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So Jones and Walker wanted to create a brand that spoke to unity and the empowering and uplifting ideas of Blackness they saw all around them

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She shared photos of her special birthday look on Instagram, too, in which she posed in a nearly sheer, off-the-shoulder gown

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As much as the 90s were about individuality and the subversion of traditional fashion norms, the decades eclectic tastes were driven by a desire to adopt something newer, edgier, and more resonant with the zeitgeist