Dear Pennies & Pens, As promised here’s the feature length post on Miss F.I.T. 2012: Miss Sasha Blowmeay! Congrats to Ms. Sasha, you deserve the win because you were FAB-U-LOUS! I interviewed Ms. Sasha (aka Akeem) about his/her personal style, life at F.I.T., and his/her future career aspirations. Check the interview below and leave Ms. [...]
Press Pen: Miss F.I.T. 2012: Ms. Sasha Blowmeay
Press Pen: Miss F.I.T. Drag Pageant 2012
Dear Pennies & Pens, First off, please accept my apologies for the lack of posts as of late. It’s been crazy with my clients, and all these other projects I am juggling. Moving right along, I’m so excited to announce that on March 11th, I was a Guest Judge at the Miss F.I.T. Drag Pageant [...]
Press Pen: Daphne Guinness Press Preview at the Museum at FIT
Dear Pennies & Pens, As you may or may not know, style icon Daphne Guinness recently partnered with Dr. Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT to co-curate an exhibition featuring clothing and accessories owned by Daphne. Additionally, the exhibition features films, videos, and images of Daphne. The exhibition is completely focused on Daphne [...]
Press Pen: Editor Preview…Wendy Brandes Fine Jewelry & Stacy Lomman New York
Dear Pennies and Pens, Last week, I had the awesome opportunity of reuniting with Wendy Brandes whom I had met after the Zang Toi show during New York Fashion Week and also Stacy Lomman, a fashion designer and friend of Wendy’s. While we were hanging out and having drinks after the Zang Toi show, Wendy [...]
Press Pen: Happy New Year & Fresh Inkings for de la Pen!
Dear Pennies, Happy New Year! Today, I just wanted to write a quick post to tell you Happy New Year and announce that I’m back from my long blog break and I’m ready to kick off the New Year with fresh inkings for de la Pen! This year, I plan to update old posts, be [...]
Designer Discussion: Hirooka Naoto of h. NAOTO
Dear Pennies, Last Friday, I attended the Japan Fashion Now Symposium at FIT. The symposium ended with a Q&A with FIT’s museum director, Valerie Steele and Japanese fashion designer Hirooka Naoto of the brand h. NAOTO. I decided to dedicate an entire article to Hirooka Naoto because he has really fascinating ideas about fashion and [...]
Press Pen: Japan Fashion Now Symposium Tweets
Dear Pennies, Check out my tweets from the Japan Fashion Now Symposium which give you an excellent play by play and recap of the Symposium. I’ve also added pics from the slideshows to illustrate the tweets. Also, please follow me on Twitter (@LoudPen), I always tweet during events so you can get up to the [...]










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