The Blackout Awards Posted by Ms. Fashionista , Monday, March 29, 2010 at 11:58 PM, in

Two Sundays ago, I attended the 1st Annual Blackout Awards, honoring celebrity fashion stylists, make-up artists, and hair stylists. It was created by hair stylist extraordinaire, Yancey Edwards, who decided there needed to be an outlet to celebrate the celebrities behind the celebrities; the people who make our darling celebs look fabulous and out right fierce...

There was a total of 20 hot shot honorees. Some included: Hairstylist Hadiya Barbel( Iman,Ciara, Ashanti, Eva Pigford), Fashion Stylist Atiba Newsome(P. Diddy, Mary. J Blidge), Makeup and Creative Arts Emmy Award winner, Karen Dupiche (Michelle Obama, Steve Harvey, Victoria Beckham), just to name a few. However, it was Misa Hylton and Nole Marin who were the highlight of the Blackout Awards. Misa Hylton who is a well known Fashion Stylist in the hip hop community(and P. Diddy's high school sweet heart and mother to their son Justin) received the 1st ever Naomi Sims Award of Excellence while Nole Marin received the Vanguard Award.

If you're an America's Next Top Model watcher(or at least of the early seasons) then Nole Marin's name should sound very familiar because he was a consistent and favorite judge on the hit show. Now, I'll be honest, although I was excited to meet him, I initially thought he was going to be one of those stuck up fashionistas but I was so surprised how warm and welcoming he was. Out of all the honorees I was able to meet, Nole was the most humble and grounded. He was so nice!!!! He took pictures with everyone who asked and conversed as well. If you asked for advice(which I did), he gave you some. He was such a breathe of fresh air. It just made me love him even more......

Check out some pictures

Hadiya Barbel(I tried to get her shoes. She has on Christian Siriano)

Misa Hylton

Misa giving her speech

Nole Marin

Although I still feel some sort of way about men wearing skirts, Stylist Yusef Williams swagged it out.

Please excuse my oily face....ugh

Me..before the oily face lol

Victoria Secret Sale Posted by Ms. Fashionista , Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM, in Categories: Budgetista

Hey Yall,

Spring is here and in the air so if you like me you're probably doing some spring cleaning. Now I hate spring cleaning my room but I love spring cleaning my closet because it's out with the sweaters, turtle necks, coats and how you doing skirts, shorts, ripped jeans bathing suits, and pastel colors! Closet spring cleaning allows you to see what you have, what you need, and what you want, which means........shoooping. Well you're in luck because Vicki Secrets is having a serious online sale and I do mean serious. They have sexy bathing suits as low as $19, tops 2 for 20, dresses as low as $29, and sandals $19-$39. If you shop today, you get an additional 25% off any single clearance item.

So what are you waiting for? Check out Victoria Secret.

I'm baaaaack Posted by Ms. Fashionista , at 2:30 PM, in

Hey Fashionistas,

First off let me apologize for not posting since Feb. 28th. Things have gotten quite interesting for me since then. To update, I was laid off  my old job but  no worries because I started a new part-time gig as an Event Coordinator for this awesome non-profit organization, Amoeji Consulting. Amoeji is a small event planning company in charge of the Miss Black New Jersey/Miss Black NY Pageant as well as the Nigerian Healthcare Foundation (NHF), Amoeji's non-profit sector. I am the Event Coordinator for NHF and for the past month,
I've been busy transitioning and coordinating the Faces of Hope Banquet, NHF's largest fundraiser dedicated to raising money to enhance Nigeria's healthcare system. You see my boss is Nigerian and her family established the Nigerian Healthcare Foundation as a way to give back to their homeland and enhance Nigeria's healthcare and social welfare reform. Like any country, Nigeria has remote and impoverished areas. Those residing in such locations have limited access to basic necessities, i.e healthcare/hygiene and education.
To help combat this, NHF runs the 'Nigeria Smiles Campaign' to collect hygiene, school, and medical supplies to distribute to patients during NHF's mission trip. Every year NHF assembles a team of healthcare  professionals for a two-week 'mission trip' in West Africa to treat and feed over 400 people, DAILY. This year's mission trip will be July 6-20th. See why Amoeji is awesome? Even though I'm not Nigerian, I'm touched by my boss and her family efforts. They know there's a problem in Nigeria and trying to make change and I respect that. If you want to learn more about NHF visit www.nhfinc.org.

So that's basically why you guys haven't seen a post from me(but I'm back on the ball so I'll be posting regularly)I'm learning a lot about event planning and loving it. I'm meeting and connecting with great people so hopefully this will help me reach my goal of becoming a Publicist.

More posts to come........

Vogue Italia launches Vogue Black, Curvy, and Talents Posted by Ms. Fashionista , Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, in Categories: Fashion News

Recently, Vogue Italia got a makeover by launching Vogue Black, Vogue Curvy, and Vogue Talents on their website. The three new channels give spotlight  to talented Black fashionistas, curvy fashionistas, and fresh design talent.

While I am smitten at Vogue Italia's new found versatility, why oh why must women of color, curvy women, and emerging design talent be viewed as separate entities? It really saddens me that even in today's society where beauty and diversity are at a colorful and unique boiling point there still exists segregation in fashion. One would think that certain magazines and designers would've finally started thinking about the bigger picture. Ya know, the fact that the world doesn't just embody stick thin Caucasian women. Or the fact that women of all sizes and shades want the latest and hottest fashions, designed by the new, the veteran, and the indie.

Now I'm not knocking Vogue Italia's steps of open-minded progression(at least they're continuing to make some relevant progress since their 2008 "all black issue." Can't really say that about American Vogue)but it would've been great if the editors decided to make it more inclusive. 

What do you guys think? Was this a smart and thoughtful move or just a niche?

Check out Vogue Black, Vogue Curvy, Vogue Talents

My haircut...... Posted by Ms. Fashionista , Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 1:37 AM, in

 

So what ya think?

NY Fashion Week Recap Continued Posted by Ms. Fashionista , Friday, February 19, 2010 at 1:49 AM, in Categories: NYFW F/W 2010

Here are some more collections...

Naeem Khan
He's a little known Indian designer and he made a dress for our fashionable first lady.



This is one of my favorite collections. The pieces were striking and daring. Naeem Khan is definitely someone to look out for.

Michael Kors


I love this man! He def knows how to make women and men look and feel sophisticated, chic, and sexy. Brava Michael!


Nanette Lepore


Youthful and flirty..

Vera Wang




Not too many new trends for fall and winter 2010. Fur and feathers are going to big next fall and winter(PETA won't be happy) as well as a colour palette of pink and raspbery, hues of gold, and neutral/earth tones. Velvet will be on come up while sequins and embellished pieces will remain in.

There were so many good shows to choose from. To see all the collections click here.

NY Fashion Week Recap Posted by Ms. Fashionista , Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 3:34 AM, in Categories: NYFW F/W 2010

Thank goodness for YouTube!!!

Since NY Fashion Week is coming to a close I decided to post recap videos of the most striking collections.

(In random order)

First up Christian Siriano.



Such a fierce collection. I especially loved the black jacket paired with the black pencil skirt. It's simple yet chic and bold.

Fashion For Relief Show


Ms. Naomi Campbell may be known for a lot of things but girlfriend can work a runway. Two snaps and a circle honey!!!

Nicole Miller


Love it, love it, love it!

Michael Angel


To be continued...