Description
One of the few surveys of Black style and fashion ever published, How to Slay offers a lavishly illustrated overview of African American style through the twentieth century, focusing on the last thirty-five years. Through striking images of some of the most celebrated icons of Black style and taste, from Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, and Miles Davis to Rihanna, Naomi Campbell, Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams, this book explores the cultural underpinnings of Black trends that have become so influential in mainstream popular culture and a bedrock of fashion vernacular today. A preponderance of Black musicians, who for decades have inspired trends and transformed global fashion, are featured and discussed, while a diverse array of topics are touched upon and examined hats, hair, divas, the importance of attitude, the use of colour, 60s style, the influence of Africa and the Caribbean, and the beauty of black skin.
About the Author
An award-winning journalist, Constance C. R. White has served as editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, and was previously a style reporter for the New York Times, the founding fashion editor of Talk magazine and the first and only black executive fashion editor at a major fashion magazine, Elle. Before that she was an associate editor at Women's Wear Daily and W. As a style director, brand consultant, and spokesperson for eBay, she conceived the organization's first fashion webzine and developed content and strategies aimed at women. White was a consultant, and a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune and Ozy.com, where she has written about Michelle Obama and Nicolas Ghesquiere, among other fashion icons. She is currently fashion features editor for TheImpression.com. She has been a frequent guest on news and entertainment programs including The Today Show, MSNBC, and New York Live, and she helped develop the first daily fashion news show, which she co-wrote and hosted for Cablevision's Full Frontal Fashion. She conceived and edited the book, Essence: A Salute to Michelle Obama (2013), and she is the author of Stylenoir (1998), published by Perigee/Putnam.
Book Information
ISBN 9780847861385
Author Constance C. R. White
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
About the Author
An award-winning journalist, Constance C. R. White has served as editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, and was previously a style reporter for the New York Times, the founding fashion editor of Talk magazine and the first and only black executive fashion editor at a major fashion magazine, Elle. Before that she was an associate editor at Women's Wear Daily and W. As a style director, brand consultant, and spokesperson for eBay, she conceived the organization's first fashion webzine and developed content and strategies aimed at women. White was a consultant, and a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune and Ozy.com, where she has written about Michelle Obama and Nicolas Ghesquiere, among other fashion icons. She is currently fashion features editor for TheImpression.com. She has been a frequent guest on news and entertainment programs including The Today Show, MSNBC, and New York Live, and she helped develop the first daily fashion news show, which she co-wrote and hosted for Cablevision's Full Frontal Fashion. She conceived and edited the book, Essence: A Salute to Michelle Obama (2013), and she is the author of Stylenoir (1998), published by Perigee/Putnam.
Book Information
ISBN 9780847861385
Author Constance C. R. White
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
