The 15 Percent is a 501c3 non-profit advocacy organization urging major retailers to commit 15% of their shelf-space to Black-owned businesses. It offers large corporations accountability support and consulting services with the goal of advocating for and...
A research project on fashion and streetstyle sartorialism from Africa by Dr. Enrica Picarelli. About Dr. Enrica Picarelli: I am an independent researcher working on the intersection of art, fashion and visual studies in anglophone African countries. I received a...
Base de Datos de Estudios de la Moda y Textiles en América Latina (BASE) BASE is an online database of publications, actors, spaces and events related to fashion and textile studies in Latin America. BASE aims to broaden our understanding of the field of fashion...
Winner of the Dartmouth Medal, Berg Fashion Library is the leading resource for students and researchers of Fashion Studies. More than 13,000 color images, over 100 academic eBooks, an invaluable museum directory, a unique exhibition archive, reference works, and...
Curated from the hearts and minds of Black women, the Black Beauty Archives encompasses the history of our past, documents the present while imagining the future. Our mission is to preserve, document and celebrate the history of Black Beauty through cosmetics and...
The valued decorative arts, architecture, and handcrafts of the early American South depended on African American hands, a truth highlighted by folklorist John Michael Vlach in the seminal exhibit, “The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts” at the Cleveland...
Black Designers of Canada exists to highlight and amplify Black designers across Canada. The first-ever comprehensive Canadian index celebrating Black excellence in design.
Black Dress is an illustrated platform of achievement of Blacks in the fashion industry. Making it in the fashion business presents a challenge for all involved, but there has always been a lack of representation of Black designers in the fashion industry. The...
Black Fashion Fair was founded with the mission to discover, support and further Black designers and the communities they inspire. Our focus on fashion relates specifically to the contributions of Black designers and the impact of Black culture. We will tell the...
Culturas de Moda was born from the desire to land the ideas that have emerged from the academic area of "fashion studies" around the world in recent decades. It was born from a conjunction of frustrations that had been brewing within me for years and from the...
Hello! This is a bibliography meant to help instructors of design history decenter whiteness in their classes. It’s a Google Doc and anyone is welcome to use it for non-commercial purposes: i.e., to share it, download it, contribute to it, participate in editing...
Storytelling is at the core of Kimberly Henderson’s professional work in arts programming, curatorial and operational roles. Prior to now, she was the Associate Director of a contemporary art gallery in New York City’s Chelsea arts district. And, as an art writer,...
