In honor of his 52nd birthday, we are looking back at the aspirational beauty and grooming moments from the singer, ...

In 1971, during her United States exile and the height of the Black Power Movement, Elizabeth Catlett once said, “Art for me must ... it is housed in the same city that shaped the artist during ...

After an inspiring conversation days ago with Refinery29’s fashion director Irina Grechko at SCADstyle 2025, designer Willy Chavarria shared even more insights with ESSENCE behind the scenes.

ESSENCE: What ways are you maintaining hope and pushing to tell the stories you want to continue telling? NR: There is a defiance and resistance in that creation and that pursuit to make art.

A white friend visiting my hometown of Atlanta had marveled at how stylish Black people in the city were. What he noticed was something I had always known: our singular ability to ‘style out ...

Rabat - In the northwestern part of Morocco lies the region of Rabat-Sale-Kenitra, a place that beautifully encapsulates the ...

Additional judges include Zegna’s artistic director Alessandro Sartori, Off-White’s art and image director ... host the Woolmark Prize in our home city of Milan and to meet the designers ...

Together, their works created a powerful and moving tribute to the resilience and spirit of the Filipino people, where ...

He sang “Flyin’ High (In The Friendly Sky),” “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” “Inner City Blues,” and a ... of the night a man returned to his art with full force, and in doing ...

Atlanta’s Magic City icon and current co-host of Angela ... Gigi also points to contemporary brand Poster Girl as a prime example of “borrowed” Black stripper aesthetics, known for selling ...

The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,' features an Easter egg and wants to ...