Beauty Suite by Kiyah Wright hosted by Gabrielle Union

During the madness of All-Star weekend

I had the opportunity to assist in Celebrity Hairstylist Kiyah Wright's

Beauty Suite.

It was a FAB Event!!

Make up, manicures, hair styling and shopping!!

All in one place!!

A girls dream right!

I definitely thought so.

Check out the video for an in depth look at the event.

Curate Couture

In the nook of Brentwood this little jewel has found a home.

Curate Couture a carefully crafted Boutique filled with delicious vintage goodies and lavish consignment pieces has planted its heels and is making a statement.

 Curate, is co-owned by two women I have had the honor of looking up to and becoming friends with

Vintage Guru Micaela Beckwith formerly of Decadestwo and Miriam Sternoff stylist.

These two ladies have joined forces with Lauren Raquel and have already created a vintage utopia.

 Stepping one foot in the door is like walking into the closet of your favorite 1950's movie star.

It is completely breath taking.

For more information visit:

Curate Couture
Photos by: Lindsay Flans
via HuffingtonPost

Token

As of lately I have been doing contributing writting for Our Weekly newspaper in Los Angeles.

Fashion writting of course. In our of our last issues I discussed the lack of color on the runways. The disappearance of Black Models. In such a beautiful industry, we are missing a beautiful people.

I pulled this short film from Essence this morning. It touches on the issue and gives insider opinions on what agencies are looking for, and why Black models arent chosen as often.....

"They are looking for white girls dipped in chocolate"

Click the links below


Short Film Explores Black Model's Plight - Essence.com

Model Behavior

Chris Brown featured in Flaunt

Chris Brown was featured in the latest issue of Flaunt Magazine.

Crank up the heat

Shuffeling through my morning blogs I came across a very interesting article.

Apparently, Ms. Knowles-Carter is not only breaking charts selling records...

but her frangrance as well. WWD, as well as The Cut report that the Macy's chain store sold

$3 million of the fragrance between February and March.

Not to mention on the day of her instore the company sold

72,000 bottles!

Big Business..minus the Business Suit.

via: The Cut

Opportunist

Take advantage of the space your in,

the visibilty you receive....

after all your network will always increase your networth.

Matt Kemp x Crooks and Castle
via: JL

Vogue Italia Relaunch

Vogue Italia has relaunched their website to now include a page for Vogue Curvy (for full-figured woman), Vogue Black (for African Americans), and Vogue Talents (for up-and-coming talent). The site includes features such as video interviews, photo galleries, articles, and more. Along with the relaunch of the website has come controversy. 

Many are glad to finally see Vogue Italia extend their coverage to all walks of life but many remain bothered by the fact that it done so separately. Instead of Vogue Italia including these new pages within the website as a whole it instead excluded them as if they are too inferior to be included on to the main page. Although Vogue Italia did issue an All-Black issue it makes  us feel as women of color with curves that we do not deserve to be incorporated into the magazine on a regular basis. Vogue Italia does not stand alone for their separatist ways we also have to fault our own magazine companies such as Essence Magazine & Latina Magazine for focusing on one particular race. Do we blame ourselves for this unjust behavior?


You can visit the re-launched Vogue Italia site here.

Stella McCartney +GAP Kids

From the beginning of my fashion love affair I have adored Stella McCartney.
From her education at Central St. Martins (which debated on attending), to her production and
now her collaborations. She has always been a favorite.
For me she is someone who mixes girly, flirtatious designs with fairy tale princess palettes.
Any one who knows me will tell you that with a little Rock star's daughter edge is the epitome of who i am.
I am loving the collaboration....
Rock moms will definitely be dressing there angels in these pieces
This will be a 70 piece collection.
I just die
(in my Rachel Zoe voice)

http://lmortlock.blogspot.com

I just *flatlined*

The new chocolate diet.

Lance Gross

Shout out to Eva!

Shawty get's it in.

My girl Jin and I will be hitting up the Report Event

for SUrrrrrreeeee

Legends of the Fall.

Contemplating the close of Vibe magazine I am truley sadended. As a young fashion maven while in college I dreamed of one day gracing the pages with artisticly styled images of beautiful people. I read the masthead every month to become familiar with the entire fashion department. I think I read Vibe and Vibe Vixen more than I read my school books...well at least they were my first choice for reading material. I lived for the 20 questions. Nonetheless I am very sad to see it go. First I parted ways with Suede Magazine who moved from my fashion magazine collection after a few editions to my vintage book collection. Now Vibe. There is a need for tangible reading material full of African-American people, beautiful, successful and amazing. With the growth of e-zines and the decline in the economy I understand the change but there is nothing like flipping pages. May there fashionable souls rest.