Dear Pennies, As you all have probably noticed, I have missed the last two days of posts, my apologies for this. I’ve been busy preparing upcoming posts for 2011 and working round the clock on my new business, The Network. Since Christmas is next week, I have decided to take another break…this one will be [...]
Dear Pennies, For this week’s Model Mondays, I decided to feature supermodel Chanel Iman. While brainstorming which model to feature for this week, the name Chanel Iman kept popping up in my head. However, for the last few weeks, I’ve been featuring up & coming models and that brought more traffic to the blog & [...]
Dear Pennies, Yesterday, I had the extreme pleasure of attending the press preview for Simplydresses.com and Promgirl.com. Both of these websites fall under the Promgirl LLC which began in 1998. Promgirl.com is known as the “The Online Prom Superstore”. Featuring a collection of over 40,000 dresses in 4,000 different styles Promgirl.com and Simplydresses.com are the websites to [...]
Dear Pennies, As you may or may not know, I am a member of the Independent Fashion Bloggers which is a site dedicated to providing tips and tricks for fashion bloggers. Additionally, IFB has a section called Links a la Mode where members of IFB can submit their best post of the week to be [...]
Dear Pennies, For this week’s Tuesday’s Thoughts, I’m featuring an article and video interview originally published on Style Like U. Style Like U interviewed and raided the closet of Ally Hilfiger. In the video interview, Ally identifies herself as a designer, stylist, creative consultant/art director. She also discusses her personal style, why she loves fashion, and the [...]
Dear Pennies, This week, I wanted to feature another male model, Corey Baptiste for Model Mondays. Corey Baptiste has only been modeling since 2009 when he was discovered by his manager Brandon Wilson of VNY Models. Corey has also linked with photographer Sean Kilkenny in order to hone his craft. Together Sean and Corey have produced [...]
Dear Pennies, Last night, I attended a lecture at The Fashion Institute of Technology a.k.a. FIT featuring Hamish Bowles, European Editor at Large of Vogue Magazine. Hamish Bowles spoke on the deceased designer, Cristobal Balenciaga. Balenciaga was called, “The Master of Us All” by Christian Dior and “The Only True Couturier” by Coco Chanel. In [...]
Dear Pennies, I just wanted to briefly introduce you to my new business, Pen Productions which a part of The Network. The Network is a combined venture between me and my business partner, Shirley Lopez. In its entirety, The Network consists of Pen Productions, a digital creative production company and Cacha Management, a company that [...]
Dear Pennies, Recently, I attended the launch of New York emerging designer Chabella Gomez’s ready-to-wear line, “CHABELLA”. I originally met Chabella last Spring at an event for the Learning Annex which featured Joanna Coles, Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire and fashion designer Narcisco Rodriguez. After telling Chabella that I liked her dress, she told me she [...]
Dear Pennies, While I was in Taskent, Uzbekistan covering Style.uz Art Week, I had the pleasure of meeting Fabio Fasolini today’s interviewee. Fabio has been in the fashion industry for over twenty years and for the past eighteen years he has been President and CEO of Studio FP, a photography, video, and artist production company [...]
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