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Every Black colleague and designer I've spoken with has felt the same way: heavy. Their Instagram account has over 100k followers and fans fawn over their basketball court filled with rare sneakers. That's what we've been doing the entire time with Harlem's Fashion Row: Building bridges between industries and businesses and designers, and we've had many tough conversations about race for years. Waterloo, Ont.-based chiropodist, Matthew Doyle-who runs Golden Goose Yeah Black The Barking Dogs YouTube channel from his practice-agrees.
