Robyn Mowatt is a senior editor, consultant, and writer. Her work covers the intricacies of Black culture, designers of color, music, and entertainment. Mowatt has written for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Vogue, NPR, The Cut, Nylon, Byrdie, Essence, and various other web publications. She is the former associate editor at Hypebae where she developed the site's culture content and focused on emerging designers, music, and Black Hollywood. Mowatt was also previously a staff writer and contributing editor at Okayplayer where she carved out a lane for herself by writing sharp editorial packages, profiles, and features. At the music-centric platform, she breathed life into their coverage of R&B, fashion, entertainment, and women in hip-hop.
At Essence, she expanded the fashion verticals’ global reach, centered coverage of African platforms including Industrie Africa, The Folklore, and countless African designers. Additionally, during Mowatt’s time there, she and the talented contributors she worked with filed essential features, profiles, and essays, while focusing on costume designers, the convergence of sports and style, and regularly highlighting emerging brands.
If you’re curious about her fashion background, she’s also held roles at Elle and The Cut. She’s also been featured in the CFDA, Who What Wear, InStyle, AfroTech and has appeared on two episodes of the hip-hop podcast Breaking Atoms dissecting Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt.