One major theme that has defined this prom season amidst the march of celebrity red carpet replica dresses has been African-inspired designs. From the Black Lives Matter movement to bullied New Jersey ...

Couture with culture! Makalaya Zanders, a high school senior in Cleveland, Ohio, chose a prom dress that was stylish and made a statement at the same time. The 18-year-old was tossing around the idea ...

Kyemah McEntyre, that 18-year-old prom-dress slayer we told you about a few weeks ago, put her designing skills to use once again. And this time, her work was featured on a more prominent stage.

When Makalaya Zanders wanted to wear an African printed dress to her high school prom, a teacher made the hurtful comment that it "wasn't really something you wear to prom." Instead of listening to ...

Garfield Heights High School’s Makalaya Zanders was clear that she was going to slay this year’s prom her way, despite what others had to say. See Zanders had her heart set on a dress that spoke to ...

Thanks to Kyemah McEntyre, the teenager who designed her own prom dress last year, high school students across the country are wearing African-themed gowns. Yet despite the popularity of Ankara print ...

When her white teacher told her that an Ankara-print gown would be "tacky for prom", 18-year old Makalaya Zanders of Cleveland, Ohio, didn't get mad — she just showed up to prom looking bad as hell in ...

"I felt like a princess," says US teenager Brianna LeDoux about her prom gown which she specially commissioned from Nigeria. "I wanted my dress to stop people in their tracks." The 18-year-old from ...

GULFPORT — In an unassuming building on Dedeaux Road, Nadine Hancock transforms material into the stuff of which dreams are made. Lace, satin, velvet, jersey, chiffon — bolts of fabric used to spin ...

Nearly every morning, Suzette Opara wakes before the sun rises and begins her meticulous work of hand-sewing and removing beads and sequins, carefully cutting silk, lace and jersey-knit fabrics into ...