Meet Channing

Channing Hargrove is a New York-based editor and writer.

Channing is the Culture Editor at Grazia USA.

She has a decade of experience writing at the intersection of culture and style. Most recently, Channing was the Fashion News Editor at Refinery29, where she was one of the original creators of Unbothered, the brand’s fastest growing sub-brand for and by millennial Black women while reporting on industry happenings, hunting down exclusives, as well as hidden stories and breaking headlines. The Council of Fashion Designers of America named her someone who is ‘Making Their Mark: Black Forces In Fashion.’ She’s also written for ELLE, PAPER, teenVOGUE, New York Magazine’s The Cut, and Racked. Channing has a curiosity surrounding the way we adorn ourselves and seeks to tell those stories in her work.

This website, Channing in the City, began as a personal blog, her guide to the New York City, where she occasionally typed monthly love letters, went inside stylish residents’ closets, and made videos. But mostly, she shared tidbits of her daily life living in a tiny studio in a big city. Like, that one time there was a mouse in her apartment — eep!

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Photo: Noemie-Marguerite

Channing has written for:

With nearly a decade of experience, Channing has written for leading publications like Racked, Teen Vogue, Coveteur, Huffington Post Black Voices, Essence.com, and xoJane. And not that you asked or anything, but below were a few of her favorite pieces to write.

Why Pyer Moss Is So Special To Black Editors

Rihanna Was The Nail In Victoria’s Secrets’ Coffin

Why Does Fashion Love Virgil Abloh But Shun Kanye West

Black Designers Have To Work Twice As Hard — & Are Still ‘Emerging’

Why Are So Many White Women Suddenly Wearing So Much Gold Jewelry?

An Evolution Of The Female Rapper ‘Get Money’ Look

Why Are Black Women Missing From Mainstream Wedding Sites?

Kanye West, Rapper, Activist, Dreamer, Is Dead To Me… To Us

Before Virgil Abloh, There Was Ozwald Boateng

Colin Kaepernick Only Wanted To Wear Black Designers For His GQ Photoshoot

I Waited In That Ridiculous Hermés Line For Eight Hours