Shelcy Joseph

Freelance Fashion Writer | Clips in WSJ, ESSENCE and POPSUGAR | Substack: Market Appointment

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

Introducing the Unbraiding Appointment💈A visual series unveiling the concealed practice of unbraiding. It aims to expand the discourse on Black women’s hair and tackle the stigma of braids.

Created by @Christy_kats 🌹 Full story: https://t.co/nol5YoPv4P

[mr ⋆ cakes @CAKESDAKILLA]

Good taste should be developed outside of mainstream marketing.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did past societies build so much "useless" beauty everywhere — and why did we stop?

It might be a measure of a culture's health... (thread) 🧵

[thatadult @rianphin]

fashion doesn’t need to go back to anything— it needs to progress.

[cindygallop.eth @cindygallop]

OK folks, hold onto your hats - here we go, with my annual live-tweeting of my reading of @condenast @voguemagazine #SeptemberIssue. What do we think we'll find this year? I'm guessing, what we find every year: #carefullycalibrateddiversity, lack of age/body diversity, appalling waste of celebrities, every ad looking pretty much the same as every other ad. Let's see, shall we? 🙂

[Nika Solé @withlovesole]

I really never feel the experience of, ‘how did I get this lucky’. Because there’s no luck at all. It’s devotion. It’s perseverance. It’s alignment. It’s accountability. It’s patience. It’s hundreds of conversations with God.

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

@bbrosembert She’s unstoppable!

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

I wrote about Haiti’s Olympic uniforms for @Essence 🇭🇹 https://t.co/L16GChgnfY

[Queer Latifah ✨ @TheAfrocentricI]

The transplant vs NYC native beef is all a microcosm of gentrification & capitalism. Folks are being displaced, rent & food costs are high, the culture & folks are adapting, it’s not the NYC it used to be & that’s fair. It’s not our people’s fault but we can still be active in it. Folks just need community that makes space for many lived Black realities in NYC. Socially, economically, and culturally.

[lisa durag @xmiltonmania]

@shannon_sense Viral moments don’t really show what was there. I met friend’s mother, kids and partners at that same block party that people are saying didn’t have any community. There were native NYers and transplants. The outrage is weird and doesn’t make sense.

[Saint Shannon @shannon_sense]

The thing i like about the Brooklyn Block party is transplants or not, curated to look a certain way or not, in Brooklyn over the years there's been a concerted effort to take the Black out of Brooklyn. So with so many beautiful Black ppl congregating peacefully it's a statement

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

One thing Jacquemus does very well is world building. The product comes second to the marketing I fear, but I ultimately think not aligning the two will hurt in the long run

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

My sis and roomie really threw the event of the summer 🤭🤟🏿

[QueenOfEnjoyment @ohwawa_]

Brooklyn Stoop Party ✨

[QueenOfEnjoyment @ohwawa_]

Brooklyn Stoop Party ✨

[Jus @jusalexanduh]

Having solid taste requires depth. A depth of understanding, exposure and experience. A depth of intellectual curiosity.

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

@chaedria Literally just wrote about this. It’s intentional and very insidious.

[Shelcy Joseph @SeaShell__]

@LindseyCreated @shesthatbritt The gag is they might’ve even done it for free. The whole thing is just embarrazzzing.

[Kevin @kevinleblanc11]

fashion writing increasingly feeling like a plutocratic vacuum, too much on personal style and "getting dressed" and not enough inquiring into the Great Flattening of fashion shows and fashion culture

[Frantz Duval @Frantzduval]

Ce concert 15-10-22 Accor Arena des retouvailles de Carimi à Paris se présentait comme le grand moment de l'année et même de l'histoire de la musique haïtienne.
Avec le décès sur scène de Mikaben, c'est Michael Benjamin- qui rentre dans l'histoire.
Mika a tout donné à la musique.

[Manny Solo @manny_solo]

Today the Haitian Community lost a LEGEND 🙏🏾🕊️💔 RIP MIKABEN