40 Black-Owned Fashion and Shoe Brands to Support

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Footwear News may receive an affiliate commission. Since the racial justice movement of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, there has been considerable momentum within fashion and footwear to not only find ways to support Black Lives Matter and other racial and social justice causes, but to also look within the industry at the ways in which it has not provided an equitable and fair landscape for minorities. 2020 and 2021 saw a blossoming of support and visibility for Black fashion designers and creatives, with the launches of the Black in Fashion Council, the 15 Percent Pledge, the Black Fashion & Beauty Collective, the Kelly Initiative, plus additional pushes from organizations such as the CFDA’s IMPACT program. Established brands also began to ramp up their own diversity, inclusion and equity programs, with the appointments of chief diversity officers and other DEI executives at Gucci, Chanel, Nike, Kering and Prada (many of which were appointed in early 2020, after a series of racially insensitive missteps from some brands in 2019). With the January 2021 inauguration of Kamala Harris as the first African American, Asian American

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