She’s giving us yet one more reason to like her a lot more, launching her jewelry line C1V1L consisting of rings, lockets and also arm bands which vary from ₤ 150 to ₤ 5,000.
From being one of Rihanna’s chosen few to front Fenty Beauty, to providing us with a degree of female empowerment as well as confidence each day, Slick Woods is the version transforming the video game.
In regular Slick Woods fashion, the collection is equally as awesome as she is. To start with, it’s unisex and it mostly utilizes semi-precious metals. Think a tidy, architectural and also contemporary visual.
Over and over again we’re seeing black culture being used as the catalyst for fashion collections, beauty and also culture at huge, yet frequently individuals behind the brand names aren’t individuals of colour, let alone females of colour.
“We are supposed to captivate everyone with our words as well as the method we talk and also we are simply expected to dance and sing. I’m attempting to be king. I’m not attempting to be the jester” states Slick in a meeting with Business of Fashion concerning the exploitation of black society.
Joining pressures with a choice of her friends as well as Jerry Media, the company behind the subject on Fyre Festival, the brand name prepares to invest 20% of its profits back right into various other minority and also female-owned firms.
Jerry Media’s Managing Director, Blakely Thornton, added: “There is a concern of the culture being commoditised but we are not the proprietors of that. Even if you’re pushing it as well as it’s getting a positive media reception, it’s frustrating seeing that the actual economic capital is going back to the very same area, back to the top of that pyramid”.
Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a launch day introduced for the brand name’s initial collection, however like the rest people, you’ll need to deal with the intros in the meantime.