Women’s History Month may be over, but we recognize Black women all year round (24/7, 365 Days) for their numerous contributions to society, culture and our daily lives. We at Essence, want to ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten. By Vanessa Friedman Last October ...

The third theme in “Women Designing Women” is agency, which deals with fashion from 1968 to today and charts the progression from what Van Godtsenhoven calls “the boutique generation” to ...

A glance at a list of McCardell’s innovations provides a crash course in just how limited—and limiting—fashion options once were for American women.

In 1950, fashion designer Claire McCardell was honored by the female journalists of Washington at a gala attended by President Harry S. Truman. The Frederick, Md., native had given them and other ...