00:00I'm so excited to be here this evening to welcome you to the Essence Best in Black Fashion Awards Dinner.
00:09The fashion industry is here. We're so happy that you guys came out to celebrate us and to celebrate yourselves.
00:16Reading Essence, discovering it for the first time and seeing black people look so beautiful and so chic and so elegant.
00:23When I tell you looking at Essence and seeing the stories about black creators that worked in the industry encouraged me because when I look in Vogue, I didn't see that.
00:37Welcome to Essence Fashion House.
00:42I am just a huge fan of African luxury because I feel like Africa is luxury and I think black is luxury.
00:51What we really need to understand and be educated about is the culture we have owned for a long time and the obligation everybody in this room has to move it forward.
01:00We as people of color, we can't buy into all the marketing that's telling us we have to buy and throw away.
01:07I want to see you on Instagram and TikTok showing me how you can wear that great dress five different ways.
01:14The hardest part about mental health is saying no.
01:18Yesterday was the first day of school. I was not at work. I was with my children.
01:22I took that day off. That's how I said no.
01:27Essence Fashion House!
01:29Have a good luck!
01:29Have a good luck!
01:30finns
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