What's Haute Now: Smurfette For Harper's Bazaar

I'm a fan and I'm sure there are probably millions of women who are still fans of the Smurf's, those lovable blue creatures that I first fell in love with when I lived in Germany. Well, it seems that with the shortage of real live models of color Harper’s Bazaar  is debuting a new model and she’s blue! In its August issue the mag has taken photoshop to a whole new level and run a tongue-in-cheek fashion spread featuring Smurfette, the leading lady of the new The Smurfs movie – pirouetting across the pages showcasing designer accessories from Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton.


Photo/Source: Harper's Bazaar

ONE LOOK: JOAN SMALLS FOR BOTTEGA VENETA FALL 2011 RTW

Joan Smalls...Glamtastic for Bottega Veneta
Check out the rest of Tomas Maier's confetti creations here.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos

TWO LOOKS: AJAK DENG AND ROSE CORDERO FOR ALEXANDRE VAUTHIER SS 2011 HAUTE COUTURE

Photo: Dominique Maitre



Vogue Italia Hits The Web

The Opening page of VOGUE Italia's VOGUE BLACK

Leave it to the international editions of magazines to be the first when it comes to showing diversity, too bad their American counterparts have yet to be so courageous when it comes to inclusion. Fashionistas everywhere can now get a daily dose of Italian and European style and also visit a section of Vogue Italia solely dedicated to models of color, writers, artist and so on and even Vogue Curvy.

Thanks, Shala for these delicious morsels of style bites. Thanks are definitely in order for Franca Sozzani, the Editor of Vogue Italia who gave us one of ( probably) the best selling issues(The Black Issue) in Vogue Italia's publishing history and shows us the love!

Maybe she can teach you know who a thing or two when it comes to selling magazines and let her know that style and fashion is global and is accessible to everyone and having a woman of African heritage, Hispanic, or Asian woman on an American VOGUE cover can and will sell magazines! Style is not meant to offend, only an ignorant individual would think so!