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Barbie Just Got Even More Inclusive with Its Latest Fashionistas 2020 Collection


Barbie, the classic children’s doll that has become a staple of American culture, is kicking off the new decade with a renewed push for more diverse and inclusive offerings. Mattel has now unveiled its Fashionistas 2020 collection to show off “a multi-dimensional view of beauty and fashion,” according to CNN.

The new range of dolls includes one with vitiligo, a condition that causes the loss of skin pigment in blotches. (Supermodel Winnie Harlow has helped raise awareness about vitiligo.) Mattel notes in a press release that “offering a doll with vitiligo in our main doll line allows kids to play out even more stories they see in the world around them.” And the brand even worked with a dermatologist to make sure vitiligo was properly represented in the design of the doll.

You’ll also find a Barbie doll with no hair in the new range, a reflection of both the trends we see out in the world and of the realities of hair loss. Back in 2019, Barbie introduced dolls with disabilities—one has a prosthetic limb, another uses a wheelchair. For that launch, Mattel collaborated with a 12-year-old named Jordan Reeves who “is on a mission to build creative solutions that help kids with disabilities, to create a play experience that is as representative as possible.” For 2020, the brand has added a doll with a darker skin tone who uses a (very fabulous) gold prosthetic limb.

The brand adds that the steps its taken to become more diverse and inclusive have resonated with the public. According to Mattel, over half the dolls offered in 2019 were a departure from the original Barbie and the top selling doll for almost every week of last year was a curvy black doll from its Fashionista line who wears her hair in an afro. In the UK, one in four dolls sold is a Barbie with a wheelchair.

We can’t wait to see what’s next.



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Wedding Trend: Double Proposals Are the Inclusive Trend We Need


It’s been a running joke that I wasn’t allowed to propose to my girlfriend. Since the early stages of our relationship she’s been adamant: she’ll do the proposing one day. I didn’t feel strongly one way or the other, so I agreed. Then, in late August 2018—ten years after we’d met—she got down on one knee on the beach and asked me to marry her. I barely had time to gaze down at my ring or think about the chain of phone calls we needed to make to share the good news before it hit me: Am I supposed to get her a ring, too?

I hadn’t really thought about the idea that maybe my wife-to-be needs a token to signify she’s engaged, too. Though I was in a same-sex relationship, I was so used to the standard story of proposals that I didn’t stop to consider anything different. But the more I thought about my fiancee and her love of big moments, the more fitting it seemed that I propose to her too. Asking someone to spend their life with you is a hugely important question—why shouldn’t she be asked?

Double Proposals Are Gaining Steam—And Changing the Wedding Industry

I decided to propose back to my partner, not knowing that I was taking part in a growing wedding trend within the LGBTQ+ community called “double proposing.” The idea is fairly self-explanatory: two people propose to each other, either the same day or at different times.

Queer people have been creating our own unique traditions for years, but only since same-sex marriage became legal in all fifty states have marriage traditions—and the wedding trends surrounding them—begun to catch up. “The LGBTQ community is changing the industry by demanding more of the vendors who work in it, being intentional with who they give their money to, and reinventing traditions to celebrate instead of hide their queer identities,” says Ainsley Blattel, a queer and non-binary wedding planner with event planning company Modern Rebel.

For me, double proposing to my fiancee was an exciting and reflective time to really surprise my partner the same way she wowed me. Instead of a ring, I bought her a custom locket she’d been talking about since we’d met. It was amazing to see the genuine surprise on her face when she turned to find me down on one knee nine months after she’d asked me to marry her.

More Proposals, More Power

So many facets of relationships are bogged down by centuries’ worth of gender stereotypes. For those feeling the pressure, double proposing can be empowering way to rethink the way romance is “supposed” to look—especially for those who don’t identify as a specific gender. “I’d often been the partner to buy flowers, and perform romantic gestures,” says Addie Tsai, 39. “I realized when I met my partner that I’d always felt more comfortable in that role but because of gender conditioning. But he allowed me to occupy a different space than I had before and it was through our relationship I started to uncover how genderfluid and nonbinary I truly am.”

Tsai and their partner double proposed two weeks apart over the holidays. “Double proposing neutralizes the way you enter into a marriage from the beginning, without having the gendered burden of proposing on one person or the other,” says Tsai. For many, it’s an antidote to the heteronormative expectations that follow couples of all orientations.

While smashing gender expectations can be fun, a lot of couples double propose simply to celebrate their equal partnership with one another. Rebekah Giley, 30 and her partner Breda, 32, first started thinking about a double proposal when they realized they had totally different ideas of how a proposal should look: Breda definitely wanted someone taking photos with lots of people around, while Rebekah had a totally private proposal in mind.”We kinda looked at each other and then I said, ‘we could both propose to each other,’ and Breda agreed,” Giley says. “I think the biggest thing was that we both got the proposal we wanted. Especially because we wanted such opposite things, it was really lovely and fun to both see our dreams fulfilled.”



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Zendaya Just Showed Everyone How an Inclusive Fashion Show Is Done


Zendaya has a solid reputation as champion for inclusivity—and her ventures in fashion are no exception. This week in her first TommyNow collection with Tommy Hilfiger at Paris Fashion Week Zendaya showed the entire industry how to put on an inclusive—and fun—fashion show.

Inspired by disco-era designs, the Tommy x Zendaya was a party filled with colorful clothing, and top models of color in a full spectrum of sizes. In a fashion week that tends to run exceptionally low on showing women outside sample sizes, it was a major standout in the best way. Unfortunately for our wallets (but fortunately for our late-winter style ruts), the whole collection is shoppable online now too.

The inspiration behind her groovy show requires a little history lesson. Back in 1973, French and American top designers (think Givenchy and Dior, Halston and Oscar de la Renta) faced off in Paris in the “Battle of Versailles,” a challenge to see if America could overcome its reputation of being the “poor country cousin to French couture,” as WWD explained in an interview with Zendaya. The Americans wound up the victor, thanks to modern designs and designer Stephen Burrows’ casting of black models who brought it on the runway with “fun-loving attitudes and moves” that “stole the show” reports WWD. They also broke major ground for future women of color. It’s from this headline-making show that Zendaya and her stylist, Law Roach, told WWD that they drew inspiration.

“We’re paying homage to these women who changed our legacy…and allowed for me and so many others to be here. I remember when my Vogue cover came out, Beverly Johnson [the first African American model to land the cover of American Vogue] tweeted me congratulations, and I said this wouldn’t be possible without you,” said Zendaya. “This is about saying we appreciate and love you.”

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Zendaya also said that size diversity was critical for her as they went to cast the show—a first for the Tommy Hilfiger runway.

“Size inclusivity has been important to me always—if women in my family can’t all wear it, I don’t want to make it,” Zendaya told WWD “We had plus size models, which Tommy has never done before.”

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“Ten plus[-size] girls out here from New York,” Roach added. “[Zendaya] pushes me to say it has to be everyone, she’s changed my idea of what should and shouldn’t be for women.”

Hilfiger also told WWD that casting the show was up to the duo. “I said, ‘Do what you think is best.’ Obviously a couple of girls have been in our family, Winnie Harlow is one, so I said make sure they are included. But they really chose.”

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Harlow walked in a chic red-and-white striped dress.

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Winnie Harlow walks the TommyNow runway.

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Dilone walked, too.

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As did Grace Bol.

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And to top it all off, there was a cameo from the inimitable Grace Jones.

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Grace Jones makes a cameo during the show.

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And by Pat Cleveland, who walked in the original Battle of Versailles.

Twitter, of course, was all over it:

More of this inclusion at all Fashion Week shows, please.



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Glossier Just Made Its Shade Range Way More Inclusive for Women of Color


Glossier knows how to market a product. From its Cloud Paint gel-cream blush to its Lash Slick Mascara, every launch the millennial-favorite brand churns out is met with extreme fanfare—with one glaring exception. Where the brand excels in its pink packaging and “your-skin-but-better” formulations, the shade range has long left women of color with more to be desired.

But this morning, Glossier took a page out of Beyoncé’s book by announcing an unexpected expansion of its most popular complexion products. As part of the rollout, its doubling the number of shades of its Perfecting Skin Tint (which gives coverage somewhere in-between a foundation and a BB Cream) and along with its Stretch Concealer (both will now have 12). While Wowder, its loose blurring powder that previously only came in Light, Medium, and Rich, now comes in five shades. The brand’s also doing away with its naming conventions and instead is now labeling shades from G1 to G12—starting with the richest shades, which is a first for Glossier.

Unsurprisingly, the brand credits the launch to the feedback it got from women of color—most specifically, the concerns raised on Glossier Brown, an Instagram account created by blogger Devin McGhee with a mission to provide a platform and community for people of color. Last year, the account (which showcases the brand’s products on “brown-skinned beauties”) even got the attention of founder Emily Weiss.

McGhee, for her part, is glad the brand finally took feedback into consideration. After all, as Fenty Beauty has proven, any brand that isn’t catering to a larger range of skin tones is getting left in the dust. Your brand can be buzzy, sure, but not catering to diverse women is a definite way to miss out on profit—or perhaps worse in the social media age, face backlash. “Women of color, black women specifically, spend more money than any other demographic on cosmetics,”she says. “I believe this is mainly because we are constantly having to purchase multiple shades and mix our own to find a match. It can be discouraging and slightly taxing on our pockets. But, until there are more women of color in leadership positions at beauty companies, it will continue to affect what is or is not produced for us. If women of color are not amongst the people included in the conversations at the top, it will always show, as it directly affects who is fighting for diversity and inclusion within the beauty industry.”

As brands continue to look inward at their leadership, she says it’s also on execs to foster “simple conversations” around diversity and inclusion. “Glossier has opened the door for the ongoing conversation with me continuously,” she says, adding that the brand has been “genuinely interested” in learning more about what she and her followers have to say.

Given that Glossier Brown has become such a resource for people of color to share hacks and product reccs, it only made sense that McGhee was the first to break the news and share a first look of the products on. “@devinkielle wearing Perfecting Skin Tint in G3, Stretch Concealer in G3, Cloud Paint in Storm, and Haloscope in Topaz. TOMORROW,” she wrote on Instagram. Many Glossier Brown members rushed to the comments with questions about her cryptic caption. “Is G3 a new color range of skin tint/concealer? I have the skin tint in Rich and I think it’s a little too dark and the concealer in skin tint is my skin shade,” one user wrote.

McGhee, who says she previously had to mix two of the original Skin Tints and Stretch Concealers (Deep and Rich) during the winter months for a match, now says her perfect shade is G3: “I definitely feel the new shades provide a truer match to actual skin tone—no more mixing!”





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Rihanna's Fenty Beauty Is Launching an Inclusive Line of Concealers in 50 Shades


When Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, she did so with 40 different shades of foundation. This inclusive debut collection—and its massive success—disrupted the beauty industry, making it clear to other makeup brands that there was a demand for a wide, diverse range of tones. Rihanna pretty much set a new standard in the space. And she’s not stopping.

Rihanna announced that Fenty Beauty will be introducing Pro Filt’r Concealers. And they’ll be even more inclusive than the brand’s initial launch, available in 50 shades to suit customers’ skin tones. Oh, and you don’t have to wait long to shop them—the drop is only 10 days away.

Giving life to hungover souls on New Year’s Day, Fenty posted a few Instagrams on January 1 to announce the launch. “New year, New #FENTYBEAUTY! ??‍♀️ We got #THECURE to your #newyearseve hangover! On January 11, we’re dropping 50 BRAND NEW shades of creamy, creaseproof, and longwearing #PROFILTRCONCEALER! Get it at fentybeauty.com, @sephora, @harveynichols, and #SephorainJCP!!”

That’s right: In less than two weeks, Fenty Beauty’s Pro Filt’r Concealers will be shoppable at FentyBeauty.com, Sephora (both in stand-alone stores and those in J.C. Penney)—and, for anyone reading this across the pond, at Harvey Nichols.

“We all got a lil’ something to cover up!” reads another Instagram from Fenty announcing the launch. “Blemishes, dark circles, bags, and even hangovers, #PROFILTRCONCEALER is #THECURE to hiding it all in a creamy formula that’s longwearing and creaseproof. Who’s ready to get it on January 11??”

Rihanna herself put up a Pro Filt’r Concealer video tutorial on Youtube, so we know exactly how to apply it when the time comes.

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The product covers; it brightens; it can even be used as highlighter (she applies it on the bridge of her nose and brow bone.) In the video, Rihanna that if you know your Pro Filt’r Foundation shade, there’s a concealer shade that corresponds—taking the guesswork out of finding the perfect shade. She also eliminated one of our pet concealer peeves: “Especially with a formula like this that dries down and matifies eventually, you expect it to start getting tacky, but this formula does not,” she says in the video.

Also dropping January 11? Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r Setting Powder in eight translucent shades…

… plus, 10 more Pro Filt’r Foundation Shades—to match the 50 concealer shades, naturally—and great new tools to complement the products: a Powder Puff Setting Brush, Lil Precision Makeup Sponge Duo, and a Concealer Precision Brush.

Here’s to a 2019 full of Fenty—and more inclusivity in the beauty industry.

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Here's Your First Look at Universal Thread, Target's Inclusive New Fashion Line


Earlier this month, Target announced that a new label would be joining its roster of in-house fashion brands: a denim-based and -inspired collection titled Universal Thread. Set to launch in February, the line will encompass apparel, shoes, and accessories—all under $40. As if that weren’t enough reason to be excited, Target revealed Universal Thread’s offerings would be entirely size-inclusive from the get-go. Now, Glamour has a first look at its inaugural assortment, which is heavy on all things denim.

“Denim is a part of every woman’s wardrobe,” Mark Tritton, Target’s Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer, tells Glamour. “In developing this brand, we conducted research with nearly 1,000 women from across the country to better understand their needs when it comes to shopping denim. What we heard from nearly all of them was that they dreaded shopping for new jeans. Whether the rise was too long or the inseam was too short or the pair of jeans they wanted didn’t come in their size—finding the perfect fit for their body type was just too challenging. That’s a problem we wanted to solve.” To do so, Target looked to its other recent fashion launches (from A New Day to JoyLab), as well as holes it saw in the market as it was developing Universal Thread. The result: a comprehensive collection that’s founded in denim but not limited by it, and features a range of styles, fits, and silhouettes at an accessible price point.

Over the past year, Target has focused its efforts on its in-house brands. The end of Merona allowed for the rise of A New Day, JoyLab, and now, Universal Thread, among other labels. (The latter is Target’s “11th brand in our reimagined assortment,” per Tritton.) Universal Thread will be the first of these brands to launch with an entirely size-inclusive apparel assortment. “When we introduced A New Day, a portion of the assortment was offered in a full range of sizes—guests responded really well to that, so we’re offering all apparel within Universal Thread in sizes 00-26W,” Tritton explains. It will also feature a selection of adaptive styles, for differently-abled shoppers. (The retailer first added adaptive and sensory-friendly apparel to its Cat & Jack children’s line back in October.)

“Of the brands we launched in 2017, results and guest response have been strong, with all brands posting positive comps since launch,” he continues. “Guests will see newness in Universal Thread each month, whether that’s seasonal pieces like shorts and tanks for summer, or fashion items based on new trends.”

Ahead of the February launch, check out the first drop of Universal Thread, where prices will start at $5 and cap out at $39.99.



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