How Stints at Nike and Net-a-Porter Inspired Kilee Hughes to Build Her Own PR Agency Six One remains one of the only Black-, female-owned beauty and wellness brand building firms in existence. Author: In our long-running series "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success. Within the past year, corporate America has seemingly rubbed its eyes and woken up to the reality of institutional, systemic racism that has pervaded it for...ever. Thanks to organizations like Pull Up for Change and 25 Black Women in Beauty, the beauty industry has been one of the most discussed fields when it comes to highlighting arenas ripe for change, for building more genuine inclusivity into corporate structure and for amplifying the stories, needs, voices and ideas of BIPOC communities. For Kilee Hughes, founder of brand strategy and PR agency Six One, these ideas have always been core to her work. They're what motivated her to branch out from stints at companies like Paul Wilmot, Nike, Net-a-Porter, L'Oréal, Luxottica and Shopbop to found her own agency, one that didn't ignore or overlook people of color in beauty, wellness and lifestyle.