liked the colors and it seemed unique. This was before Gucci […]
This is what happened to Fubu: They oversaturated the market. “The biggest mistake we made with the brand was buying more inventory than we needed. This was around 2001,” said Daymond John, a Queens native who founded the label in 1992 and brought on his friends J. Alexander Martin, Keith Perrin and Carlton Brown as […]
Gucci‘s recent blackface scandal has prompted the label to rectify its apparent lack of diversity. On Friday, Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri announced four long-term initiatives that aim to improve cultural awareness within the fashion house. These actions are: Hiring global and regional directors for diversity and inclusion; setting up a multicultural design scholarship program; launching a diversity and inclusivity awareness program; and […]
T.I. wants everyone to know that his Floyd Mayweather diss track had nothing to do with Tameka “Tiny” Harris—his wife of nearly 19 years. First, a little background information: In the days following Gucci’s blackface scandal, T.I. called on his fans to join him in a boycott against the label. A number of celebrities have since joined […]
