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Nordstrom Partners With Zerina Aker’s Black Owned Everything

Nordstrom launches partnership with Black Owned Everything, a marketplace promoting the work of Black-owned businesses in fashion and beauty, and its founder and celebrity stylist Zerina Akers.

Published: Oct 21, 2021 2:55 PM

By Jeanel Alvarado

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Nordstrom Partners With Zerina Aker’s Black Owned Everything

Nordstrom launches partnership with Black Owned Everything, a marketplace promoting the work of Black-owned businesses in fashion and beauty, and its founder and celebrity stylist Zerina Akers. We collaborated with Akers to curate and style a collection of four Black-owned brands with the season’s freshest Nike and Jordan drops as part of the Nordstrom x Nike space.

Nordstrom x Nike is a brand partnership focused on personal style, reinvention, inspiration and women-led storytelling.

With curated pop-up shop experiences, events, collaborations, and new merchandise, we hope to introduce customers to innovative and highly coveted offerings from Nike through the lens of fashion by pairing fresh takes on iconic styles with emerging brands.

Customers are invited to explore and shop clothing, accessories, jewelry and handbags as they come in throughout the season from a diverse community of creators, including. WILLIAM OKPO – For women who celebrate their cultivated sense of style.

The Okpo sisters are daughters of Nigerian immigrants who are inspired by blending immigrant’s style with American culture. BRANDON BLACKWOOD – Normalizing Black luxury with a focus on creating bags that are trend-forward, lasting and statement-making. SAMMY B – Samantha Black’s mission is to create limelight-worthy pieces…

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