00:00we are starting a very important journey supporting black creative and black fashion
00:08at the very first essence fashion house i'm antoine phillips i'm the new vice president
00:15of gucci north america for gucci brand cultural engagement i want to introduce our lovely and
00:24beautiful co-host moana lu the chief content and creative creative officer at essence magazine
00:34hi guys thank you so much it's amazing to see so many people in the room you know you've seen
00:41essence fest before for some of you this is my first essence fest and it's very special because
00:47since i start essence like seven months ago my mission been to support black creatives and black
00:54fashion
00:58and it was important to have a place a home for these black creatives to show their talent we do it
01:05every day in the magazine every day in our videos but we want to give them the opportunity and this
01:12is why we are here like this even the consumer can see the talent that we have but as well the
01:18professional like gucci to see the beautiful and the creative mind that we have and it's
01:23important for us to collaborate with like a luxury brand and this is just the beginning of this
01:29journey so tonight is going to be a very special day but actually the four coming days gonna be very
01:37special days so i look forward to see you at the fashion shows at the panel we have so much to share
01:44with you follow our stories and without you it's not going to be possible so thank you so much antoine to
01:50be leaving us as well to make a special announcement since we are talking fashion and we have the amazing
01:58essence team that is here we are launching in september for starting the journey of our 50 years anniversary
02:06of essence the first black fashion bible the september issue of essence we are upgrading the quality of
02:14the paper 200 pages of black beauty and black fashion will be this september in order yourself
02:25and so thank you mariel bobo our fashion director working out on this issue julie wilson our beauty
02:30director corey murray what you've seen in the past six months is just nothing everything is coming
02:37this september so we look forward to see you and buy it in the new stand
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