Discover the top 10 fashion trends for ESSENCE Festival 2024, from micro shorts to leopard prints. Elevate your style and stand out with these chic outfit ideas by fashion stylist Carmen Davis.

In this article, our fashion expert, Carmen Davis, shares her top tips and insights on how to stay both chic and comfortable while traveling this fall. Whether you're hitting the streets of New York City or exploring the cozy corners of Texas, we've got you covered with the latest fashion trends.

Despite the experiences, oppositions, struggles, trauma, and tragedies perpetuated by the injustice we have encountered, we, as Black women, have always carried ourselves with resiliency, elegance, authenticity, and grace. And fashion has served as a way to express these traits creatively.

A theory is an idea about how something works. Something has gone through rigorous testing, observations, and experiments designed to prove the idea right or wrong. But in creative theory, the idea is grounded in a definition of creativity of producing ideas and outcomes. We exercise our uniqueness, our empathy levers, creative thinking skills, and humanness in an innovative approach to design.

So here, in this space, we take that approach and explore the creative theoretical evolution of the durag and its relationship to the Outdoors.