Instead of starting late like awards shows usually do, the Harlem Fashion Row Show and Style Awards got off to a brisk start Tuesday night at Grant’s Tomb, and it didn’t matter if Wintour was there or not!

Harlem Fashion Row founder Brandice Daniel encouraged the hundreds of attendees to support Black designers by dedicating at least 10 percent of their clothing and home decor purchases to their designs “to create change in the industry.” She also noted that Black consumers’ purchasing power for clothing and footwear is expected to reach $70 billion by 2030, making it easier to see LVMH’s risk-taking with Pharelle Williams.

Anna Wintour According to sources, the Campbell Awards ceremony was moved up earlier Tuesday after Wintour and Campbell’s vehicles reportedly passed each other as Wintour was leaving and Campbell was arriving.

Describing Campbell as one of the bravest people she knows, Wintour said she began speaking the truth about inequality and injustice early in her career, at a time when it wasn’t so common to cast Afrio Americans. “Naomi’s courage has benefited the entire fashion industry.

A muse to designers such as Marc Jacobs, Virgil Abloh and Azzedine Alaía, Campbell has also become “a fashion godmother to generations of young models and designers,” Wintour said, noting that Campbell is now a devoted mother of two, no small feat, and a champion of global causes, particularly funding research to combat the AIDS crisis and advocating for its victims.

Naomi was later hailed as Editor of the Year by Tracee Ellis Ross, who she first befriended in 1994 while intern at Mirabella magazine, four years after she started working at Harper’s Bazaar, a first for a black woman.