Fifteen Percent and Hudson’s Day Celebrate the Launch of Shop_Black In an Intimate Panel Discussion
Hudson’s Bay, a Canadian marketplace and digital platform providing an array of products from beauty, home, fashion, and food products, is launching Shop_Black on their TheBay.com digital marketplace. Black-owned and led businesses will have the opportunity to broaden their landscape by offering customers the convenience of shopping from Black-owned brands year-round.
Join the panel discussion today, February 7th, 2023
LOCATION: Hudson’s Bay Queen Street Flagship
176 Yonge Street, Second Floor – Women’s Footwear
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y4
TIME: 5:00 PM ET to 8:00 PM ET
Panelist Include
- Aurora James: Creative Director and Founder of Brother Vellies, a lifestyle and accessories brand, and Founder of Fifteen Percent, a nonprofit organization founded in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd advocating for fifteen percent. Black people make up 15% of the US population, and ask businesses to dedicate 15% of shelf space to Black-owned brands.
- Vanessa Craft: Global Head of Lifestyle & Education, TikTok – Vanessa Craft, the former Editor-in-Chief at ELLE Canada and named on Variety’s 2021 Global Impact list, is currently leading a team that sets the global strategies for highly influential content fashion, beauty, food, books and NGOs on TikTok.
- Tyler Ferguson: Owner & Lead Designer at Monoxide – Born in Toronto and raised in Canada and The Bahamas Tyler Ferguson founded Monozide in 2012, beautiful handcrafted jewelry remixed and remastered from her love of vintage pieces seen in Londons Fashion Week, Elle Canada, and Forbes.
- George Sully: Designer, Founder of Black Designers of Canada – Designer, Entrepreneur, and Creator of the Black Designers of Canada (BDC). He is also a Bata Shoe museum inductee, co-founder of House of Hayla, and creator of the break-out brand Sully & Son Company.
- Emefa Kuadey: Civil Engineer turned Fashion Engineer, Founder of ISRAELLA KOBLA – A women’s clothing and accessories brand. In 2022, Emefa was the recipient of the first-ever “The Bay Fashion Fund.”
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