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What doesn’t Target have? A question that isn’t easily answered.
While the popular retailer has created a striking beauty market for its clientele—which includes a number of Black-owned brands—the company is also celebrating 20 years of design.
Target has maintained their reputation as a destination for affordable and trendy fashion pieces over the past two decades, with new initiatives to bring in more Black designers this year. This was the discussion between Grammy Award-winning singer Anthony Hamilton and Target’s Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer CarolineWanga at ESSENCE Fashion House NYC on Thursday, Sept 5th.
Hamilton specifically cited Instagram as a primary platform for discovering new Black designers to support.
Although it is a platform for pictures, it’s a great place to connect,” he said. “And there’s a ton of Black fashion designers out there that are ready and available to work.”
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While Target has put great effort into expanding its beauty display, the fashion has always delivered; it’s easy to find a quick statement piece that will warrant plenty of compliments. But according to Wanga, Target is now broadening its offerings by including more Black-owned brands and elevating tits offerings.
Hamilton and Wanga’s dialogue also explored the importance of Black creatives in the fashion space and how much revenue and influence our community has.
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Target’s history of collaborative fashion already boasts a stan-worthy clientele list, so we can only imagine what this new initiative will bring.
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