6 Black-owned LGBTQ+ brands to elevate your summer style

It’s summer and the girls and boys are ready to go outside! With just a little help from Black-owned LGBTQ+ brands, everyone seems to be sure to step out into the sun in style.

Brandon Blackwood

Brandon Blackwood helps summer girls select the right swimsuit from their summer shopping list with its BB Swim collection. Blackwood swimsuits are available in one-piece and two-piece designs in a wide range of colours including black, red, pink, orange and brown. The New York fashion brand is the place to get yours summer Look.

K. NGLSEY

Head to the beach in considered one of the K.ngsley Gbadegesin K.ngsley swim briefs, a group made in Italy and designed with ribbed ECONYL, a regenerated nylon originating from Italy. The collection features a collection of summer colours: black, green, light blue, orange and more. Choose your favorite or get all of them. These partially lined briefs are made for summer.

The first-generation Nigerian-American designer says his brand goals to “reclaim and redefine the Black, Queer, Femme body and create the tangible, direct support communities need today.”

Coco and Breezy

Protect your eyes from harmful UV radiation with sunglasses Coco and Breezy, a Black and queer-owned eyewear company founded by twin sisters Corianna and Brianna Dotson. Choose from frame shapes akin to aviator, cat eye, rectangle, round and square. Shop the brand new STUDS collection and revel in the long-lasting look.

Telfar

Queens-born designer Telfar Clemens has a bag to match your collection of colourful summer outfits. Telfar continues to take fashion by storm with its collection of vegan leather bags in a wide range of shapes, colours and sizes. The Telfar bag collection includes popular shopping bags, round bags, duffel bags, patent bags and puff shoppers.

Clemens said that his brand is an ode to black culture, New York and queerness. “Growing up, my parents wouldn’t let me wear or buy women’s clothing, so I started sewing my own clothes,” Clemens told the outlet. “I wanted to write a text that was genderless and would appeal to people like me.”

If you have not found the right wardrobe to match considered one of its famous bags yet, the Telfar brand has you covered, too, offering clothes and accessories that challenge the norms of “men’s” and “women’s” wardrobes.

Stuzo clothing

T-shirts and tank tops are basic elements of each summer wardrobe Stuzo clothing helps you rejoice Pride all summer long with its collection of tops. Founded by African-Panamanian designer Stoney Michelli Love, the fashionable, gender-free tops are emblazoned with various words and phrases representing the LGBTQ+ community. Parade in T-shirts with the words “Yes, Still Gay”, “Gender Free”, “FemBoi” and the “Gays of the Week” design.

According to its website, Stuzo is “inspired by love, people and life. Whatever shape or form you choose to exist in, we celebrate it!”

Bow tie behavior

More formal plans call for considered one of Robin Williams’ handmade bow ties. The Black queer-owned brand has a really cool collection of colorfully designed neckwear made from high-quality fabrics. “Bow tie behavior was founded to create bold and tasteful elements around which outfits are built,” we read on the brand’s website.