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Why Travel & Leisure Brands Are The Least Intimate

Leigh B. Maynard

Buoyed by road trippers, leisure travel has held up higher. The Des Moines, Iowa-based mostly firm later bought Time magazine for $a hundred ninety million to billionaire Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com Inc., and his spouse, Lynne Benioff, in the face of declines in print promoting and newsstand revenue. Fortune magazine, which was also part of Time, was bought to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $a hundred and fifty million. Many customers are cancelling reservations as traveling is banned, or big groups usually are not allowed. However, 35 percent are prepared to book local holidays between October and December 2020 while 37 percent plan to take action between January to June 2021.

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There have been 630 million trips still being taken throughout China’s Golden Week, representing about half of the inhabitants shifting round. Connectivity, especially amongst youthful generations, is turning into ubiquitous.

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Why Brands Need to Hire More Black Influencers

Leigh B. Maynard

Let’s face it: 2020 has been a year of letdowns, and the fashion industry is no exception — especially when it comes to matters of race. As a Black editor, I’m sick and tired of the general refusal to follow through on promises and simply do what is right. Following George Floyd’s murder, countless brands rushed to social media to share sentiments of solidarity. My inbox was flooded with emails titled, “Our commitment,” “We stand with the Black community,” and, my personal favorite, “We pledge to do better.” For someone who’s worked in fashion for eight years and experienced discrimination both firsthand and from afar, these so-called “promises” sounded like a broken record. They were performative, lacked emotion, and, frankly, felt like they were after one thing: my coin. As I dealt with the trauma and grief of losing yet another innocent Black man, supporting newly woke brands was something

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Brands Want In on the Vintage Fashion Boom

Leigh B. Maynard

The turmoil of the last twelve months seems to have eliminated trends from fashion, with moods and desires almost impossible to track on a global scale. But one phenomenon still seems poised to dominate 2021: vintage clothing, or “archival fashion,” as the cognoscenti call it. (Funny, that, because “vintage” was developed as the snob’s alternative to “used” and “thrifted.”) Archival, a notch above vintage, is distinguished by the piece’s place in fashion history–it appeared on the runway, started a trend, or has been highly influential. And most importantly, it was created by a historically significant designer.

The pandemic and a new environmental consciousness among young people helped kick off the archival fashion boom. But there’s also a sensibility among Gen Z and Millennials that archival fashion is a way to signal taste and conscientiousness. (If HF Twitter is anything to go by, Gen Z’ers are particularly obsessive about ‘90s

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30 Black-Owned Fashion Brands You Can Support Right Now

Leigh B. Maynard

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This story appears in STYLECASTER’s Activism Issue, starring Jurnee Smollett. Click here for more.  

Protest. Donate. Speak out on social media. Speak up in real life. There’s a lot you can do right now to fight racism, police brutality and discrimination, and while you’re at it, you can also shop from Black-owned fashion brands to support the community and elevate your wardrobe in the process. Black culture is an essential part of the fashion world today, influencing myriad trends and birthing many of the industry’s top designers, models, influencers and celebrities.

Of course, you should first spend your coin donating to anti-racist organizations and other charitable funds, but if you do decide you need a little retail therapy to cope with everything that’s going on in the world, make the effort to shop Black-owned brands whenever possible. And don’t act like you’re doing them a

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