The Fashionista Lab

3 months ago I started a new blog, and forgot to tell anyone about it. Inspired by Mater Mea (run by a couple of friends), I wanted to highlight and collect all the stylish black women I see around the internet. Growing up there were very few women I could aspire to be or look like, [...]

Bravo’s “Silicon Valley”, the much talked-about and often maligned new reality show, is finally here. Pretty much all of Silicon Valley has come out against it (especially Sarah Lacy). And I get that it’s a sensitive topic for a lot of people – this place is their life and their livelihood! But being that a) [...]

1. Urban Prototyping is a festival centered around Placemaking Through Prototyping: How Citizen Experiments Reimagine the Public Realm. The festival showed an array of new creative projects which blend the digital and physical to explore new possibilities in public space. 2. Pulse of the City: the heart takes your pulse, plays it back as a beat, then [...]

Who among us – not just fashion bloggers – can be a photographer, model, make-up artist, stylist, and art director? This is the first thing that impressed me about Cindy Sherman. She creates deeply intriguing shoots that could stand on their own as the work of a photographer, make-up artist, or any of the above [...]