b michael @ New York Fashion Week Fall/ Winter 2014

Late in the game I decided I wanted to go to Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center. My friend actress and singer Jean Michelle Grier was thrown a birthday party at b michael's salon several years ago, so I sent him an e-mail and his team e-mailed me back a standing room invite. I was so happy. Since I didn't have a seat I stuck my iPhone in one pocket and my Nikon Cool Pix in the other. The show was in the Pavillon with seating in the round, one of the PR team members found me a front row seat. Lucky me. I researched his career and wrote a post for The Huffington Post, Glam Master b michael". The show was breathtaking and I saw Cicely Tyson, Tamara Tunie, Terry Lundgren CEO of Macy's (b michael America Red collection is sold exclusively there), Harriet Cole and model/actress Alva Chinn. I got so many good shots I decided to share them here.

Black + Beautiful Vogue Cover Girls

The first black model to grace the cover of British Vogue was Donyale Luna in 1966. Donyale went on to star in movies directed by Otto Preminger, Federico Fellini and Andy Warhol, before the end of her short tumultuous life. The cover of Vogue is the pinnacle of any model’s career. The honor can lead to high-end fashion and beauty contracts, film, TV and commercial roles and entrepreneurial enterprises. The first African American model on the cover of American Vogue was Beverly Johnson. Her career achievements include film and TV roles, two beauty books and a successful hair product line. Beverly is the star of a reality show on OWN“Beverly’s Full House”. real estate entrepreneur. The second African American model to score a Vogue cover was Peggy Dillard. Peggy is now a successfulHer Harlem salon, Turning Heads was on the vanguard of the natural hair movement. Somalian beauty Iman is also a multi hyphenate talent. Iman is an actress, author and CEO of Iman Cosmetics. Many Vogue…

Where are the Sex Symbols?

Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch , Pam Grier, Brigette Bardot, Farrah Fawcett and Sophia Loren.
Those gorgeous goddesses who are beautiful, talented and curvaceous of course. The women who inspire dreams, lived our fantasies, redefine fashion, reinvent sexy and start a rebellion on screen. Where are the Sex Symbols?

"MINISTER OF SELF DEFENSE"

Last year I remembered a documentary I saw produced by Antoine Fuqua called, "Bastards of the Party" about the Bloods and the Crips. The director, a former gang member felt the gang turf wars grew out of the restless generation that came after The

Black Panther Party who patrolled to monitor police brutality during the civil rights era. I thought it was fascinating it got me to thinking about Huey P. Newton co-founder and Minister of Self Defense of The Black Panther Party. I started reading everything on his life and work. Truly a labor of love one book on Eldridge Cleaver (Eldridge Cleaver author of Soul on Ice and Minister of Information became a Republican ) would lead me to a book on Geronimo Pratt and on to a book about his lawyer Johnnie Cochran and so on. I read Alondra Nelson' book, “Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination” for her extensive research on the Party's healthcare activism. Tumbler is a great source for …

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