The mother-daughter duo center Black femininity in luxury, from an Ancient Egyptian goddess to the southern belle.

“The creative process is the birth process,” says Ayesha Faines of The Grapevine and Women Love Power. “It’s the inception, it’s the brainstorm, it’s literally that chaotic process that it takes to bring something into fruition.”

Both Baldwin’s and Jenkins’ work shine a light on the simplicities and joys and fears of being a person who is black and who is alive in America.

“My goal was always to capture the beauty of black women, to restore black pride and the spirit of black women.”

Beyoncé’s and Rihanna’s Vogue covers reminded me of the 18th-century black women who rebelled against the assault on their beauty in colonial Louisiana.