Click on the Images to the see the retrospective at the V & A Happy Labor Day Weekend! We're vacationing over the Labor Day Holiday. Here's a little hint of where we are... and it's nowhere near the Victoria and Albert. See you next Fashion Friday. denise If you'd like to guess where we are, leave a comment below.

Last night my husband and I saw Spike Lee latest powerful and poignant movie, BlackkKlansman. We pretty much staggered out of the movie and I was unable to focus on my Fashion Friday post since we spent the rest of the evening in discussion while googling the true story about Detective Ron Stallworth. Needing a quick Fashion Friday post, I recalled an interview Spick Lee did with Terri Gross on Fresh Air. He talked about the influence of Soul Train on his childhood (which wa

Aretha proudly singing at the Inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2019 I'm sure it's not news at this point, but the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin just passed. Her style was referred to that of a "Defiant Deva." She started out her career conforming to the expectations of a woman of gospel; she dressed demurely with straightened hair. As she ascended into stardom, she changed the parameters of how we understood and defined black beauty. As I was scanning the internet

Every now and then I like to feature one of my favorite designers. Knowing my passion for Neoclassical Designer Mariano Fortuny, it's no surprise that I've always been captivated by the work of Madame Grès ,who was known as the "master of the wrapped and draped dress." Unlike Fortuny, who used a chemical process to create his pleats, Grès would direct the flow and folds with her own hands, then the unpressed pleats would be stitched into place, making the pleats to appear to

I was puttering around the kitchen this morning listening to the Pulse on NPR, when it dawned on me "Oh! The Pulse is on... Oh! That means it's Friday... OH! That means I missed my Fashion Friday post!!" (At least I didn't forget to call one of my best friends for her Birthday before I crawled into bed last night!) Between working on my newsletter, my husbands newsletter, and now the Newsletter for Harmony Retreat & Animal Rescue (a not for profit I passionately believe in to