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Premieres Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Discover the fascinating story of this iconic American garment. From their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics are writ large.

In this exclusive interview, NY powerhouses Tommy Hilfiger and Randy Cousin discuss the brand's initiatives to increase BIPOC opportunities in the fashion industry.

CÎROC, Combs Enterprises, and Culture Creators Announced EMPOWERED WOMEN April Honorees Share Article The second cohort of the 2021 Empowered Women platform, including Mona Scott-Young, Tanisha Scott, and Kimberly M. Jenkins, share financial empowerment advice in celebration of Financial Literacy Month In speaking on financial literacy, Mona Scott-Young shares her mantra, a quote from Dr. C.L. Karrass, “in business, as in life, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate,”...

Fashion Blogs Died, But Fashion Newsletters Are Filling the Void ELLE 3/10/2021 Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. I have long maintained that the worst thing you can do to me is send me an email. But lately, I’ve had to revise that stance to“maybe some emails are good.” Between Molly Young’s books newsletter Read Like the Wind, Hunter Harris’s fun-sized pop culture musings in Hung Up, and Delia Cai’s media dispatches in Deez Links, ...

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. I have long maintained that the worst thing you can do to me is send me an email. But lately, I’ve had to revise that stance to “maybe some emails are good.” Between Molly Young’s books newsletter Read Like the Wind, Hunter Harris’s fun-sized pop culture musings in Hung Up, and Delia Cai’s media dispatches in Deez Links, my inbox feels like it hasn’t since the mid-2000’s—something I actually wan...

  Canadian coat brand (and royal favourite), Sentaler, has released an array of purple styles as part of the Sentaler Refresh ‘Unity’ collection. The purple shades are inspired by the coats worn by Kamala Harris, Jill Biden and Michelle Obama at the recent inauguration. The three different purple coats are a staple silhouette in the Sentaler collection and are made from limited edition archival fabric. SophieGrace Produces Sustainable Capsule   Calgary-based brand SophieGrace has launched...

Tommy Hilfiger Strikes Key Partnerships to Advance Underrepresented Communities in Fashion Womens Wear Daily (WWD) 2/10/2021 Lisa Lockwood Tommy Hilfiger has established several partnerships with its People’s Place Program to champion Black, Indigenous and people of color in fashion. “The People’s Place Program is a cornerstone in our efforts to open the door to everyone who has been left out by fashion,” said Tommy Hilfiger, principal designer at Tommy Hilfiger Global...

As the chair of fashion at Ryerson University, advocate and educator Ben Barry has tirelessly championed a more conscious and inclusive approach within the modern fashion world. So, it’s not surprising that Barry announced last week that starting next fall, he would become the dean of fashion at The New School within New York’s Parsons School of Design. While he will certainly be missed by Canadian creatives and others who have watched him help to transform our local fashion education syste...