The week in Black style began on a somber note with the passing of the multi-talented fashion journalist Michael Roberts on Monday, April 3.
Roberts wore many professional hats in his lifetime, including as a fashion journalist, illustrator, stylist, filmmaker, author, and photographer. According to Women’s Wear Daily, Roberts held many coveted roles in the industry, including as Vanity Fair’s first fashion and style director, The New Yorker’s fashion director, the London Sunday Times’ style director in his native England, Tatler’s art director, British Vogue’s design director, Vanity Fair’s Paris editor, and a Condé Nast Traveler contributing editor.
WWD described Roberts’s commentary as elegant, exacting, and biting at times, noting that he reached his ascent with a “well-honed work ethic.”
Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, said Roberts was a “guiding light.”
While a cause of death has not been given, Roberts may have been ill leading up to his death in Sicily, Italy, where he had a home.
In this week’s Style Guide, we have also rounded up the best dressed at the GLAAD Media Awards, the NAACP is expanding its hair and makeup apprenticeship program, Black talent brings in spring on April magazine covers, and more.
Last week, the West Coast leg of the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards took place at the Beverly Hills Hilton, where 15 of this year’s 33 winners were announced. Actor Jeremy Pope received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, presented by Gabrielle Union, and Jerrod…
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