As the sun set in New York City Wednesday, a melting pot of people poured into the Shopify store in the SoHo neighborhood decked in Black-owned designer garb — Telfar duffel bags and Hanifa dresses among them — to Afropunk x Shopify’s Black Fashion Accelerator Fashion Show.
The fashion show is a culmination of the first year of the Black Fashion Accelerator program, a partnership between Afropunk and Shopify designed to offer…