
ESSENCE’s Style Stars: The Black Fashion Icons Of The Year
These celebrities dominated 2025 with unforgettable style, serving looks that are both bold and timeless.

These celebrities dominated 2025 with unforgettable style, serving looks that are both bold and timeless.

Bottega Alum Matthieu Blazy made history at his Chanel debut.

In our weekly fashion catch-up, we like to update the girls on what’s going on in all corners of the fashion world.

The natural beauty made the switch from fluffy waves to straight tresses, showing us just how easy it is to achieve the look.

The ‘Bones and All’ actress attended Dior’s spring-summer 2026 show in a short, curly cut reminiscent of the classic Whitney Houston.

The 24-year-old singer attended Jonathan Anderson’s Dior debut looking every bit of cool.

The rapper went classic with dark curls and red lip for her front row look.

Here’s to couture, where high fashion feels like home to us.

Makeup maven Pat McGrath referenced Black women and black-and-white photography in this season's couture beauty look.

This makes Kerby Jean-Raymond the first-ever Black American designer invited to present.

So this is what we’re doing at Paris Fashion Week now?

Hairstylist Sandrine Diah and makeup artist Erika La’ Pearl share everything that went into creating all seven of the rapper’s front row beauty looks from the spring/summer 2025 shows.

From Acne Studios '50s housewife pixies to Junya Watanabe Ex Machina makeup, take a look at the top beauty moments from Paris Fashion Week.

Trends not limited to cargo denim jeans, vivacious knits, colorful fur coats, and more were shot by Seleen Saleh.

At the Spring/Summer 2025 presentations, an air of distinction and experimentation ran rampant at design houses such as Chloé and Loewe.

For day seven of PFW, show goers served us polished glam and statement lips.

Stars flocked to Paris to attend presentations but also to showcase their creativity alongside their stylists who toiled away which led to exuberant outfits.

For day six of PFW, show goers rocked jet black silky strands, blonde pixie cuts, chic buns, and more.

Monochromatic outfits, chic layers, and pops of color were captured throughout a fashion-filled day in Paris by photographer Seleen Saleh.

Day five of PFW SS25 featured a love letter to blue eye makeup and middle parts from show attendees.