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🎭Geoffrey Holder: A Renaissance Man of Art

Geoffrey Holder

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Lena Horne sits for her portrait. Painting her is Geoffrey Holder.

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Geoffrey Holder was far more than just a multi-talented artist; he was a fashion visionary. A celebrated dancer, choreographer, actor, painter, and director, Holder's creative spirit permeated every aspect of his life, including his bold and distinctive style.

A Caribbean Heritage, A Global Impact

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Holder's flair for fashion reflected his vibrant Caribbean heritage. He embraced bold colors, striking patterns, and a mix of textures rarely seen in  menswear at the time.  But Holder's style was about more than just where he came from – it was a reflection of his global travels and insatiable curiosity. He blended elements from African cultures, European tailoring, and avant-garde fashion trends to create a style entirely his own.

From the Stage to the Runway

Holder's impact on fashion extended beyond his own wardrobe. As a dancer and choreographer, he often crafted extravagant costumes that were integral to the storytelling and visual drama of his performances.  His work in Broadway productions like "House of Flowers" and "The Wiz," for which he won two Tony Awards, showcased his unique ability to translate movement and emotion into wearable art.

Photos: Costumes from the Wiz on Broadway, 1975| Geoffrey Holder | NMAAHC | Smithsonian

Visit the Exhibits at the NMAAHC | Smithsonian: https://nmaahc.si.edu/

Embracing Individuality

Geoffrey Holder's fashion was characterized by an unwavering sense of individuality.  He frequently wore flowing caftans, embellished suits, and statement headpieces with an air of confidence and authenticity that was impossible to ignore. His style was theatrical, yes, but it was also a testament to his belief in the power of self-expression. Holder once said, "Elegance is an attitude." He embodied this mantra with every outfit he put together, reminding us all that looking good is about feeling good about yourself.

A Continuing Influence

Geoffrey Holder's sartorial legacy continues to inspire designers and fashion enthusiasts alike. His fusion of cultural influences and flamboyant personality paved the way for those who believe that fashion is about more than trends.  It's about embracing your individuality and using clothing as a canvas for self-expression.

Actor Geoffrey Holder (1930 - 2014) with his wife, actress
 and dancer Carmen de Lavallade, circa 1993.
 (Photo by Rose Hartman/Getty Images)

Geoffrey Holder was a true original and his daring fashion sense is an enduring testament to his creative genius and enthusiasm for life.

You must research Geoffrey Holder's work. Classic.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: https://www.alvinailey.org/geoffrey-holder

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390305/fullcredits

⭐Ann Lowe: A Pioneering African American Fashion Designer

Photo:  Smithsonian | NMAAHC 

Ann Lowe was an African American fashion designer who rose to prominence in the mid-20th century. She was best known for designing Jacqueline Bouvier's wedding dress, but her career spanned decades and included work for other notable clients, such as socialites, actresses, and members of royalty.

YouTube: NMAAHC

Early Life and Career

Lowe was born in 1898 in Montgomery, Alabama, into a family of sharecroppers. Her mother was a seamstress, and Lowe learned the craft from her at a young age. Despite facing racial discrimination and limited opportunities, Lowe's talent and passion for design shone through. She began her career working in local Montgomery shops, eventually opening her own business in 1928.

Rise to Fame

Lowe's reputation for exquisite craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail quickly spread beyond Montgomery. By the 1940s, she had established herself as a leading designer in New York City, catering to a clientele that included some of the wealthiest and most influential women in America. Her designs were featured in prominent fashion magazines and worn by celebrities like Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, and Barbara Bates.

Designing for Jackie Kennedy

In 1953, Lowe received the commission of a lifetime: to design Jacqueline Bouvier's wedding dress for her marriage to Senator John F. Kennedy. The dress, a breathtaking creation of ivory silk taffeta with a bouffant skirt and a fitted bodice, became an instant sensation. It was featured on the cover of Life magazine and solidified Lowe's place as a fashion icon.

Challenges and Legacy

Despite her success, Lowe's career was not without challenges. As an African American woman in the fashion industry, she faced persistent discrimination. She was often denied access to resources and opportunities available to her white counterparts. Additionally, she was frequently underpaid for her work and struggled to receive proper credit for her designs.

Despite these obstacles, Lowe persevered and built a remarkable career. Her talent, resilience, and determination paved the way for future generations of African American designers. Today, she is recognized as a pioneer in the fashion industry and an inspiration to aspiring designers of all backgrounds.

Lowe's Legacy

Ann Lowe's legacy extends far beyond the wedding dress that made her famous. Her work represents not only exquisite craftsmanship but also the triumph of human spirit over adversity. She challenged racial barriers in the fashion world and inspired generations of designers to come. Her story continues to serve as a powerful reminder of the importance of diversity, inclusion, and perseverance in the pursuit of one's dreams.

Photo:  Twitter @NMAAHC - Smithsonian | NMAAHC 

🤓Reference Article:

Anne Lowe. Smithsonian | National Museum of  African American History 

& Culture:  https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/ann-lowe

This is just a brief overview of Ann Lowe's life and career. There is much more to learn about this remarkable woman, her struggles, and her achievements. I encourage you to explore further and delve deeper into her fascinating story.

🎤 TFC in the Studio!

Ya'll I have this video that should have been posted yesterday! 

All I'm say...Lakia is going the Godly route...the devil is a lie.  I rebuke you demons in the course of TRYing to stop greatness. 

Hey 🦄Chicadees. I' ll never stop. I will fight for what's mine b-t-s, but Kia gonna show up! IT!'s that time ya'll pick your side.

😁Anywho.

My show does not talk about 💥God, 📂politics or👣gender differences { TFC Loves Humanity Realness..do YOU}. The TFC Show is about Fashion Life and freestyle of life! Leave me alone.*Michael Jackson voice*...camping outside my house😁😆😂

No manipulation HERE ~TFC

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#thatfashionchick   #Chicadees   #fashionlife    #fashiontalk

Black History Month

Blame them MF's for the late post...🤣🤗 *middle finger fkrs*😁

🤓Flashback Friday: ⭐Style Icon: Helen Williams {a TFC repost}

 

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Helen Williams was born in East Riverton, New Jersey in 1937. She is best known for being the first black mainstream (commercial) fashion model. Helen made her mark in America and Paris in the 1950’s and 60’s. 

There were others that came before her, but there was a little more to this lady. At the age of 17, she caught the attention of Lena Horne and Sammy Davis Jr, who encourage her modeling career.  Following the encouragement, Helen worked with Ophelia DeVore.  This was an awesome match because Ophelia had opened, Grace Demarco Modeling Agency, {first black modeling agency}. After etiquette learning and preparing for the world stage, Helen Williams took the world by storm. She broke racial barriers for dark skin woman {whom were considered ugly in America}.

  Helen represented change, with grace and authority. Her beauty was spread across the world through ads and brands including Jet magazine, Ebony magazine, Sears, Christian Dior and Jean Desses. Helen William was the ‘IT’ girl of her time.

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⭐Style Icon: Helen Williams

🎥Watch This: A Coco Chanel Review {🤣🎨#dopeness}

Hey 🦄Chics! Did you know?

 

Photos in Order of Appearance:
Art Images w/o backgrounds | freepngimg.com 
Coco Chanel | © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Saumur, France | Alamay | maine-et-loire-vue-gnrale-de-saumur-1903-old-antique-vintage-print-picture-MHPPE1
Chanel Hat (1) | Portrait of Gabrielle Chanel wearing one of her hats, published in the magazine Comœdia Illustré,

 October 1st 1910
Chanel Hat (2) | Chanel (Millinery) 1911 Gabrielle Dorziat, Photo Félix
Chanel Jersey Knit Dress | House of Chanel _ Dress _ French _ The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pinterest
Tweed Suit; purple | Chanel no 11 _ Coco Chanel _ V&A Explore The Collections; Pinterest.com
Tweed Suit; printed | yves-monrique-p3P1-xibiKA-unsplash| Unsplash.com
Chanel Dress (1); LBD | yves-monrique-oEvKyQNdqQk-unsplash| Unsplash.com
Chanel Dress (2); LBD | tumblr_inline_n28lwsqPB51qmx73b | Tumblr.com
Ad; Three Ladies Dressed in Chanel | Chanel, 1909; Pinterest.com
WTF Fact - Coco Channel a former Nazi Spy | Wtffunfact.com 
Coco Chanel, Nazi book | Hal Vaughan; Pinterest.com
Coco Chanel | tumblr_inline_n28ml9esjv1qmx73b | Tumblr.com
Classic Chanel Image | Chanel - The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pinterest.com
Coco Chanel; in hat & jewelry | Coco Chanel a life in pictures; Pinterest.com
Chanel w/ Ladies on Stairs | Coco Chanel Fotografías e imágenes de stock
Slingback Shoe (1) | najlacam-3-gLyzpdW7o-unsplash | Unsplash.com
Slingback Shoe (2) | najlacam-1MgyPKq22EU-unsplash |Unsplash.com
Woman on Chanel Runway | Chanel Slingback Pump_ A Brief History as the Iconic Shoe Turns 65; Pinterest.com
Karl Lagerfeld | Karl lagerfeld quotes; Pinterest.com
Chanel Modern Ad (1) | Inès de la Fressange_ Chanel Ad's 1980s; Pinterest.com
Chanel Modern Ad (2) | Inès de la Fressange_ Chanel Ad's 1980s; Pinterest.com
Chanel Boutique | Mademoiselle Chanel no_ 31 Rue Cambon_; Pinterest.com
Chanel Ladies Ad |  tumblr_inline_n28lrj4G901qmx73b | Tumblr.com

(Review via Also Watch)

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🎥🍿Fashion History of an Icon: Coco Chanel

🤓Fashion Dreams: Coco Chanel {Learn from the Greats!} ~ a TFC repost

 

Well, well well how are ya'll doing? Feels like its been a nice break from business and its politics.  Graduate school is no joke, so it was a must to refocus on projects and assignments so I can possibly graduate lol.  Last note I left you was about some major test I had to take and....I COMPLETED MY MIDTERMS {not with flying colors, but good 😅}.  Starting a new career is no joke and a lot of pressure, but I been a diamond.💎

📚My current classes are: Dynamics of Fashion and Online Retailing and Ecommerce.

💃Dynamics of Fashion is explains the ins and outs of the fashion industry from production, retail, brand image and public relations. I have to do a lot of analysis reports on various aspects of fashion. Now we are working on the final project - choose a fashion brand and analyze the type of business model the brand's foundation is built, basically acting as a consultant to reinforce brand image.

💃Online Retailing and eCommerce is teaching me how to operate an eCommerce business.  I'm currently developing a Peak-Season eCommerce Plan, in which I have to create a brand in a specific product category and create a detailed strategy to know when and how to market during popular times as well as selling product that is in demand.  My company is called Scentful Chic, smell the style  - women's fragrance category; developing a website and everything.  I would love to share the final project!

📑Midpoint Review was a huge meeting with the fashion directors and I have another one before I graduate...aye yi yi😅.  For my thesis project I created a blogzine called IT! Chick Blogzine- where IT! speaks for itself, also presenting a website for this idea.  I will be able to put this idea into action next semester, in a magazine class.  Then I will share this project tooo!

The lady above is Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, a french designer and trailblazer of fashion.  We know you learn from the best to be the best. As soon as I studied Chanel, my fashion life was decided for obvious reasons.  There aren't too many black women trailblazers in fashion/beauty, hence why I created That Fashion Chick...my splash will be made for sure!  I see fashion in a way that puts me in my own lane and I'm steady driving. 😎

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Glad to be back and more post will come.  

No more breaks until next year, lol sike! 😏

📢Have an AWWWESOME DAAAAAY Chicadees!

💖💛💜💚

I love looking back at my work😍. The journey is real and I continue to amaze myself and inspire readers. Every young person should have examples of greatness, though family first!

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👄🗩Fashion Life: Goals

Photos: Town & Country - Getty/Design by Michael Stillwell

🗿Tech Tuesday: AI is HERE!! {AI and Fashion}

'Tech in Fashion' conversations once stemmed around 

advancement is gadgets, and innovative machinery in 

retail and manufacturing. Also, a HOT-T-T focus on TFC was

3D Printing and transformed into the fashion metaverse.

👉All of the above is in the evolution of AI.
Get the Scoop on AI and Fashion! 

Let's learn together.🤓

YouTube: CTV Your Morning

Mind blowing 🤯right?!

Continue...

YouTube: Threaducation

 This is happening with steady advancements, as we gage 

towards the future.

TFC is into these kind of topics. We'll be learning more!👍

👄💬 #fashionlife

👩🏾‍🎨Fashion Life: Designing Lakia Fashae

 This month is a salute to myself. 

I appreciate all who paved a way, for my opportunity 

to pave a way.

 
A chick is graciously strutting!😍👠

 
Everything has happened to the betterment of 

designing Lakia Fashae. THANKS A BUNCH!💪🏾😊💓👩🏾‍💻

Check out a few of post that sparked 
my Fashion Life journey:

👄🗩Fashion Life: Goals 

{Reflects a moment in time during fashion life.}

💼Business Pioneer: Ophelia DeVore

{One of the first black models in America and founder 

of Grace Del Marco Modeling Agency.}

Photo: visionaryproject.org/devoremitchellophelia

⭐Style Icon: Helen Williams

{Made her mark in America and Paris in the 1950's and 60's

 as first black mainstream fashion model.}

🎶Woot, Woot! 😄

{This is some flavor I FEEL...}

📌Visuals of My Influence:

📮Old Fashioned ✈💺Traveling through fashion's time! {HERE!}

📽Vintage and Classic Style Nostalgia love for fashion {HERE!}

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👨🏾MLK Day!

 Silly me, I told ya'll see you Monday. 🤦🏾‍♀️😄 
TFC will have new post Tuesday!👩🏾‍💻✨💃🏾

Enjoy your day and learn a lil sum sum! 💜

🙏🏾Thank you to all my way~makers.😍

#funfact: "I Have A Dream" was given 
on August 28th., my birthday.

I Lakia, see's the promise land!🤓😉

👀Memory Lane: Who Holds the Fashion Vision? #repost

Talk your ish Ki!

Hmmm, don't mind if I do...🏂🏾

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I've been a blogger for over 10 years now. In these years I've seen the good, bad and ugly in society. TFC's blog has gotten the attention of the snootie peoples in fashion and entertainment, due to my gripes with the industry about diversity on the runway {they changed the runways}. You have to go back and do your research if you don't know. Yup I have a voice, and I use it well! 

To be as loud as I am about equality in the fashion industry, it gets you blackballed. Yup, I wear the black ball badge HAPPILY {it happens to all the greats😅}! I don't do celebrity talk anymore and I do not kiss industry butt...but, they love my passion and technichally still check for me. They hate that I'm so freakin' independent.🔌 

Welp...truly idgaf. You know Why?? 

I'm not just a blogger, I'm a fashion journalist{this is my career...s/o to my master's program MA 😏}! Do you see reporters asking to post things, or do they post stories no matter trauma effects, hate or status quo??. Yeah, see IDGAF.

I dooooeeesss this fashion thing. Fashion is about expression through artistic flow. Not to hurt, but to be a voice in history, marking something GREAT! I challenge the hate, and pity the fool who just settles for "well, I can't say that..". ✋🏾Pish tosh that BS!

Watch what I do next.

Google fashion topics...it's all trend related.

SMH.

💡Fashion is a lifestyle. OMG-G-G-G! Go through TFC platforms and tell me that's not fashion. HeHe!🤩🤣

Mad Yet?

Well, I'm just getting warmed up with nothing to prove.

Like I said TFC has been established for 10 plus years {in which this is my second business in fashion}.

I'm known through word of mouth {promo never been my fortay..things are about to change}. Keeps the weirdos off of me, or in the 😡"who does this bish think she is" lane. 

I'm Lakia Fashae and I don't play nothing, but style!🎮

Is ya'll ready or nah?

Any who, they said as a blogger its good to share past articles {and yes you can see my work has inspired the fashion industry, plenty}. I'm just so hated because I'm a "black" girl who peeps game and uses my melanin je ne sais quoi to ad that extra element of umph {they hate me badddd...black included for having balls to be free spirited}.🤷🏾‍♀️

🎶"I get it from my mama"🎶 & daddy 😂😆. 💖

Heeeyyy, I'm an 80's baby with the flavor of reckoning. You about to love me or hate me even more! 📞Tell God you mad.

I literally just came off the top of the dome with this post. It's time for some excitement. I cant' get jiggy in this society....so yeah I'm doing my blogger job and shaking shit up via fashion. Ima make it worth the hate.😊😁 This gone be goooood!👍🏾💪🏾

💁🏾‍♀️To get this new day/era started, we're going to take a walk down memory lane.

👩🏾‍💻Read this post: 

👄Fashion Talk: Who Holds the Fashion Vision?

I crack myself UUUPPPP!!!!😁😆😂

🎶A Rose is Still a Rose...🎶

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Watch This!!: LANVIN SUMMER 2014 AD CAMPAIGN...this year marks 125 year in Fashion {TBT}

Fashion designers like myself dream about this kind of longevity! There's a method to the madnes that Jeanne Lanvin understood. Lanvin's work is rich fashion history that will never be forgotten.  Alber Elbaz {Artistic Director of Lanvin}is doing amazing work, in keeping the fashion house very much alive.

Jeanne Lanvin {French Designer}

Lanvin has a site dedicated to it's history {great info + fashion inspiration} here: http://125ans.lanvin.com/

Check out the Summer 2014 campaign by Lanvin...what are they talking about? =D

Watch This!!

YouTube - LANVIN