Fashion & Music || VOGUE: Arlenis Sosa, Jourdan Dunn & John Legend
"John Legend Photographed with Models Arlenis Sosa and Jourdan Dunn
for the March 2011 Issue of Vogue by Norman Jean Roy"
via: VOGUEtumblr
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20110223
Fashion || Nicki Minaj for BlackBook Magazine's 'Pop Issue'
Fashion & Music || Nicki Minaj for BlackBook Magazine's 'Pop Issue'
BlackBook Magazine features Nicki Minaj as their cover girl and in a spread for the 'Pop Issue.'
The cover layout and photography takes on a blaxploitation art direction for their story on the rap-pop sensation.
In the interview, Nicki states “Most people don’t treat me like a human being.
I’ve become an image, a persona, a robot: ‘Stand there, take a picture, and smile.’”
It's not easy being Barbie.
Music opinion aside, the styling for this shoot is simply awesome.
Loving the mayhem on the cover with bold eyes and lips that certainly 'POP.'
Photography: Andrew MacPherson
Styling: Brett Bailey
via: BlackBook
20101218
Fashion || "Break of Dawn" Evolution of Dawn Richard (Interview)
Fashion || "Break of Dawn" Evolution of Dawn Richard (Interview)
Recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dawn Richard, one-third of the Diddy-Dirty Money, trio for the Winter 2010 Issue of FEARLESS Magazine.
Excerpt:
Bold, graceful, and humble. Dawn Richard’s journey in the music industry can be described as fantasy whirlwind playing out before the eyes of her fans and followers. Dawn was signed with Bad Boy Entertainment as one of Sean Combs’ selected group members for Danity Kane after several tumultuous seasons of Making the Band and is now a key member of Dirty Money. After several years of a rumored solo album and her gradual evolution into an industry style leader, Dawn’s time has finally come.
Bold, graceful, and humble. Dawn Richard’s journey in the music industry can be described as fantasy whirlwind playing out before the eyes of her fans and followers. Dawn was signed with Bad Boy Entertainment as one of Sean Combs’ selected group members for Danity Kane after several tumultuous seasons of Making the Band and is now a key member of Dirty Money. After several years of a rumored solo album and her gradual evolution into an industry style leader, Dawn’s time has finally come.
Jen Prudhome: Through the years we’ve seen your hair long and straight, long and curly, to the now ultra fabulous short cut you’re wearing.
Dawn Richard: The cut is very unique and it compliments my style. What you’ve seen me do in the past has all contributed to my look but I do think when you’re a part of a group, you have to respect what the brand is.
Dirty Money brought the short cut and it’s definitely more me than before.
I’m coming into my own and I cannot wait to see myself evolve.
I’m in a relationship with fashion.
JP: What does it mean for you to be in a relationship with fashion?
DR: I’ve always been a fan of fashion. I’m a big fan of androgyny; I love androgynous looks!
I’m fan of menswear and designers like Chloe, Rick Owens, and Alexander Wang.
When people saw me with Dirty Money they were saying “Dawn looks so different” but what they don’t understand is it’s very me. When you get into this business you don’t always get to do things your way at first. It’s what you plan on, but that’s not the reality of this business. The more work I do, the more shoots I plan, the more say I get to have.
That’s why the fashion gets better and better.
People in this industry only see beauty one way and it’s exciting to push everyone to see it in a different light.
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Diddy-Dirty Money album “Last Train to Paris” is in stores.
Released on December 14, 2010 by Bad Boy Entertainment/Interscope.
Jewelry: Lucratif Street & Bullets & Bows
Stylist: Keisa Sullivan; Assistant Stylist: Ugo Mozié
Photographer: David Heisler
Hair: Diana Lomelin; Makeup: Heath Chanel
via: TheFearlessMag
20100818
Music || Kat Graham vAmps-Up in Gasoline Glamour for 944 Magazine
Fashion || Music || Kat Graham vAmps-Up in Gasoline Glamour for 944 Magazine
Actress Kat (Katerina) Graham (CW's Vampire Diaries) vamps it up for 944 Magazine as she prepares
to launch her singing career (Warner Music). She tells the magazine that her sound is
"vintage ’90s with a modern twist. I like to say it’s Janet Jackson infused with M.I.A.”
Hot and furious combination; is that what YOU hear?
Check out KatGraham's "Boom Kat" and her latest single "Sassy" on KatGraham.com
Photography by: Tamar Levine
Makeup/MUA: Amy Chance
Stylist: Miriam Sternoff
COVER| Ring: Gasoline Glamour
LOOK 1| Dress: Radcliff; Shoes: Gasoline Glamour STUDDED BOOTIES 6 inch heel 2 inch platform; Ring: Gasoline Glamour
LOOK 2| Tutu: Camilla and Marc; Bra: H&M; Bow: Pamela Roland; Cuff: Reiss
Gasoline Glamour VANITY MIRROR SHOES 6 inch heel 2 inch platform; Ring: Gasoline Glamour
Seems like Gasoline Glamour is the way to go these days when stylists want to present a blazing editorial.
20100618
Fashion || Rule Breaker: JANELLE MONAE
*INSPIRAT!ON Rule Breakers: Identifying individuals with undeniable, out-of-this-world, unconventional, storybook style.
Fashion || Rule Breaker: JANELLE MONAE
The highly anticipated release of "The ArchAndroid" fell upon us on May 18. 2010.
For those of us that are familiar with the theatrical, futuristic-funk introduction of
Monae's first SUITE (first release in 2007 chronicling her alter ego Cindi Mayweather)
titled "Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase," this latest arrival is right on time.
With musicianship in the music industry throwing listeners in a whirlwind of unidentifiable beats
Many of us are reaching for the melodies and lyrics that remind of the foundations
legends of Motown, Blue Note, and so many other labels gifted the world of music.
Janelle Monae is fully aware of the archetype conceptual but thoughtful music can be in today's time.
Immersed in this world, METROPOLIS, created by her own effort to remind us all about what should have our ears.
With it, Monae created an image easily Identified by well tailored white button-up shirts, black satin blazers,
cummerbund and slacks; consistent styling that is sometimes altered or manipulated by added details:
pleated shoulders, matador embroidery, etc. She has noticeably created a look
that has become HER trademark, one that has already got a hold on Dolce & Gabbana runways
which then trickled down to Rihanna's 2009 Costume Institute Gala look.
Imitation is the highest form of __________.
In this latest addition of Fashion Rule Breaker, as a tribute to her commitment to creating music everyone can believe in,
we sound off as she does in her beautifully written "Cold War," --We want to be Free.
We here at INSPIRAT!ON ask that you elevate your ears and have a listen.
To hear Janelle's Monae's "The Arch Android in full for the first time visit:
Janelle Monae Paper Mag photo shoot by Jiro Schneider / Dan Monick | Styling by Mack Dugan and Megan Rizer
White blazer and shirt by D&G, tie by Prada and gloves by DavidElfin.
Janelle Monae Honey Mag photo shoot by Carrie Schechter | Styling by Darryl G. and Carmegie for Iyli Ili
Zang Toi suit, Steve Madden shoes, Kenneth Jay Lane earrings and ring
Janelle Monáe | VOGUE Italia / Vogue.it (June 2010)
InStyle features Janelle in an 8 page Spread! | Wondaland Arts Society (July 2010)
Fashion || Rule Breaker: EBONY BONES
*INSPIRAT!ON Rule Breakers: Identifying individuals with undeniable, out-of-this-world, unconventional, storybook style.
Fashion || Rule Breaker: EBONY BONES
If she didn't shock you into today with her live performance at this year's Art Basel,
you should automatically recognize her as a force to be reckoned with by fashion.
Ebony Thomas, Afro-Punk rocker known as Ebony Bones completed her 2009 LP
titled "Bones of my Bones" fully equiped with an amazing shoot of Bones
styled head-to-toe by Nobuko Tannawa in Timothy James Andrews
She started building her name recognition in 2007 via MySpace and has since powered
runways (Diesel) and music festivals (SXSW) and even fashion campaigns (Yves Saint Laurent) with her electric performances.
As Mentioned in my previous entry, the inspiration for her look undoubtedly channels Addaperle ("The WIZ" 1975)
--I received personal confirmation of this from her sample of the WIZARDS cadence trumpets
from the film for the JC de Castelbajac runway performance.
‘‘Sometimes the best way to get a message across
is through comedy and color,’’ says Ebony Bones whose riotous punk stage act is all the proof one needs.
‘‘You don’t have to be glossy or shiny to be creative.’’ -The New York Times
Ebony Bones interview with VOGUE Paris
via: EbonyBones
20100617
Fashion || Rule Breaker: BETH DITTO
*INSPIRAT!ON Rule Breakers: Identifying individuals with undeniable, out-of-this-world, unconventional, storybook style.
Fashion || Rule Breaker: BETH DITTO
Lead singer of the GOSSIP brings a new meaning to breaking the rules of Fashion.
She is a part of an underrepresented demographic in the market
Plus Size/Real Size women. It is a market, that in the past, lacked versatility and options.
Beth Ditto at EVANS Collection (Owned by Top Shop) is currently available in sizes 14-32 and starts at £18
Excerpts from "STYLE STUDIO: Beth Ditto"
"I love to break all the rules I was taught as a kid, I was always a fat kid, like really chubby.
And I was always taught not to wear horizontal stripes, and not to wear floral patterns,
And I was always taught not to wear horizontal stripes, and not to wear floral patterns,
and not to wear anything too crazy and colorful.
I think when I was about 18 I started to undo all of these rules I had learn and started to dress crazy all of the time."
Ditto on Punk Rock and the Fashion Industry:
"I think fashion is an incredibly powerful tool...punk would have been nothing without fashion.
Punk was nothing if not fashion. People were like, "oh fashion is so shallow." Well the people in fashion think really shallow.
Punk was nothing if not fashion. People were like, "oh fashion is so shallow." Well the people in fashion think really shallow.
I dont ever feel like the designers are really shallow...all my experiences with them have been incredible artists
who have a broad spectrum who are working in a very narrow industry"
who have a broad spectrum who are working in a very narrow industry"
via: Style
Fashion || MissUnderstood: Solange Knowles in HONEY Mag
Fashion || MissUnderstood: Solange Knowles in HONEY Mag
Photography by Angela Boatwright
Love this spread of Solange Knowles in HONEY Magazine.
The creative direction reminds me of work published in the
short-lived fashion & lifestyle publication called SUEDE Magazine
In an article titled "Solo in the City," written by Shanel Odum,
Solange answers questions touching on everything from her son,
to Twitter, to her not-so-new haircut. When asked to describe herself in
Five Words she says "Water, blood, melanin, bones, and ... vajajay."
My kind of girl, but I can't help to think how much she is misunderstood
as an artist and individual. She's obviously IN-TOUCH with different
non-commercial aspects of music. But what I would like to know:
For those of us who loved Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams,
What made it so right? And for those of us that couldn't care less
What went wrong?
via: HoneyMag
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