Three generations of Missoni. Milan Feb.2010
Margarita Missoni’s Polka dots and Jamaican Tuxedo Birthday party
Giovanna Battaglia, Margarita Missoni, Sara Battaglia
Pop’Africana is an independent magazine based in New York City led by a team of creatives, who pride themselves on delivering
a rejuvenated image of Africa.
Oroma (the editor) is also a blog contributor to Thepop.com.
The two magazines are separate entities and have nothing to do with each other.
We just like each other.
Click here
By the way Tocara, I was called broomstick as a girl in the islands.
Skinny and black don’t really like each other.
It didn’t bother me too much, I like myself that’s all that matters.
But a woman with meat on her bones is the ideal where i come from.
Just take a look at any big Caribbean woman and see how they swing their hips.
Just a lovely sight to see.
So I’m really feeling Mark Fast.
New York Time's Stefano Tonchi, Pop's Editor in chief Dasha Zhukova, and Tavi at the Prada Book party in Beverly Hills
“Can you explain to me why you put Tavi on the cover? I mean what’s all the fuss about?”
A friend asked me this last fall when the issue came out. Where do I start? ok:
Because when I introduced Tavi to Richard Prince at the Pop Launch party, not only did she know who he was,
she’d already modeled a homework assignment on one of his nurse paintings,
“This is like one of the moments where I feel I’ll never wash my hands again” she said.
She was equally blown over by Gwen Stefani.
A little girl that passionate about art, that I’ve had the chance to work with – I know exactly what i’ll give her for Christmas.
And I don’t normally do Christmas gifts.
I asked her father for her mailing address. We were sitting at Rodarte’s spring show.
He bent over to her to tell her the good news.
He turned around to me with a smile, ” she says to tell you she loves Richter”
Ok so she can one up me like that. Lovely I love Richter too.a
She seems to be aware of quite a lot of what’s going on in popular culture. Not just who Paris Hilton is but
Tangerines
Rain
Castor oil.
Church bells at Christmas
Filly new dresses
The slaughter of lamb
Banjos.
Cigarettes before stained teeth
Drip drip of rain, patiently digging through rocks.
Guavas, pink and green
Guava whips, will cut your skin
Guava seeds like pebbles.
Dasheen leaves, yams, tomatoes
The little pepper tree by the kitchen.
Hills of strength,
Hills give strength to legs
To the will
To the soul.
Hills give strength to rivers.
And what is a hill but a rock with some dust, where a seed once fell and grew, to a tree, and the tree fell leaves, and the leaves made soil and the soil beseeched the rain? The rain went back to the sun and then God laughed, in fact he roared with joy and his eyes twinkled, and with the twinkling of his eyes he broke the tree in half.
More mud.
But the parrot came and cried a feather and the ant picked it up and brought it inside the trunk of the tree. The rock breathed and all these things settled.
Roots never die. They told the story for a millennia
And then another. The rock grew to a hill and the hill to a fort.
My mother was born on a fort. My mother was born on a fortress. I was borne by my mother.
My navel was never planted beneath a tree there, but my heart is sprinkled all over the hills of Saltibus, at the nape of all its mountains and at the feet of all its basins, at the trunk of every tree, at the heart of all its stories.
Cockfights, white-rum, Joe-Gum,
Bare feet, red ants, mild sun.
My grand-mother was a rock, my mother is a tree and one day God laughed and twinkled his eyes and the parrot cried a feather. But roots never die, and it’s amazing what roots can bring up.
One day a rock sighed a feather.
The wind will blow things far and wise.
Feathers love to rest.
But wind will always blow.
God has a way of traveling things. A beak could be my bus, a storm could be my train, and though it’s rare, humans can grow wings like planes.
There is no set rhythm to life.
There is no one song to sum it up.
There is no set rhythm to Saltibus.
Though I return there like a hook,
There is not one song to tell you
Why I love it so.
Enjoy, share, but do not attempt to claim!
Photo and Styling: Olympia Scarry
Olympia Scarry at the Soufriere volcano, St.Lucia W.I, Cape Issey Miyake, Photo Neville Wakefield
At club Killer Plastic last night
Her smile is just infectious.
So because of that I was always curious as to who she was.
I found a video of her on Vogue black, and I’ve looked at it
several times because just listening to her and watching her
makes me happy.
You can watch her too here
Sessilee Lopez sits on Richard Prince's "Iron Horse"
Joan Smalls at Prada last night.
Nefertiti on Prada walls a few years ago.
Joan Smalls was born in Puerto-Rico
Joan Smalls can be booked at IMG here.
Who said feathers are only for the night? This woman here wears it early a.m at Michael Kors FW10.
” A very dangerous mouth” as Pat McGrath put it, referring to Prada’s spring 2010 vixen.
glass shoes Prada SS2010
Read the story here at the NY Times.
New anti-tobacco ad from Droits des non fumeurs
It’s causing a lot of controversy.
I’m wondering how effective this could be in preventing teens from smoking.
What do you think?
Chanel Iman Michael Kors SS2010
Franca Sozzani is the Editor of Vogue Italia.
Vogue Italia has only this week launched a website.
Who knew?
I always thought it existed before.
Ms. Sozzani seems dedicated to featuring black models in her magazine.
Naomi Campbell in her POP interview last fall, commended Ms.Sozzani on her [bravery.]
I say bravery since it seems like the industry fears using more than a certain number of black models at any given time.
In July 2008 she did four different Vogue Covers with four black models: Naomi Campbell, Jourdun Dunn, Sessilee Lopez and Liya Kebede.
On the Vogue.it website is a whole section called Vogue Black that features black models, writers, actors, singers ect.
Some of the talent featured so far are: Jamaican model Sedene Blake, Tolula Adeyemi,Grace Jones and the Brooklyn based writer Colson Whitehead who by the way just got nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize.
Anyway take a peek at Vogue Black
You will also like Vogue Curvy.
Crystal chandelier dress: Prada
To read about some of the women who have gone through the roof check out the current issue of POP.
Condolezza Rice
Louise Bourgoeois
Joan Burnstein
and
Dr.Sarah Churchwell
to name a few.
I few posts down, I quoted Marc Jacobs. That quote was taken from the N.Y Post which was quoted from style.com.
The little problem is that it wasn’t Marc Jacobs who said the deal about celebrities at his show it was Marc Jacobs President
Robert Duffy. How could the NY Post not get that right?
It’s not the first time I’ve caught them in a false report either, or the second time for that matter…
A dress by Marc by Marc
Are we coming out of the trenches
or are we going in?
I’m suddenly reminded that
we are a country at war.
How do we explain this
war chic?
And I have a feeling there will be more of it to come.
BELOW IMAGES OF MICHAEL KORS, MARC BY MARC and DENNIS BASSO
Go to school
pull your socks up
close your laptops
buckle up
roll your sleeves down
hike your pants up
tie your waists
AND PRAY!
tie your waists at Michael Kors
buckle up @ Michael Kors
TRANSLATION: Culture Club: Persian Style
London’s newly opened hot spot destination for “members only” where east meets west
“The idea is of an old train in motion, inspired by 60’s Britain with subtle influences from the Silk Road” explains Farhad Farman-Farmaian, Managing Director of the Beauchamp Club in London. The new private members club on Beauchamp Place in Knightsbridge lies behind an unmarked door with no number nor name on the outside. Enter into a whole new world of interiors and influences from all over: a sophisticated European Orientalist vision accompanied by a unique soundtrack with Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield, Nino Rota and Billie Holiday. Warhol and Frank prints hang on the walls amidst old family photos paying tribute to Farman-Farmaian’s noble Persian heritage. Founding Members include Agnelli’s, Getty’s and Santo Domingo’s. When not dining on Mediterranean and Persian cuisine and experimenting with prosecco and pomegranate Bellinis, members can enjoy the lectures, readings, classic film screenings, and musical performances curated under the watchful eye of its esteemed Cultural Advisory Council including world renowned architect Zaha Hadid and Swiss art gallerist Bruno Bischofberger.
Mr. Farmaian, how does a non member enjoy these delights?
It’s all so lovely, I was fortunate to taste a bowl of pasta before the club opened (one of the best), and sampled some of the music too…
There should be a way to have interesting and interested non members visit…
