By Marielle Bobo, Executive Director, Style & Special Projects
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.
This Friday, Reebok is dropping a black iteration of its DMX Fusion Experiment Pyer Moss sneaker— a follow up to the all-white version that dropped in March. The collab is part of an ongoing sportswear and accessories partnership with Haitian designer Kerby Jean-Raymond that kicked off with his acclaimed FW 2018 NYFW debut.
The unisex shoe pays homage to the DMX Run 10, an iconic running sneaker from the sportswear brand’s archives. Like it’s all-white counterpart, the black iteration has a sock-like ankle runner inspired by airdrop containers and multiple straps used to tie them down.
“There’s only a handful of [people of color] navigating this non-inclusive footwear space.”
On Twitter, Jean-Raymond pushed back on recent accusations that his Reebok shoe is a copy of Kanye West’s Yeezy 500 model. “There’s only a handful of [people of color] navigating this non-inclusive footwear space,” he said. “I wouldn’t let minor similarities in product force ill speech out of me about those people. There’s space for all of us. But my shoe was designed first. :)”
Available on Reebok.com beginning June 15, the shoes will retail for $180. Will you cop, or nah? Take a closer look below.
