The Black Dress- Black Fashion Designers in celebration of Black History Month + New York Fashion Week

When we think of the black dress, an L.B.D. typically comes to mind. Well, not so fast. Kicking off New York Fashion Week, I made at very worthwhile stop at the opening of The Black Dress: Ten Contemporary Fashion Designers which celebrates the singular vision of featured black fashion designers: Jeffrey Banks, Samantha Black, Stephen Burrows, Donna Dove, Epperson, Michael Jerome Francis, Byron Lars, Tracy Reese, Omar Salam and LaQuan Smith who have found success in an industry that historically downplays their achievements. >> MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS And TREND SPOTLIGHTS The exhibition's fashion consultant Walter Greene explained the relevancy of  the coterie of designers as, "it represents a coming together of Black designers from the diaspora. They are designers who were born in Africa, Trinidad and Tobago,  Jamaica and the US, the common thread is

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