I love when my mom comes to visit. I get to play tour guide. I keep a running list of cool things happening in the city, tidbits of historical context I know she’ll get a kick of out, and some sort of cultural activity—always. Wearing: Doncaster Sweater//...
One of the first writers that I was ever drawn to, fashion-wise, was Zandile Blay. She was the market editor at Paper magazine, Style & Culture columnist for the Huffington Post and then became the fashion editor at Essence.com before leaving for Nigeria to become Editor-in-Chief at Hello! Nigeria. She's back stateside now, working as a fashion/beauty journalism professor at Syracuse University and Editor-at-Large of Scene magazine.
I say all that to say, I was taken with her. The way that her words came alive on my screen. She starred in a Coach campaign. The way her clothing was so magnetic. Her jumbo quilted Chanel. She was brown and fashion writer. Most importantly, she was accessible. 23-year-old me was a goner.
Barcelona was the perfect city for my friends and I to end our European yolo'venture in. While we were go, go, go in London and Paris, cramming all that we could into each day, in Barcelona, we actually had time to stop and enjoy our tapas...
I went to the Met to see the new Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibit on Sunday. I was really excited, I dressed in my version of punk and headed to meet some new and old friends to indulge in the ultimate New York fare. An afternoon...
Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, used to write health and beauty articles. Can you imagine? She was well versed in cosmetics as well as ruling with a jeweled fist. Oh, and did you know that Cleopatra used to line her eyes in black to protect...
Last Sunday my family and I ventured to the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts to see the Titanic exhibit. There was a movie that showed the challenges of the first people to explore the wreckage in the 80’s. To accompany the movie there was...