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Fashion week has begun! · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 3: of The Grind, I am literally headed out to a
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Speaker 3: Fashion Week show right now.
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Speaker 1: scenes of The Grind. Let's do it real quick. I
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Speaker 4: Back on The Grind. The Grind, baby.
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Speaker 3: I'm literally headed out right now to a fashion show.
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Speaker 3: Shout out to New York Fashion Week and the kickoff
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Speaker 3: of New York Fashion Week that started here Thursday, September 10th.
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Speaker 3: And it is going to carry on until next week.
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Speaker 3: I've been out and about ripping and running after we
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Speaker 3: do the podcast, after we do the Breakfast Club all week.
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Speaker 3: I'm headed to Romeo Hunt's fashion show. He is a
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Speaker 3: black designer, black male designer. Romeo Hunt is one of
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Speaker 3: the designers that actually dressed me a lot when I
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Speaker 3: was covering the Diddy Trial show. Um, and I, you know,
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Speaker 3: it was weird. I got pushed back for that a
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Speaker 3: little bit. Like people were like, you so focused on
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Speaker 3: the outlet outfits. You're not focused on the job. And
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Speaker 3: for me, I felt like if I look good and
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Speaker 3: I felt good going, I'll be comfortable about being able
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Speaker 3: to turn on my phone, place it up and cover
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Speaker 3: these things that I was, uh, literally seeing in real
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Speaker 3: time with you guys. Like that's always been my attitude.
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Speaker 3: If you look good, you feel good and you operate good.
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Speaker 4: And it worked.
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Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of you guys tuned in here
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Speaker 3: on the latest with Lorna Rosa, the podcast for the
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Speaker 3: Diddy trial podcast. I meet people all the time who
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Speaker 3: tell me that, like, you know, outside of Breakfast Club,
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Speaker 3: they really started paying attention to me as an independent
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Speaker 3: voice in media and storytelling and recapping from Diddy's trial.
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Speaker 3: And Romeo Hunt was a big part of that because
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Speaker 3: they provided the looks that, you know, I was wearing.
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Speaker 3: And don't get me wrong, like, the trial was no joke.
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Speaker 3: There was a lot of things that were involved in
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Speaker 3: the trial, a lot of, like, dark, negative things, actually. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, if all I could do that day to
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Speaker 3: kind of, like, up my spirit and try to give
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Speaker 3: me some energy— was make sure that like, I felt
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Speaker 3: good about walking into the courtroom. I felt confident about,
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Speaker 3: you know, coming on air and talking to you guys.
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Speaker 3: I appreciated it because man, that eight weeks kicked my behind.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how attorneys do it.
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Speaker 1: I was exhausted. My voice was gone.
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Speaker 3: There were days I had to take literally like mental
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Speaker 3: days of like, I just, I can't do all this
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Speaker 3: right now. Um, because of, you know, some of the
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Speaker 3: allegations and the evidence we were seeing, it was a lot. Um,
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Speaker 3: but I appreciate, and I say all that to say,
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Speaker 3: I appreciate Romeo Hunt. So whenever he has something here
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Speaker 3: in New I try and show up for him because
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Speaker 3: his brand shows up for me, and that is the
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Speaker 3: importance of supporting up-and-coming creatives, up-and-coming talent, especially if you, listen,
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Speaker 3: I'm a black woman. I support black designers like no other.
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Speaker 3: Romeo Hunt being one of my favorites. So today he's
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Speaker 3: showing at Fashion Week, and we are headed over there
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Speaker 3: to do that. But that leads us, honestly, right into
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Speaker 3: the latest. We're going to get right on into it.
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Speaker 3: Because speaking of black designers, black creatives, black artists, up-and-coming,
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Speaker 3: already coming, already there.
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Speaker 1: Whoa, pause.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if I should have said that part
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Speaker 3: of it. But speaking of us, I want to tell
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Speaker 3: you guys about a company. an organization, a movement that
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Speaker 3: I love that has become my family. It's Harlem's Fashion Row.
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Speaker 3: You guys will remember last year I talked a lot
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Speaker 3: about this event and about this organization and the kickoff
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Speaker 3: show that they do because we also attended their Style
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Speaker 3: Awards Gala and their fashion show last year. But we
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Speaker 3: kicked off Fashion Week there again this year, and it
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Speaker 3: was amazing. Harlem's Fashion Row centers and focuses on highlighting
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Speaker 3: designers of colors and Color, they partner with brands.
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Speaker 1: There's a nonprofit arm.
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Speaker 3: You know, there was a designer who I actually had
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Speaker 3: the chance to wear that was awarded $ 100, 000 the night
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Speaker 3: that we attended this, you know, gala award show and
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Speaker 3: fashion show that I'm going to be talking to you
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Speaker 3: guys about tonight.
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Speaker 1: Her name is.
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Speaker 3: Juana Chancy and Atelier Indigo is her brand. And she
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Speaker 3: showed her spring-summer 2027 collection while at the Harlem's Fashion
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Speaker 3: Row Style Awards and Gala to kick off Fashion Week
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Speaker 3: that we attended. But she was also awarded almost like
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Speaker 3: a scholarship of $ 100, 000 that she can now sew back
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Speaker 3: into her business, which is so needed. And a lot
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Speaker 3: of designers of color don't get those type of opportunities.
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Speaker 3: So Harlem's Fashion Row, you can't tell me nothing about them.
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Speaker 3: Shout out to Brandice. Shout out to Brenda's Daniel, who
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Speaker 3: is the creator and founder of Harlem's Fashion Row and
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Speaker 3: all the work that she is doing out there to
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Speaker 3: keep us center conversation because we are, as we know,
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Speaker 3: the inspo, the creators in the beginning of the things.
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Speaker 3: But let's get into the night. You have Brandon Blackwood.
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Speaker 3: He was named as the designer of the year. This
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Speaker 3: is the 19th year that they have done the Harlem
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Speaker 3: Fashion Row Style Awards and Gala. Brandon Blackwood, for those
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Speaker 3: of you guys who do not know, is a designer
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Speaker 3: who specializes in handbags and Watching his come up has
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Speaker 3: been amazing. He's one of those people that really took
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Speaker 3: a chance and bet it on himself. And now he's
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Speaker 3: on these big stages. So it was amazing to be
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Speaker 3: able to be there and see him and witness that.
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Speaker 3: But then we also had Jalil Weaver. Now, a lot
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Speaker 3: of you guys may not know Jalil Weaver by name,
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Speaker 3: but I'm telling you, you know him by his fashion
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Speaker 3: sense and his work because he is Rihanna's stylist and designer.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Rihanna kills it every time, pregnant, not pregnant.
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Speaker 3: But one of the things that people point to most
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Speaker 3: is how Rihanna literally changed the conversation around pregnancy fashion
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Speaker 3: and how women do it.
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Speaker 1: Jaleel Weaver is at the helm of that.
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Speaker 3: He was named Stylist of the Year this year at
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Speaker 3: the 19th Annual Harlem Fashion Row Style Awards and Gala.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to his speech. It was amazing
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Speaker 1: to hear.
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Speaker 2: Well, you need a good one. Thank you to the
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Speaker 2: Romance Classroom for this incredible honor. I accept this award
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Speaker 2: with immense gratitude, but also with the feeling that there
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Speaker 2: is still so much ahead of me. So much more
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Speaker 2: to learn, so much more to create, so much more, more, really,
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Speaker 2: to contribute. Because of the work that's being done, and
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Speaker 2: all the work that I've been supposed to do, the
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Speaker 2: work that's being done.
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Speaker 4: Some of them told.
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Speaker 2: Me that part of my legacy would be measured by
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Speaker 2: the people I've mentored and brought along with me.
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Speaker 5: I've carried that thought with me ever since.
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Speaker 4: As a first-person family born in.
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Speaker 2: America, I understand the importance of opportunity.
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Speaker 6: And it was.
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Speaker 4: Something to do with the opportunity of the American program.
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't be standing here without the opportunities that were
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Speaker 5: afforded to me.
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Speaker 2: And there are many people I have to thank for that.
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Speaker 5: So much of the work that has shaped me that
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Speaker 5: I expanded my creativity and my understanding.
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Speaker 2: Of what is possible and what not exists is valid. Brianna.
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Speaker 5: Brianna, thank you for being the person who would recognize
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Speaker 5: my talent, my potential, and more importantly, for seeing something
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Speaker 5: in me before I could see it necessarily in myself.
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Speaker 2: You gave me an opportunity that changed the course of
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Speaker 2: my life.
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Speaker 5: The trust you placed in me and the freedom you
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Speaker 5: gave me to create without.
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Speaker 2: Limitation have been amongst one of the greatest gifts of
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Speaker 2: my career.
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Speaker 4: And usually not.
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Speaker 2: My best friend, my collaborator, her client, prepares just to
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Speaker 2: send me this award. Four years ago, when I decided
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Speaker 2: to venture out on my own and start my.
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Speaker 5: Own company, over there from the very beginning, he believed
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Speaker 5: in me enough to become my first client.
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Speaker 7: So thank.
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Speaker 8: You.
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Speaker 9: Someone else has.
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Speaker 2: Told me you're always going.
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Speaker 4: To need a team.
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Speaker 5: I'd like to thank Aaliyah, after 10 years of working together, I.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't imagine doing any of this without you.
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Speaker 5: To Gianni, Esteban, Gabriel, and every assistant I've ever had
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Speaker 5: the pleasure.
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Speaker 2: Of working with, thank you.
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Speaker 5: So much of what I'm being recognized for tonight wouldn't
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Speaker 5: exist without your drive, your commitment, your ideas, your patience,
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Speaker 5: and the care you bring to the work. Thank you
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Speaker 5: to all the artists, designers, editors, creative collaborators, who trusted
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Speaker 5: my ideas, and to my friends.
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Speaker 2: And family who supported me through it all.
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Speaker 5: Without the trust and generosity of the people I've mentioned
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Speaker 5: tonight and countless others, my life and my career would
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Speaker 5: look very different, and I don't take any of it
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Speaker 5: for granted. They say those who live the most blessed
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Speaker 5: lives are the quickest to share their blessings.
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Speaker 2: More than the images we've created or the.
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Speaker 5: Moments we've captured, I know a part of what I've
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Speaker 5: become is a legacy of opportunities. asking for the same relief, access,
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Speaker 5: and chances that others were generous.
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Speaker 2: Enough to give me.
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Speaker 7: Thank you again.
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Speaker 5: To Harlow's Fashion Row for recognizing me and for the work.
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Speaker 2: You continue to do in creating those opportunities. I'm incredibly
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Speaker 2: honored and I'm excited to keep doing more.
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Speaker 3: And Tracee Ellis Ross was there, one of our favorite girls.
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Speaker 3: She was there talking about her brand, Pattern Beauty. But
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Speaker 3: more importantly, Tracee Ellis Ross is somebody that shows up
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Speaker 3: for us.
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Speaker 1: I've seen her.
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Speaker 3: I've never met her, really, but I've seen her at
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Speaker 3: the Harlem's Fashion Row event both years that I was there.
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Speaker 3: She shows up for them in really, really big ways,
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Speaker 3: and that matters. When you are a celebrity with influence,
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Speaker 3: with a platform that people look at, who you stand
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Speaker 3: next to and what you stand on and what you
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Speaker 3: care about and what you voice really, really matters. And
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Speaker 3: what I love about Tracee Ellis Ross is that she
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Speaker 3: does it without even needing the recognition. She does it
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Speaker 3: because she understands and from like a real deep place
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Speaker 3: in her soul. And we support her pattern beauty and
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Speaker 3: all the things that she's doing because she's always supporting us. Um,
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Speaker 3: but she spoke, she opened up the gala.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 10: Um, As Brandon said, I've been a part of this
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Speaker 10: community since 2013, which is so cool. I received the
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Speaker 10: icon award, and that was just yesterday.
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Speaker 11: In 2015.
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Speaker 7: 2015 is a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: I took part in.
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Speaker 10: The problem in Scottsboro during the digital event in 2020,
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Speaker 10: when we were sheltered in place.
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Speaker 7: And I have the.
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Speaker 10: Honor of presenting the editor of the year award to
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Speaker 10: my best friend, Samira, in 2024.
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Speaker 7: And boy, is it nice that the event is in
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Speaker 7: this room.
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Speaker 4: It's so wonderful in here.
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Speaker 8: But tonight, I am here as the founder, owner, and
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Speaker 8: co-CEO of Adam Beauty, the.
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Speaker 4: Official amp and body sponsor of this year's celebration, from.
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Speaker 7: Honoree to sponsor.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 7: I like that.
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Speaker 4: Adam's got you.
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Speaker 2: Soup to nuts.
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Speaker 7: Wash, treat, style and eat.
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Speaker 4: Scrub, wash, hydrate, look.
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Speaker 7: Now, now.
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Speaker 4: Let me just do it one more time, I was
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Speaker 4: very loose at all, but Pattern's got you.
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Speaker 7: Suit to nuts, wash, treat, style, heat, scrub, wash, hydrate.
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Speaker 4: And glow. And now you know.
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Speaker 7: For seven years.
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Speaker 12: Pattern has been centered around black beauty in all ways
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Speaker 12: that we express ourselves, through our curls, coils, and tight textures.
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Speaker 7: And for 19 years, Harlem's.
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Speaker 12: Fashion Row has helped space for black.
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Speaker 10: Designers and creatives to be seen, celebrated, and supported.
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Speaker 13: Havre is honored to support Harlem's Fashion Row.
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Speaker 7: We are a really good match.
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Speaker 8: Grandmas and the Harlem Fashion Row team, thank you for
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Speaker 8: continuing to.
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Speaker 13: Build a platform that celebrates our creativity, honors our brilliance,
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Speaker 13: and plants the seeds of.
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Speaker 7: Possibility for the next generation. Congratulations to all of the
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Speaker 7: designers and honorees tonight.
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Speaker 13: Let's celebrate 19 years of Harlan's Fashion Road.
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Speaker 3: Now, when we talk about Brandis, I'm going to tell
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Speaker 3: you guys right now, it is... sometimes hard to find,
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Speaker 3: you know, people who understand you as a new and
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Speaker 3: growing creative. Brandice is somebody that me and her, you know,
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Speaker 3: we connected in passing and got a lot more acquainted
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Speaker 3: when I actually worked with Harlem's Fashion Row last year
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Speaker 3: during Fashion Week as an influencer.
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Speaker 1: And she has been so supportive.
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Speaker 3: When I went to the 2026 BET Awards, that black
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Speaker 3: dress that you guys saw me in that a lot
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Speaker 3: of people loved, that was a black designer that you know, Brandis,
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Speaker 3: if it wasn't for Brandis and Harlem's Fashion Row, I
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Speaker 3: would not have known about this designer. Megan Renee. Literally,
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Speaker 3: I met her through the organization. And that is what
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Speaker 3: Harlem's Fashion Row is all about and paying it forward.
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Speaker 3: And I was actually blessed to be a walking, literally
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Speaker 3: walking ambassador for the Susan G. Coleman Foundation, which are,
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Speaker 3: you know, they are leaders in breast cancer when it
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Speaker 3: comes to patient care, research, and just resources. I was
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Speaker 3: wearing a T-shirt, Don't Fail the Girls, that goes live
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Speaker 3: September 21st. If you order it, you'll get it just
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Speaker 3: in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And all the proceeds,
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Speaker 3: of course, go back to the organization, the work that
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Speaker 3: they're doing. But Brandis wanted to make sure that especially
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Speaker 3: black women knew that one in eight women are affected
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Speaker 3: by breast cancer.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 3: And it's getting, you know, as we get closer to
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Speaker 3: our 50s, it gets even worse. Forty percent of black
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Speaker 3: women who are affected by breast cancer don't survive it.
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Speaker 3: We are disproportionately affected by breast cancer. So there was
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Speaker 3: a push. There was a charge. And I was so
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Speaker 3: happy to be a part of that movement. Y'all know
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Speaker 3: my story. My mom is a cancer survivor and I breast,
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Speaker 3: lung and brain. But it is really a journey. The
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Speaker 3: cancer fight is a journey and it's a blessing to
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Speaker 3: be able to make it through it and come up
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Speaker 3: on the other side of it. And we want to
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Speaker 3: see more people doing that. So, yeah, I was I
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Speaker 3: was literally a walking ambassador for the Susan G. Coleman Foundation.
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Speaker 3: and got to, you know, premiere the T-shirt there for them.
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Speaker 3: But Brandice had an opening speech of the night where
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Speaker 3: she talked a bit about the work that she's doing
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Speaker 3: and mentioned, you know, some of the work that we
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Speaker 3: were blessed to be able to do with Susan G.
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Speaker 1: Coleman that night. Let's take a listen.
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Speaker 7: Have been pushed out of corporate America this year. And
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Speaker 7: it made me think.
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Speaker 13: I asked the question, what if 100,000 of them turned
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Speaker 13: around and partnered with.
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Speaker 8: A small black-owned business, helping them to bring in $ 1 billion.
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Speaker 7: Do the math.
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Speaker 4: That's $ 100 billion back in.
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Speaker 2: Our own hands.
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Speaker 7: And the response.
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Speaker 13: From that post is something that I've never seen before.
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Speaker 4: Text messages, phone calls, DMs, paragraphs in the comment section.
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Speaker 7: And it was all some version on the same day.
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Speaker 12: We have each other.
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Speaker 7: We have the talent, we have.
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Speaker 4: The resources, we have the capital, we have us.
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Speaker 2: And that is the spirit that I want.
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Speaker 7: To reflect back to all of you tonight. That has
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Speaker 7: always been Harlem's fashion world.
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Speaker 9: So, good evening.
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Speaker 4: I want.
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Speaker 13: To welcome you all to our 19th annual Fashion Show
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Speaker 13: and Style Awards here in Glasgow. Nobody is here by accident.
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Speaker 8: You've opened the door, you've made an introduction, You sent
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Speaker 8: an email, you bought something, you invested.
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Speaker 14: Something, you believed in somebody.
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Speaker 7: But the one thing that we all have in common
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Speaker 7: is this. We all believe that designers of color matter.
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Speaker 11: Not someday, today.
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Speaker 15: If this is your first time in the room, I
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Speaker 15: want you to know that this is not a closed-door,
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Speaker 15: build-or-grow version of this industry.
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Speaker 7: You are welcome at this table.
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Speaker 4: But if you didn't know, this is THE table.
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Speaker 7: This is not just another fashion evening.
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Speaker 11: This right here is family.
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Speaker 7: So, just look around your table, and I actually want
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Speaker 7: you guys to do this.
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Speaker 13: Just say, hey, frozen.
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Speaker 4: 19 years ago, I believed that designs of color.
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Speaker 14: Deserved to be seen, heard, funded, and scaled.
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Speaker 8: And 19 years later, I still believe it.
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Speaker 7: Maybe even more.
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Speaker 4: But there is something that I know now, that I
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Speaker 4: didn't know when.
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Speaker 2: I started this.
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Speaker 8: And it's that you don't have to build everything overnight.
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Speaker 7: Any chaos or a break.
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Speaker 4: You can build in peace.
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Speaker 7: Peace by peace. That is our aim tonight. Peace by peace.
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Speaker 15: That is how we fashion our own.
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Speaker 7: One piece at a time.
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Speaker 8: And I don't pretend that every year was easy, because 2025.
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Speaker 7: It tested us, didn't it? But guess what?
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Speaker 8: We're still here, and I can finally see what all
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Speaker 8: those individual pieces have built.
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Speaker 4: In this room, in our brand partners, in our designers,
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Speaker 4: in all of you.
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Speaker 7: Tonight, we are honoring an extraordinary group of people who
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Speaker 7: have shaped both fashion and culture.
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Speaker 11: Erykah Badu, who will be the fashion icon of the.
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Speaker 4: World, celebrating her unmistakable.
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Speaker 13: Personal style and lasting influence in.
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Speaker 7: Art, in music, in culture, and definitely in fashion.
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Speaker 11: Winston Kaye, with a C, for Virgil Abloh Award, presented
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Speaker 11: by LV & H.
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Speaker 7: And you come on Brendan Blackwood, and that's the winner.
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Speaker 4: Of the year.
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Speaker 11: Orly Fultz, with an E, for.
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Speaker 7: Lowe's Magic Award.
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Speaker 11: Jahliel Weaver, with her Silence.
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Speaker 7: Of the Year Award. and Reggio Alamondi, with our ever-proud
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Speaker 7: New Year.
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Speaker 12: Tonight, we will be presenting a collection of three extraordinary performers.
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Speaker 7: Ray Datte, Chuz Collins.
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Speaker 11: And Indie Girl Spoon Heroes from La Nina Dainty.
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Speaker 8: And all of these selections have been financially supported thanks
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Speaker 8: to donations.
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Speaker 2: To our non-profit, Icon 360.
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Speaker 14: From H & M, Macy's Inc, the PPH Foundation, PBH Foundation, Nordstrom,
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Speaker 14: and Nike.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 11: And I'm so excited.
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Speaker 12: Because one of these designers is going to find out
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Speaker 12: they have won $ 100, 000 from the PBH Foundation.
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Speaker 7: It's a great gift.
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Speaker 11: So you guys know how I do it.
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Speaker 8: So feel free to shout out to friends. But I
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Speaker 8: want to thank all of our incredible.
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Speaker 11: Partners who have made tonight possible. American Girl, B.O.P, Dior,
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Speaker 11: Black Mood, Gap, Black House.
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Speaker 7: H & M, Cypress Wines, Floor Hill, LV & H.
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Speaker 11: Macy's, Marcy Pan, Nike, Norris Rose, Haddon.
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Speaker 9: Beauty, P.H.
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Speaker 2: John.
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Speaker 11: Tiffany Pico.
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Speaker 7: Susan G.
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Speaker 11: Colvin. And speaking of Susan G.
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Speaker 4: Colvin, Stella John, our 2023 designer of the year, designed
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Speaker 4: a hidden.
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Speaker 12: Theme that Farmer Rosa is wearing tonight as a part.
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Speaker 13: Of our partnership with Colvin. And we're proud to help
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Speaker 13: bring awareness to their incredible.
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Speaker 2: Work with the rest of.
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Speaker 8: The time.
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Speaker 7: And now, as we head toward our 20th year, we're
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Speaker 7: building some new pieces.
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Speaker 4: HFR House, which is.
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Speaker 7: Our elevated shopping experience, has.
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Speaker 4: Expanded into new cities.
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Speaker 7: Atlanta, we were just there.
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Speaker 4: New Orleans.
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Speaker 7: And Martha's Vineyard. And people are not.
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Speaker 8: Just going to think, oh, they came to shop. Designers
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Speaker 8: have collectively made about.
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Speaker 7: $ 200, 000 through HFRs.
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Speaker 13: And HFR's whole base, the infrastructure that we're building.
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Speaker 7: To help designers of color move from urban designers.
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Speaker 4: To scalable businesses, had to.
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Speaker 7: Be made in, and that is HFR Studio. And it
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Speaker 7: is 90% funded.
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Speaker 4: And maybe my favorite new fee you might actually have
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Speaker 4: in your name In 2010, I actually wrote down a
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Speaker 4: list of things I wanted to do in 2010.
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Speaker 13: And one of those was that I wanted to have
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Speaker 13: our very own.
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Speaker 7: Thing. And tonight, 16 years later, that drink is real.
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Speaker 13: The iconic Tracy Ellis Ross.
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Speaker 4: Tracy was our 2015 fashion icon.
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Speaker 7: Tracy, where are you?
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Speaker 4: Tracy, we love you.
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Speaker 7: We're so grateful for you. And you guys are a
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Speaker 7: pure person. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 9: And later this evening, if you.
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Speaker 4: Guys don't get a session through, if you've got a.
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Speaker 7: Bad day, well, well, well, you're about to get done.
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Speaker 7: I don't have a bad day.
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Speaker 4: It's so much funnier.
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Speaker 9: Because tonight, we're going to see an 11-year-old designer who
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Speaker 9: wrote something along the lines of, it's hard to remember
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Speaker 9: the American girl who made our collaboration to celebrate their
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Speaker 9: brilliant anniversary.
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Speaker 7: Yay! Yay!
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Speaker 6: As I think about what's possible in this room, I
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Speaker 6: keep coming back to this. These four designers belong to
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Speaker 6: all of us now. Everything we need to build the
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Speaker 6: next $ 100 million brand is here.
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Speaker 7: The writer, the stylist, the investor, the champion, the retailer,
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Speaker 7: they're here.
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Speaker 8: The impossible becomes possible in this room.
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Speaker 7: So here's my question for you today. Which piece are
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Speaker 7: we going to make? Because there is nothing that we
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Speaker 7: can't do if we decide right now to do it together.
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Speaker 7: Welcome to Harlem's Fashion Rose.
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Speaker 2: Piece by piece.
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Speaker 1: All right, y'all. I'm headed out.
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Speaker 3: We're back on the ground. I was going to say
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Speaker 3: feet on the ground, but we not feet on the ground, okay?
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Speaker 3: We pumps, pumping it down on the ground because it's
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Speaker 3: New York Fashion Week. I'll keep bringing you guys the
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Speaker 3: latest right here on the latest with Lorna Rose of
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Speaker 3: the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Every show I attend, and we got some good ones
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Speaker 1: coming up, y'all.
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Speaker 11: We going to be.
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Speaker 3: hang it kaisa not is debuting at new york fashion
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Speaker 3: week we'll be there i'm taking you guys into what
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Speaker 3: is happening lately not just talking about it i'll tell
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Speaker 3: y'all every single episode y'all could be anywhere with any
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Speaker 3: old body talking about all of the things but you
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Speaker 3: guys choose to be right here with me my low
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Speaker 3: riders i appreciate y'all i'll see y'all in these streets