Husband-and-wife team Ayo Agbede and Farai Simoyi merged what were originally two separate Bed-Stuy businesses…
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Husband-and-wife team Ayo Agbede and Farai Simoyi merged what were originally two separate Bed-Stuy businesses…
Paperboy Love Prince is easily one of Brooklyn’s most prolific multi-hyphenates. Among other accomplishments, the 28-year-old is an activist, rapper…
“I take Brooklyn to the world, and I bring the world back to Brooklyn,” says Michael Graham, designer and owner of the clothing boutique Savant Studios…
Margie Toney, owner of Style Eyes Optical Boutique, is quick to remind you: eyewear is FASHION…
Krystal Cummings, owner of the cosmetic tattoo studio Browstress, wasn’t always into beauty stuff. Before pursuing her license…
Owned by married couple Nicole and Michael Nicholas, the multi-hyphenate Flatbush oasis…
Growing up as Brooklyn kids, Frantz "Face" Farnoille, Michelle Cadore, and Tyler Jordan frequented Albee Square and the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn for much of their teen years. Buying jewelry, sneakers and clothes after school, it was...
To hear Nnenna Stella tell it, rocking a headwrap isn’t a mere fashion statement. It’s an emotional event. “You put one on, and it’s like an instant shift in how you walk, how you express yourself…
A couple years back, our household committed to using only all-natural, Black-owned body products (bye, Vaseline and Jergens). Skin been shea butter glistenin’ ever since! Among our most prized…
In 1994, Moshood not only opened his flagship store in Fort Greene; the Nigerian-born designer also held his first annual community fashion show, right out on…
Rony Byas (left) and Harvey Leon, co-owners of Byas & Leon boutique, are native New Yorkers — born in Queens and Brooklyn, respectively. But don’t get it twisted. “We Haitian Haitian,” Harvey says of their strong cultural ties …
“I’m one of the oldheads around here,” says Glen Ettienne, owner of De Lux Gallery, a natural hair salon in Fort Greene. Reminiscing back to 2000 — when he moved to Brooklyn from his native Trinidad, then working as a…
“The way tattooing came about, it’s mostly from cultures of people of color,” says tattoo artist Doreen Garner. “But with the imagery that’s celebrated in American traditional styles of tattooing…
Papa Rozier Farms, a Bushwick boutique specializing in all-natural beauty products, carries some of the best skin and hair moisturizers we’ve tried. But managing the gorgeously designed storefront, owned by…
They’re tucked inside a Brownsville shopping plaza, but you can’t miss Jeffrey Beauty Supply. A banner displayed above the front door shouts: “1. Black Owned 2. Customer Centric 3. Product Knowledgeable.”
“While all women have some experiences of being dissatisfied when it comes to their beauty routines, I think Black women get the real short end of the stick,” says Stephanie Louis, owner of Stylebox Salon…
Back in 2012, two years after Nilea Alexander married her husband Lamine Diagne, the couple took stock of the new businesses popping around their Crown Heights neighborhood…
“That’s the number one question I get,” Ty Holloway, designer and owner of MILES Culture, says with a smile. “No, my name is not Miles.” But the name of the Crown Heights…
Despite her talents, when Raven Voorhees started training as a nail technician, she didn’t imagine sticking with it for the long run. “It wasn’t common to see Black girls doing nails, so I felt out of place for a very long time…
“Wear Moshood - Wear yourself.” This slogan for the iconic boutique is all we’ve got in terms of quotes because Moshood told us he doesn’t give interviews. (A cursory Google search says otherwise, but it’s cool,…
