Our fav movies from the 90’s. Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the poor, African American and Latino gay and transgendered community involved in it. Many consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America.
…Is that I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love me.
Well, metaphorically speaking.
Jodie Smith in her own words.
I’m the girl in this equation, and the boy is Los Angeles [though I fully intend on taking it by the horns and humping it into submission if it doesn't concede with me asking nicely]. Having met me, you probably know that I’m English. I was born in Peterborough, England and came to the States in the late 90’s because my parents split up. My mum has since remarried, and my dad has two kids in the UK (Translation, I have a shit ton of siblings, Brady Bunch style. Except the whole part about singing songs and living in the same house.
I went to university in Pittsburgh (uofpitt) and studied finance, because I thought it was the thing to do… well, it wasn’t. Because after I finished with a finance degree and got a job in corporate lending, I hated my life and my soul was slowly dying (yes, it was that dramatic. I chronicle this extensively in my blog). I guess I looked around and felt like I was surrounded by ordinary people. I didn’t want to be ordinary; to have an ordinary job, marry an ordinary man, have ordinary children, live in an ordinary house, and grow to resent everyone in my ordinary life because I felt I had some unfulfilled dream.
So I quit my job and I moved out here (Los Angeles). To model. To live, as opposed to exist. To get Los angeles, New York, London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, the world to love me. Or something like that. I still figured now that the regret of “shoulda coulda woulda” is way worse than being broke, being hungry, or trying and failing miserably. So that’s my story so far!
I also went to Africa and did a documentary on malaria– [When The Night Comes]. Was the most incredible thing I’ve ever done. This is a teaser trailer. Go to the site and check out the trailer!
Completing samples, collaboration samples, and all other amazing events surrounding the brand. Plus we get to do fun shoots with our close friends and bullshit. Mostly because cause we’re still young at heart and strictly business women. Wink Wink*
Random clips of the week. Peep the Spring 2010 samples!
Stylist to the best female rapper in the game right now miss Fatima B rocking our “Love Don’t Pay the Bills” tee during a backstage interview with Nicki Minaj. Keep posted for Nicki wearing our Barbie Clones tank on the next cover of Fader Magazine….
I usually end up watching The Nanny (don’t ask) but, I also love the watching The Cobsy show when I need my family values fix. Denise Huxtable is known for her style and I just had to take note. Especially seeing how her character and Lisa Bonet conflicted with the utilitarian Cosby model. Cliff would make fun of her clothing choices sometimes, and her character seemed oblivious to the world and more inept with personal morale and creativity. All I can say is…I relate and I love her character. Although I’m sure her lack of realism is made to be a pun. It’s refreshing. Teens shouldn’t make themselves to be superior by envisioning their own world – but they shouldn’t sink under the pressure of being realistic either.
Her clothing, her mind, unparalleled in the cast – and Lisa Bonet herself is a visual muse of mine. Don’t even mention A Different World or Zoe Kravitz.
Even her spawn is blowing your mind…looking all pretty and conflicted.
A transformation of distinct concepts in thought and style.
• A way of viewing reality driven by agents of change.
• A transformation in patterns of standard ideals, implemented by those who choose to think and define themselves outside of conventional bounds.
