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Nordstrom’s in-store pop-up program, New Concepts@Nordstrom, is celebrating Black History Month by spotlighting Black fashion. The department store retailer’s latest offering in the program is called Black_Space, which it describes as “celebrating Black creativity through fashion and retail.” Located in 12 Nordstrom locations and online, the shop features 28 Nordstrom-owned fashion and beauty brands and is curated by five Black creators. The assortment includes men’s and women’s clothing, with prices ranging from $20 to over $1,600. Each of the five curators’ selections will be represented through in-store setups and merchandising, as well as an online site experience that will include…

A retrospective of the work of black fashion designer Patrick Kelly, who challenged racist stereotypes, will be staged in the fall.To commemorate his short but highly influential career, “Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love” opens on October 23 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibition was originally held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2014, but is scheduled to expand to the West Coast.Born in Bigburg, Mississippi in 1954, Kelly began selling her designs from a shop inside a beauty salon in Atlanta. He befriended black model Pat Cleveland and encouraged her to move to Paris, where…

The intricacies of Black culture are deeply woven into the fabric of the fashion industry in everything from language and hairstyles to aesthetics and trends. Yet fashion’s greatest inspirations are constantly erased from history. Bantu knots have become space buns, durags are now cutting edge high fashion, and bamboo earrings have become runway-worthy jewelry, all in the name of cultural appropriation. Black culture has served as the muse behind some of fashion’s biggest movements and designer collections, yet has rarely received any credit or acknowledgment.The unsung heroes and hidden forces of Black designers, stylists, and creatives have given far more…

Jungfrau A. Bietschhorn This region is a magnificent area with high mountain ranges, glaciers and is actually the most glaciated part of the European Alps. Visiting this area can be done relatively easy by car and if you want to go up, by train up to 3,400 metres above sea level, the highest train ride in Europe, the Jungfrau Railway is very impressive (and expensive!). The area is on the UNESCO World Heritage list because of its unique and wide range of flora and fauna and geological importance regarding the creating of the High Alps.

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, checks the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cooks “sitting is the new coolness” line. What we like: What we dislike: It achieves this by means of an accelerometer, a heart rate sensor and GPS. There are already many smartwatches on the market such…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, checks the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cooks “sitting is the new coolness” line. What we like: What we dislike: It achieves this by means of an accelerometer, a heart rate sensor and GPS. There are already many smartwatches on the market such…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…