Lioness in the Concrete Jungle

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Grace Jones on the first Night of the Syndney Festival 2009! Grace Jones vs. Rihanna!!!!

Grace Jones performs on the first night of the Sydney Festival...

How about when I first saw this, I thought for a second it was Rihanna...I see how she has influenced some of Rihanna's latest styling now that I think about it...however I knew it wasn't Ol' Ri-Ri, when I SAW THIS!!!

(SCROLL DOWN AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!)

this would be okay if Grace didn't qualify for Senior Citizen discounts!!! But hey you can't knock Grace for doing her...she clearly never cared what we thought!!

Now check out more of GRACE JONES VS. RIHANNA!!!

HMMM...looks like Bad Girl Grace Jones gone GOOD...what do you think???

S&M with a smile...

Grace's version

both love animal print....

Rihanna's red carpet version

Grace rockin the hood HER WAY

Rihanna's MUCH tamer version

John Legend and Estelle Perform at the The Pearl In The Palms Casino Resort

John Legend performing at The Pearl in The Palms Casino Resort in Vegas last night...
so it looks like they've enlisted Rihanna's stylist (peep leather and cut out gloves)for Ol' John...definitely different from the usual Ricky Ricardo -esque looks he normally rocks....OK John...

Estelle doin what she does...!

cute shirt..

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Blast from the Past...Early Lionesses: Les Nubians celebrate with Catherine Malandrino at her boutique in New York

Celia Faussart of Les Nubians performs at Catherine Malandrino boutique in NYC

Definitely an unexpected and inlikely pairing! Who would have thought that you would see Celia Faussart (one half of) Les Nubians resurface in the states at designer Catherine Malandrino's boutique of all places. I used to have their CD on repeat in earlier days...good music! Would love to see more of these ladies...

In case you're not familiar Les Nubians are a female duo that came out of Bordeaux, France, in the 1990s, Les Nubians offered a jazzy, sophisticated style of R&B that combined French lyrics with the influence of Sade, Soul II Soul, hip-hop, and African pop. The duo consists of sisters Helene and Celia Faussart, who were born in France to a French father and a Cameroonian mother.

Check out this throwback video of one of their more known songs "Makeda"

Les Nubians " Makeda " - Les Nubians

Work of ART...

Friday, January 9, 2009

Lioness of the Week: Brea "BStar" Stinson...Stylist and Designer to the Stars!!

Hustle: Fashion(designing and styling)

City: Motor City to New York City and beyond(stamping passport #2)

1. When I was a kid I daydreamed about....

Being Diana Ross and Madonna smashed together into something called Brea while dancing part-time on SOLID GOLD and perfecting fabulous grilled cheeses for my husband Prince

2. As an adult I daydream about...

Having the legacy of Diana Ross, having Madonna's paper and performing on SNL (eating the perfected grilled cheeses myself)!

3. In my group of friends...

I'm the one who teased everyones bangs on picture day and tweaked everyones outfits before exiting the girls lavatory.

4.When I was a little girl I was told I couldn't...

Take on five husbands like Elizabeth Taylor because I was a little girl (FYI, I'm no longer a little girl)!

5. I broke into my industry...

By accident- I was designing clothes and hustling my pieces while in college. I met a stylist with hopes of her using some of my stuff on her celeb clients. She began to hire me as an assistant, taught me the ropes, the do's and dont's, the good, bad and the ugly of the craft. I became an independent stylist and word of mouth has carried me.

6. Favorite part of what I do:

Is creating a look that my client can own and live up to!!!! its a wonderful feeling, being trusted with the imaging of my clients. It's a huge deal to a part of someone else's dream, while realizing my own!

7.Least favorite part of what I do:

Lugging bags,counting wardrobe cases, and the high expectation from artists' for lots of bags and wardrobe cases with today's declining budgets, YIKES!!!!!!!

8. I admire fashion stylist Mariel Haenn and ME. We are both signed to the same agency, Balan inc!!!

9.Fav brands- I'm really feeling Givenchy and Lanvin for women right now. Tom Ford and Etro for men. Lerok and Desquared do it for me on an affordable level!

10.The moment my hustle pays off will be:

When I present BSTAR in the Bryant Park tents during NYC Fashion Week!

11. My family is proud of me because I dreamed big as kid and I'm living that dream now.

12.Shameless Plug: BSTAR, "barack o. mama" tees and "freelance star" tees available on http://www.smashingdarlings.com/

Clients include: Raheem DeVaughn, Usher, Electrik Red, D'Angelo(the new project), Superbowl commercial for State Farm featuring Lebron James

Check it out...Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs Pay Tribute to Stephen Sprouse - Polaroids

Model and British "It Girl" Agyness Deyn

Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan - 2 icons

Agyness Deyn and BAG!!!! (that I want very badly...would look great with those shoes I posted...scroll down!!)

Model and TV personality Veronica Webb and Nicola Vassell

Veronica Webb

Model Chanel Iman, Mary Alice Stephenson and Arlenis Sosa (new Dominican model who killed the catwalks at Fashion Week)

Model Agyness Deyn

Partricia Fields.. designer and stylist of Sex and the City gals

Arlenis Sosa

ATMOSPHERE AND PERFORMANCES:

DJ JusSke and Andre Harrell

Kid Cudi performing...WOW..MAJOR look for him!

Debbie Harry peforming

See Jan 1 post to view the collection!!

Lady Gaga on Letterman

Why was I afraid her panythose were gonna slide down the whole time? Interesting performance....

Thursday, January 8, 2009

When is enough ENOUGH

Last night I went to go see Notorious (you saw a post earlier w/ the celebs that attended- and yes it was DOPE) and without saying too much (so you can't say I ruined it for you), there is some reference to the East Coast vs West Coast beef that we could easily say led to the demise of both BIGGIE & PAC. Well as you may remember the press had a field day with the ignorance that was being spewed from artists and more so their goons (the idiots who actually acted on the shit talking) and really glorified and catapulted an issue that Pac had with Biggie into a straight up Coastal Turf war. Well below is an interview Angela Yee, and her guest cohost Joe Budden, did w/ DJ VLAD... watch this and see where i'm going with this....

Here's the last video Joe put up in response to this ongoing bullsh*t!... I'm not mad @ him @ All.

Hey...my B-Day is coming up for anyone who happens to be paying attention...!!

Naturi Naughton talks about playing Lil Kim in Notorious

Lil Wayne on ESPN

Okay I have no clue what they're talking about..forgive me...but this is interesting to watch..because hey, its rare to see Wayne without his Styrofoam cup in hand and basically acting normal. Check out the glasses..and Burberry sweater..getting his intellectual on for his debate I guess..lol