Standard Talks: The Business of Beauty
Standard Talks: The Business of Beauty
NO BAR
Wed. August 23, 5 - 8 p.m.
The Standard, Black in Fashion Council, and Studio Symone invite you to an evening of conversation exploring the rise of the beauty industry and the trends, movements, and innovations shaping the future of one of the world’s leading industries. Conversations will be curated and moderated by Darian Harvin, Writer and Founder of Studio Symone.
5PM | Doors Open
5:30PM | Beauty - Diarrha N'Diaye, Ami Cole Founder
6:00PM | Media & PR - Lindsay Peoples, Co-Founder of Black in Fashion Council and Editor-in-Chief of The Cut & Sandrine Charles, Co-Founder of Black in Fashion Council and Founder of Sandrine Charles Consulting
6:30PM | Art- Delina Medhin, Makeup Artist
7:00PM | Art - Flo Ngala, Photographer
Make a night out of it - stay over afterwards
More on Standard Talks: Let’s talk about it. Standard Talks is our reoccurring cultural forum where we invite the world’s leading thinkers, doers and creators to talk it out at The Standard. They bring their biggest ideas and best takes to intimate panel discussions. Talks cover topics ranging from art and fashion to science, politics, and entrepreneurship. Over cocktails (or coffee), guests sit back and absorb, ask questions, and make new connections. The Standard Talks program launched in 2012 and has featured the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Lady Fag, Abi Morgan, Keira Knightley, and more.
More on Black in Fashion Council: Five years ago, Lindsay Peoples wrote “What It’s Like To Be Black In Fashion,” a critically-acclaimed and widely shared article for New York Magazine. As a result of her extensive reporting, Peoples realized that the solution was systemic change. Joining forces with public relations specialist, Sandrine Charles, the duo decided to start The Black in Fashion Council.
By organizing a resilient group of editors, models, stylists, media executives, assistants, freelance creatives, and industry stakeholders, we aim to build a new foundation for inclusivity. For this change to occur, non-Black brands, publications, and people of influence have to carefully examine the roles they’ve played in either helping or hurting Black people who work in these spaces. As an industry, we cannot continue to claim that we are progressive if we are not working to force diversity and inclusion in corporate structures while rectifying systemically racist policies that have permeated our industry for hundreds of years.
More on Studio Symone: Studio Symoné is a beauty media platform and community created by writer Darian Symoné Harvin covering beauty at the intersection of politics and pop culture. The platform creates URL storytelling while fostering IRL community among a global audience of women and femmes. Studio Symoné’s motto is Beauty. Culture. Wildness.; it is a mindset that allows the movement to display an expansive group of women and femmes who share common values based on creativity, critical thinking, social awareness, and the art of having fun.
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