For anyone snubbing the Saint Louis Fashion Fund for daring to make St. Louis a fashion scene, emerging designers are finding success, exposure, and mentorship here. Designers are in a supportive community of art and fashion enthusiasts eager to patronize. Many attendees at the St. Read More …
Fashion icon and living legend, André Leon Talley, gave me the honor of an interview. His fashion knowledge is established. However, what impressed me most is that he is an intellectual exuding southern hospitality. Mr. Talley is an elocution tactician. The rhythm of his words fascinated me Read More …
St. Louis is poised to take its place as an American fashion mecca. The Saint Louis Fashion Fund is restoring the city’s fashion roots with its incubator program luring promising designers with studio space, on-site manufacturing and boutique making designers’ fashion lines immediately available to Read More …
Just like Pepsi’s culturally insensitive ad and Gucci copying Dapper Dan‘s fashion design, Crown Royal has jumped on the cultural appropriation bandwagon. Unless you are investing dollars in the community you are co-opting, then it is NOT appreciation it is appropriation. My latest article on Read More …
“You are angry, no? Your passion empowers your words.” My writing mentor wrote this after reading my article, Superwoman Has Left the Building. I published that article sitting in a terminal at O’Hare airport waiting for my flight to Milan. I was running away to Read More …
After two months in Italy, I dreaded returning to the States. America’s political climate was unavoidable abroad as I was constantly asked, “What is happening in America?” Also, my hometown of Chicago was not the same place I left six years ago when I moved Read More …
I am still traveling abroad. It has been a little over a month. Originally, I did not plan to write any articles while abroad. I wanted to rest, relax, and reset my mental compass. When in Europe, I spend a lot of time visiting churches. Read More …
“I’m a super girl and I’m here to save the world, but I wanna know who’s gonna save me?” Nobody. I finally took a major step and decided that my health and well-being would come first. Shonda Rhimes had her Year of Yes. This is Read More …
I’ve seen the future of food and it includes drones! Wednesday night I attended the Taste of Innovation for a look into the future of food and what a feast! My latest article on Huffington Post discusses the next food frontiers. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taste-of-innovation-new-frontiers-in-food_us_58a5ef8de4b0fa149f9ac2f4
For those that say “give Trump a chance,” I do not have the privilege or luxury to ignore him making fun of the disabled, denigrating women, or his racist policies against blacks. He refused to rent to them. He took out full page ads against Read More …