::HAITI ON MY MIND::

:: WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW? ::

Are you in a warm bed laptop in hand

?

Are you at work reading pretending to be busy? ...

Or are you in your living room blog surfing?

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Wherever you may be, you are in the position to provide help to someone in need. NO amount of help is too small. OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS in Haiti need your help. Please take a second to reflect on the countless blessings you posses, and realize that there are many less fortunate than us.

My heart ACHES for Haiti.

As many as 100,00 may be dead. Hundreds of thousands are displaced, with no home, no shelter, no medical supplies, no food, no water, no hope. Children are orphaned, and the scope of this catastrophe is unimaginable...this country is in dire need.

As a citizen of the world, I implore you to do your part. If you can afford the latest "it" anything, you can afford to help those in need. Every dollar helps.

You never know when it will be your turn to be in need...

RED CROSS

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OXFAM

::

YELE

THANK YOU. THANK YOU . THANK YOU.

pics via msnbc

Quote of The Week

“People think that fashion is all frivolity and done by people who can’t do proper jobs,” says the writer Adrian Gill, “but Issie (fashion muse Isabella Blow) understood that it is very, very serious business in terms of civilization and culture. It’s the one piece of culture that every single person in the world participates in. Not everybody reads poetry or listens to music, but every single person in the world gets up in the morning and puts on something, and whether you like it or not, that’s a statement about who you are.”

Ditto. Read the accompanying article, in the August issue of New York magazine.

Runways and Cigarettes

KATE MOSS has been rumoured to smoke 60+ cigarettes a day, and now all that nastiness is catching up to her. 60 cigarettes a day?!! That's yuck mouth to the umpteenth power. I don't care how beautiful she is, Kate must smell like a stale ashtray.

Who else do you know that can inhale a cancer stick through their toes?! This takes practice people... lots and lots of practice. Kate Moss is slowly killing her career, and ultimately, herself. How sad is this?

The chain smoking has finally caught up with her, and besides feeling "old and haggard" Kate is not aging too well, so she's enlisted the help of the woman who "discovered her" at JFK airport, Storm Managements, Sarah Doukas.

"Doukas has told Moss to cut down on the cigarettes by half — from 40 to 20 a day. Kate's trying to get a minimum of seven hours sleep a night, which is proving difficult at the moment but she is determined to get into a routine. And she has dramatically changed her diet. She is now on a strict Mediterranean regime of tomatoes, olive oil, greens and fish."

I really hope she quits this disgusting habit, because it's really not a good look. Good luck with that... Hopefully this will be a lesson learned to all young working models today. Smoking isn't cool, and it will AGE you, the curse of an industry based on looks... and this my friends, is the slow death of a supermodel.

Wrinkles caused by smoking= no Agent Provocateur, and no Burberry, who has coincidentally dropped her for 21 year old Agyness Deyn and 20 year old Lily Donaldson.

Sad. But true. Check out more pictures of the Katester smoking here.

Note to self

Must get this tshirt.

Available in two colors for only $35.00 at Kidrobot.

fyi. I didn't vote for Bush.

Chanel Iman, do you read my blog?

It's Not WHAT you know...

And the Halston takeover begins...

Who says movie moguls can't be fashionistas?

Do not fret my fashion fiends... Harvey Weinstein will SAVE Halston. Just how you ask?

* The Weinstein Co. will make a documentary about fashion icon Roy Halston. We all saw how wonderful of a job Weinstein Co. did with Factory Girl. I can't wait!

* Halston products will be featured in full effect on Bravo's Project Runway. Product placement, Weinstein Co.style.

* All of Zoe's clones will all be decked out in Halston, so everyone else will want to wear it. Brilliant.




Rachel Zoe, Georgina Chapman and Harvey Weinstein. Just what Halston needed.

Confessions of a Model Citizen

I've been tagged by Sarah over at A Fabulous Fashion Blog. My life isn't as exciting as Britney's, but here are
five little somethings about me.

1.My first language isn't English, it's actually Spanish. I find myself "thinking" in Spanish a little too frequently, and when I write, somehow it never seems to translate.

2. Almost three years ago while visiting friends out in L.A., A couple of us ended up at Danny De Vito's house. I remember the kitchen having blue and yellow tiles, with a big Popeye gumball machine...so fun! Danny's daughter Lucy, was having a bday
party, and we were ended up a little too tipsy, and jumping on trampolines (trust me, it seems like a good idea at the time). Danny and thefam lived right next door to Brad and Jen, but I didn't get to see them. Needless to say Danny and his wife Rhea were great sports for letting a bunch of crazies (such as myself) onto their property.

3.I've only told about three of my friends about this blog, so it's
essentially, my little secret. I don't know why, I just keep it that way.

4. I'm dying to blog about my experience at a fashion agency I used to work for, but due to a confidentiality agreement, I can't. And boy do I have stories...

5. I am allergic to my favorite fruit...Cherries. Typical. PS. thats me in the top picture.


JK you gullable thing you.


So,
now that you know a little about me, tell me about you. I'm tagging:
the shady lady over at Flashy Shades.
Morgan at Poor And Stylish, Emma at If You Can't Think Of Anything Nice To Say... Come Over Here And Sit By Me. The Harrods and Barney girls over at I Am Fashion.


Get to it.

Take a guess...

QUICK!

Off the top of your head name three black models (NOT NAOMI, ALEK WEK, OR IMAN)in the current fashion scene signed to the top women agecies right here in New York. Bet you can't... Well me neither can I!

Out of curiousity, I went on their perspective websites, and guess what?, there aren't very many. This is quite sad, because beyond it being wrong on a social standpoint, aesthetically (even if on a superficial level) they have A LOT to bring to the table. This business is all about the aesthetics, so this doesn't make sense. Why does it continue to be ignored?

Here's lowly line up. (Sorry for the long post, but i've got a point to prove here, or atleast encourage some sort of discussion on this issue)

IMG's (1) single "sista" ALEK WEK


DNA: (1) OLUCHI


SUPREME: (0) aka none.

WOMEN: (0) nope. none here.

MARILYN: a whopping (3).

KIMANEE WILSON


EMANUELA DE PAULA


ANA BELA


FORD: didn't have a public book for their women's division, but hey, they've got
CHANEL IMAN which I adore. (I think I might have mentioned this once or twice...)


NEXT: (3)
AGBANI DAREGO


JASMIN BURGESS


SELENA AYALA


ELITE: (1)

DAMARIS LEWIS


TRUMP: Leading the pack at (4).

KIARA KABAKURU


KELLY GERVAIS


CASSIE LEWIS


CYNTHIA BAILEY


MAJOR:(1)


NY MODEL MANAGEMENT: (2 OUT OF 56)

NICOLE FISCELLA


NADINE WILLIS


Excuse the long post, but something's not right here. All of these agencies have hundreds of models on their women's boards, but the fact that I can list all the black ones on one post is insane!

Whats going on with the agencies in NY? Yes, I'll go "there". The Women's boards of many of the top agency and management companies are lacking diversity, and getting quite boring. Bookers- shake it up a bit! lets not be so predictable. How many blondes can you have on your boards?

Of course this is nothing new, but seriously... we can-and SHOULD do better than this.

People, people, people...we're being bamboozled.

You ARE NOT as fat as you think...

But trust me...

Wear Sunscreen.