Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Ghost Influencer

Today, less than 4% of the 500 members of the invite-only Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), fashion’s most influential trade organization, are black. Fewer than 10% of designers at New York Fashion Week in recent years have been black. And there have been vanishingly few black designers at major fashion labels: It was big news when Vi... See more

Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green , Into the Gloss co-founder Nick Axelrod (now at UTA Ventures), or Emily’s former assistant, Morgan Von Steen

You were never going to see her making any kind of public misstep or posting something reckless on social media, which is part of why she’s a bit of a cipher. It was hard to know who she really was or what she really thought. She worked really hard—that was always her personal brand from the moment she appeared on The Hills and that’s what, univers... See more