dtmh @eveningstandardmagazine A post shared by Solange (@saintrecords) on Oct 19, 2017 at 9:25am PDTLike many black women, Solange Knowles sees her hair as an important part of her identity. In a track on her 2016 album, Knowles describes her hair as her “soul,” her “crown.”“Don’t touch my hair,” Knowles sings in the song by the same name. Leading up to the shoot, an artist styled Knowles’s hair into an elaborately braided crown that towered above her head. But when the magazine released the final version of its cover photo, something was missing: the braided crown. In the interview with the magazine, Knowles said braiding is an “act of beauty, an act of convenience and an act of tradition.” It is “its own art form,” she added.

Source: Washington Post October 23, 2017 08:17 UTC