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Questlove is one cool mofo on stage & in real life. It’s something really fun about shooting him live. Maybe it’s the afro?

The instrument is so huge but he manages to parade and dnce around stage as if it is light as a flute.

I know I keep harping on the awesomeness of the Hennessy Artistry event in Detroit this past weekend but it is hard to stop talking about. From a kick ass show, excellent venue & environment to getting fan swag from Questlove. Just a total win! Even with all the good shit that I was exposed […]

Day one of New York Fashion Week had me in awe & visually over stimulated. Beautiful and intensely interesting people were everywhere. One thing I noticed above most was that everyone seemed to have on black, white, gray or a combination of the three. I was thinking, isn’t everyone supposed to be highly fashionable or […]

I met Jay Manuel aKa Mr. J a few weeks ago at NY Fashion week backstage at a show. After introducing myself, I told him that I was considering going platinum and asked for advice. He looked at my hair and was like really. I’m like really but you know I was not. I was […]

About two months ago, I was all worried about being chosen to cover Mercedes Benz Fashion week.  I mean, I was all nervous & checking my email constantly like I was waiting on a SSI check to come in the mail. Now all of that is a not so distant memory. I went, I saw, […]

I’m just saying; Fashion & diversity do not go hand in hand. Let’s not fool ourselves. This is larger than Black models being in low representation. You see very few to other racial groups represented in magazines or on covers. While I was at Fashion Week, I spotted very few models of color in general. […]