Fashion's Phoenix

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Fashion designer Byron Lars has taken his career on a new path by creating limited-edition 'Barbie' designs and a new fashion enterprise called Beauty Mark. The Barbie dolls are African-American high fashion beauties. Beauty Mark is a collection of feminine tailored shirts with classical styling.

Management, Design and construction, Clothing, Fashion designers, Barbie dolls, Doll clothes, Lars, Byron, Beauty Mark

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How was I going to live without my baby?

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Mamie Till-Mobley describes in her memoir the tragic events surrounding the death of her only child, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago youth. He was kidnapped and brutally murdered in 1955, while visiting Mississippi, by two white men allegedly because he whistled at a white woman.

Mississippi, Illinois, Excerpt, African American youth, African American teenagers, Death of, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America (Book), Till, Emmett

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Leaders of the new school

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African American designers have become the new status quo. Once neglected by the fashion avant-garde, this revolution represents a $2 billion industry.

Marketing procedures, Marketing, African Americans, Clothing industry, Company marketing practices, Fashion design, Textile and clothing industry software, Phat Fashions, Cash, Bobby, Delice, Ronald, Delice, Rony, Hendy, Francis, Stoney, Michael, Akademiks, Enyce, FUBU, Rocawear, Sean John

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