A publishing industry veteran with over 17 years of fashion and beauty media experience, Marielle Bobo is the Executive Director of Style & Special Projects for Interactive One. Widely known as a masterful creative director, Bobo joins iOne from EBONY Magazine, where, as Fashion & Beauty Director, she oversaw fashion and beauty coverage, including creative direction and styling for celebrity cover shoots and trend features.
Bobo began her impressive career as an agent at Wilhelmina Models. She soon transitioned to Allure magazine as a market editor covering accessories and fashion. Later, Bobo joined the style department at Hearst Magazine’s CosmoGirl and would go on to lend her expertise to Essence, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), Vanity Fair, Glamour and Harper’s Bazaar.
Marielle has appeared on various television outlets including ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s The Today Show and CBS’ Entertainment Tonight. In 2015, she was invited to the White House among an esteemed group of fashion luminaries to participate in Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Fashion Education Workshop. Later that year, she was named one of Hello Beautiful’s 30 Most Powerful Black Women in Fashion.
Virgil Abloh just landed one of the most coveted gigs in fashion, making history as Louis Vuitton’s new men’s artistic director. The young creative is LV’s first African-American fashion designer and just one of three Black designers to ever lead a major French fashion house— a feat he shares with Olivier Rousteing at Balmain and Ozwald Boating, who led Givenchy from 2003-2007.
The Chicago native first entered the scene as Kanye West’s former art director, overseeing creative vision for his 2011 Watch the Throne album and planting the early seeds for his Yeezy label. The 37 year old would eventually change the game with his social message-driven brand, Off-White, an award-winning line that blends streetwear with high fashion and has landed exclusive collabs with Nike and Warby Parker among others. “I think of it as kind of the ultimate collaboration,”Abloh told The New York Times of his new role.
The visionary designer will relocate to Paris and debut his first collection during men’s fashion week in June.
