Harlem's Leading Lady

Vanity Fair, September 2009 by Michael Roberts

Mother, Son, & Man's Best Friend

Rising Revolt

Inspired by the woman’s empowerment movement during the 1940’s when war forced housewives to hang up their aprons and enter the male dominated workforce, PLUTOCRACY’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection “Rising Revolt” represents the modern corporate rebel... The woman who knows she can look sexy and professional at the same time. The woman who refuses to blend in with the suits she is surrounded by. The woman who won’t take “no” for an answer and wears the clothes that show she means it. The corporate rebel uses her sense of style to show her state of mind and is stirring up the masses in a Rising Revolt...

Church Lady

Remember that lady from church that sat in the front.You could smell her Chanel No. 5 three pews back. Sister So-an-So, Deacon's wife. She was fly, always sharp, ,seriously sweet... yeah I wanted to be that lady when I grew up.

image via Kwesi Abbensetts

The Black Marilyn Monroe 50+ Years Later

THEN

NOW

Strikingly similar features and expressions. Note how each is serving up the same stealthy dosage of sensuality. To think Joyce painted her hair with radiator paint, how FRESH is that????

Read more about Joyce Bryant, "the Bronze Blond Bombshell" here....

Tom Ford's Lady

J. Crew's Top 10 Gifts Under $100

Buy 2 of Each. 1 for them, 1 for you....

re:Fresh Fruit

The Sex and the City Paradox
" 'You are simultaneously totally objectified and more empowered than you used to be.' Objectified because we're prostrating our bodies on some pedestal of misogynistic, almost pedophiliac-like desire, creating a false kind of perfect woman whose beauty and polish can be attained only after hours and weeks of personal grooming and high-end hygiene. Empowered because it's all marketed to us as some sort of self-improvement." 

-Alex Kuczynski for Harper's Bazaar

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When Its Cold Outside We'll Go To The Winter Carnival

AND BEAUTY WAS HER NAME....



Mixed Classic Prints

Chanel for Ghubar

Biker Chic

Harper’s Bazaar|February 2010|by Alexi Lubomirski



Denim Diva

Domestic Diva