All Entries in the "Fashion" Category
Michael Jordans weds Yvette Prieto: Details
Michael Jordan wed his longtime girlfriend Yvette Prieto in a beautiful ceremony on Sat., April 27, 2013, at Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Fla., before heading to a private golf club for the reception where they danced throughout the evening. Here are the deets: They partied underneath a 40,000 square foot [...]
Kerry Washington is stunning at ‘Peeples’ movie premiere
Kerry Washington attended the LA premiere of Peeples in a Black and White gown from Narciso Rodriguez‘s Fall 2013 collection. She topped the look off with black and white Christian Louboutin heels and toted a Vince Camuto clutch. She had a hint of a red low light streak in her hair and wore it in [...]
The Met’s 2013 Costume Institute Exhibit, ‘PUNK’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, examines the impact of the punk movement on on high fashion. A perennial form of fashion, punk was birthed in the early 1970s, it continues to influence fashion today. The exhibition features nearly 100 designs for men and women, including original punk [...]
Bruno Mars covers ‘GQ’ magazine’s April 2013 issue
Pop rock singer and songwriter Bruno Mars, 27, snags the April 2013 cover of GQ mag looking quite fresh. During the interview, he talks about a constant companion, his Rottweiler Geronimo: “That was my dream, man. I was, ‘Man, I want a dog. I need a dog. A big one.’ And now he has a [...]
Spring 2013 Hervé Léger by Max Azria collection
The popular bandage dresses by beloved designer Max Azria are ready to wear, literally. That’s right, the body-con dresses hit the runway last fall during the September shows in New York and now it’s time to rock this oh-so-sexy Hervé Léger collection – an experimentation with geometric patterns and passementerie appliqué details. A first are [...]
Fashionable First Ladies
First ladies are fashion influencers in their own right. Good or bad, they’ve topped many best-dressed lists and some of their choices are so daring they spark debate. Here are three of the most powerful first ladies making global headlines for their fashion sense. Qatar’s Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned is a habitué on Vanity [...]
Stephen Burrows’ Fashion Retrospective Opening at Museum of the City of New York
A pioneer and iconic fashion designer Stephen Burrows, who has been dubbed one of the first African American designers to achieve international acclaim and by the New York Times as the “brightest star of American fashion” (circa 1977), will take part in the first major examination of his work titled Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced at [...]
Betsey Johnson Fall 2013 Collection: ‘BJ Kicks A’
Betsey is back! Betsey Johnson returned to Lincoln Center to show her Fall/Winter 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week. Betsey Johnson is one to always keep you on your toes, and this season was no different. The show, themed “BJ Kicks A,” launched her active wear collection for the Fall/Winter 2013 season. Models chatting on cell phones strutted down the catwalk [...]
Custo Barcelona Fall 2013 Collection: ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Designer Custo Dalmau stepped out of his comfort zone with his Fall 2013 RTW Collection. And he openly shares, “It’s not for everybody.” The Custo Barcelona runway show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, held at the Stage at Lincoln Center, was titled “Beauty and the Beast.” The designer blends various elements including earth-tone tribal and Aztec [...]
Why do black celebrities love their sunglasses so?
For many years, black celebrities have had an ongoing love affair with their dark shades. Oftentimes, we see them in photographs wearing a variety of dark glasses, and wonder what are they glasses hiding? After a little research and more than a few interviews, it’s becoming quite apparent that the average African American celebrity utilizes [...]
