NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In honor of New York Fashion Week, more than 6,500 fans joined Time Inc.’s ESSENCE for its 2nd annual Street Style Block Party & Awards, which took place in Brooklyn on Sunday, September 13. The event’s official hashtag (#EssenceStyle) trended on social media throughout the day, with thousands of posts celebrating real women with great style.
The ESSENCE Street Style Block Party was a day-long extravaganza – fusing music, fashion, art, shopping and food and featuring special appearances by actress Gabrielle Union, a Street Style fashion show co-hosted by singer/TV personality Mel B. and an incredible performance by R&B singer Andra Day. In addition, the event featured local vendors and designers via the Street Style Shops; Essence Eats, a curated local food truck experience; and an interactive Kids Zone.
The day culminated with a private Street Style Awards dinner honoring the year’s standout fashion influencers: Ciara (“Curator of Cool”); actress Gabrielle Union (“Closet Crush”); fashion designer Charles Elliott Harbison (“Designer to Watch”); celebrity stylist Jason Rembert (“Style Disrupter”); and fashion blogger Karen Blanchard (“Chevrolet Street Style Maven”).
“Our Street Style Block Party clearly resonates with women as a manifestation of our desire to own our unique style and beauty and to see this uniqueness celebrated,” said ESSENCE Editor-in-Chief Vanessa K. De Luca. “And, recognizing the inspiring talent of this year’s Street Style Award honorees – Ciara, Gabrielle Union, Charles Harbison and Jason Rembert – powerfully celebrates diversity and self-expression during New York Fashion Week.”
For more information, visit Essence.com/streetstyle. Join the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @essencemag and at Essence Online on Facebook, and follow #EssenceStyle to see Street Style Block Party looks and photos.
Partners for the ESSENCE Street Style Block Party included Chevrolet, SheaMoisture and The Home Depot.
Time Inc. brands currently produce over 575 events each year in the consumer and business-to-business space. ESSENCE’s most recent live event, the 21st annual ESSENCE Festival in New Orleans, was attended by more than 500,000 people over the Fourth of July weekend.
ABOUT ESSENCE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Essence Communications Inc. (ECI) is the number one media company dedicated to African-American women, with a multi-platform presence in publishing, live events and online. The company’s flagship publication, ESSENCE magazine, is the preeminent lifestyle magazine for African-American women, generating brand extensions, such as the ESSENCE Festival, ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood and Black Women in Music, Window on Our Women and Smart Beauty consumer insights series, the ESSENCE Book Club, Essence.com and ventures in digital media (mobile, television and VOD). For 45 years, ESSENCE, which has a brand reach of 14.2 million, has been the leading source of cutting-edge information and specific solutions relating to every area of African-American women’s lives. Additional information about ECI and ESSENCE is available at www.essence.com.
ABOUT TIME INC.
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is one of the world's leading media companies, with a monthly global print audience of over 120 million and worldwide digital properties that attract more than 140 million visitors each month, including over 60 websites. Our influential brands include People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Time, Real Simple, Southern Living, Entertainment Weekly, Travel + Leisure, Cooking Light, Fortune and Food & Wine, as well as more than 50 diverse titles in the United Kingdom, such as Decanter, Horse & Hound and Wallpaper*. Time Inc. is home to celebrated franchises and events, including the Fortune 500, Time 100, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, the Essence Festival and the biennial Fortune Global Forum. Hundreds of thousands of people attend our events every year. We have been extending the power of our brands through various investments and acquisitions, including the formation of Sports Illustrated Play, a new company devoted to youth and amateur sports, and the acquisition of inVNT, a company that specializes in live media. We also provide content marketing, targeted local print and digital advertising programs, branded book publishing and marketing and support services, including subscription sales services for magazines and other products, retail distribution and marketing services and customer service and fulfillment services, for ourselves and third-party clients, including other magazine publishers.
