Overview
- The second edition, which took place Friday at New York’s Altman Building, presented six concept collections that treated hairstyling as high art.
- Celebrity stylist Jawara Wauchope and creative director Jrod Lacks led the presentation, produced by Echelon Noir to center Black creatives in beauty.
- Works by Fesa Nu, Joshua Meekins, Vernon François, Issac Poleon, Malcolm Marquez, and Wauchope explored themes from metamorphosis to the divine feminine.
- The production was powered by Square and Dove and sponsored by Dove, Amika, L’Oréal Professionnel, Eadem, and Fara Homidi Beauty, with True Hair Company donating extensions.
- Echelon Noir aligned the platform with Dove’s Crown Coalition and L’Oréal’s Texture of Change, signaling a sustained push to link creative authorship to inclusion efforts.