Mind Of A Songstress

Photo Courtesy of Michael Goltz Photog  Designer Abby Baldwin & Model

Fashion Designer Angie Fec's models  Photo courtesy of

Model Cassie Mittal

Model Dessie Mitcheson

Model Quennette Battle (middle)

Fashion Designer Nina VanSuch

Model: Soigne Legacy

Model Jennifer Childers

This past Sunday April 29th was the long Awaited Willy Gee's fashion show " Fashion Over War" I was there in full force! tweeting & fbooking during the event. It did however begin an hour after the originally 7pm start time. That left me restless and eager as ever for the show to get started.There were venders selling jewlery, Indian Hair weave... (WOW) and AriBella's T-Shirt line was there as well. Here's a few of my favorite designs shots courtesy of Makindi Photo!

Fashion week is again upon us fashionistas Fashion bloggers and all of you coutoure, designer heads!! I am going to be giving my personal comments on various fashions!
Betsey Johnson is one of my favorite designers! Here's a look at some of her Runway collection for 2012 FW Spring

So since I was the "chocolate" skin toned,  girl i wasn't really teased until middle school when white chicks started saying i talk like a "valley girl" it didnt REALLY botjer me until i started hearing when i moved down to Georgia which of coarse the south even today rasiciam is still prevalent. I had issues with the girls saying thing mostly about my hair, cause it's natually long comments like " is that your real hair", " does your mom have long hair" "what are you mixed with? " Nothing. well on my mom's side there is caucasian and native American and/or what we call down south Creole which is A person of mixed European and black descent, esp. in the Caribbean  or A descendant of Spanish or other European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America . Basically mixed, That is the dictionary defintition. With that said, Black is Beautiful seems to have been a phrase that has been tragically questioned amonst the Black race as a whole, particualrly in the south. I wanted to bring this issuse to light. (no pun intended)  The face that race within the Black community is STILL an issue. A while back I was watching a Tyra episode and i am recalling the topic "Do light-skinned-women-have it Better?"  there were of coarse lots of varying opinions. Back in history it was said that the lighter skinned people sis the housework and the darker-skinned slave was in the field picking cotton and doing the "dirty-work" because they were darker skinned. Fast forward to 2011 the 21st century and everything that we as a people and African American women as a double minority have accomplished!! Oprah,Angela Basset,Brandy,Aretha Franklin,Jennifer Hudson,Aaliyah, Jill Scott and many more strong black women who are just as sucessful if not more than their light skinned counterparts. I was recelty watching an episope of " The Tyra Show" the topic was "Racial perceptions and Preconceptions on race" it was about these lighter skinned Black women who experience issues with being called "bi-racial" when they are actually 100% African American , what they go through because people think that they're mixed. I understand that they have issuse but it almost seemed like they were feeling sorry for themselves because they look part white, and they felt that they had it bad,
when it's ironic because you would think it's the opposite. I am Black and Beautiful and have ALWAYS felt that way. I hope this post educated and enlightens young African American women of EVERY complextion!

Supermodel Alex Wek

Supermodel Iman