Solange Knowles, she roars out of the fashion speakers on the strength of her propulsive sense of style. Knowles dresses with enough frantic, quavering intensity to make you believe she really is crazy in love with fashion. In that cauldron of energy, Solange’s style is loose and sexy, gripped by emotions she can neither understand nor control. Her closet seems like a massive block party, with attending styles from the modern nouveau riche, Poetic Justice-long braid, and the Parisian women who actually knew Coco. Solange oozes charisma and has a fine catalog of what-to-wear. She has been serving the kids for awhile now, and her style gets better with time. Solange brings an electronica-tinged update on classic style and definitely has hipster tendencies. Perfect. Thank God somebody came to work. –>Inside Story
The spotlight’s hitting something. 2012 welcomes the birth of Pretty Flacko. So much to do and say, so much to see. Go ahead and polar bear plunge to the new year. We at the corner of “give it to ‘em” and “they don’t want it.” Just a few Georgia peaches chasing down a ocean view, pick-a-boo! Keep it up, we gon show you how we party. The architecture of happiness: When we run off for the weekend and the weightless feeling that accompanies us. The clocks ticking to electric music — solid walls of sound. The darkness seems to soothes me while sipping on a dry spirit. Little Egypt Wavy facing these changes, filled my cup with sauvignon blanc for a toast progress. The DJ booked my honeymoon on the dance floor, the most civilized way to open the doors to dos mil doce.
The Birth of Pretty Flacko New Years Eve 2012 with Sham Shirley –>Inside Story
Prep Jerks Holiday Release — “‘Tis the season for giving and receiving, but for us it’s more about giving. Though this season has proven to be harsh and unforgiving we have persevered to bring you guys a bit of holiday relief. Newly available items include 2 fine jersey t-shirt and 1 extra soft ring-spun combed cotton Raglan. Be sure to swing by the Online Shop while supplies last.”
The Brand: “In effort to create the most original and timeless pieces all of our garments are hand pressed. Our brands intent is to provide an alternative prospective to the conventional world of casual wear. This is where high-end meets carefree independent lifestyle. Prep Jerks ® is a high-end independent lifestyle brand based out of Los Angeles, California. Our company was born in the Summer of the year 2005. We believe in quality over quantity which is why each item is produced in limited numbers.”
Sham Shirley
Having transitioned into a more self-mythologizing style, Marquis Phifér has gotten conceptual on you all: His fourth-year (or 5th) installment into the LateBoots brand offers two lifestyles, a collection of heartfelt hustles credited to Phifér in college and a idiosyncratic style credited to his “Prima Donna,” street ways–the more brash, male-empowering alter ego. Though some of the slow summers have thoroughly memorable wins, Phifér boasts his most adventurous hustle yet: life after college in New York. Another plus: The boy who blew up going all melismatic with the flashiest Bob Fosse-meets-rap bravado-moves woke up from the New Years party with a fashion hangover. Hosted at the private Houston home of Glytch Media President Terry Thierry, last night was like a gospel sanctimony and old-fashioned showbiz razzle-dazzle. Chic homes and small waist for twenty twelve. And we playin Jigga.
//Eurodisco New Years Eve 2012 With Prima Donna Phifér & Friends! –>Inside Story
Pictured with Jay-Z New Years Eve 2010 in Las Vegas just twelve months ago. And as the timepiece sacheyed to 12:01am Kanye became a fashion trending topic for the 2011 calender. No-No-No, this is more about your style of living oppose to clothes–lavish dreams, lookin clean, hella green. In this lifetime you either get it or not. Lifestyles are negotiable. Kanye West is my BEST for most things, no shit. Not shocked or gagged right. But before this year was over you knew Phifer had another Kanye initiave under his velvet shoes. I could careless about the others style. Kanye has delievered you trends next day express–everybody had it. Leather pant, Versace for H&M, shirt wrapped around the waist, the Givenchy tour clothes. If you take a gander at his style archives West gets ridiculously maximal, blowing past all the rules of hip-hop, even though, for the past half-decade, he’s been the one inventing the fashion rules. I’ve renamed Kanye, it’s Kanye Best. No West. Just Best. –>Inside Story
Kids on Crosby in the street drinking wine. I’ll show you how to do this son! Derek is so good to us. He needs an extra day or month on the calender. I am dying at this Women’s collection. Both Resort and Spring. Your closet should be dreaming. And with my whole being I support the creative minds behind these garments. Derek Lam‘s recent line 10 Crosby, named after the address of his company’s headquarters in New York, is a new collection inspired by the cool, downtown girls he sees around the neighborhood. Now you want to relocate right? This is what we call the proper adDress: Travel all across the city in colorful garments–Crosby in the Spring. Get into the collections my dear!
And it’s not even birthday! Beautiful things come in small packages with a velvet touch — powerful yet simple with an uncommon elegance. This new release carries strong attention to detail and made a cozy home kicking off my arm party. Beauty is compatible with red-hot performance. Rhod bracelets from the delightfully forward thinking @RRhoxy, one half of the brother and sister duo “Rhu & Rho”, are available for online purchase now. Subtract a few coins from your Christmas money and SHOP SHOP SHOP. Available at http://therhod.com/.
Sham Shirley
Title: Beyonce’s Creative Director, Jenke-Ahmed Tailly is welcomed. With no official background check available for public viewing–I’m hesitant to report his online resume. So I will politely decline in doing so. But let’s not lose focus here, this series is about the FASHAWN! And tapping into the ego. It works for me. As the curtain lifts for “the creators” to perform, and coming off a string of much-publicized style choices for King B’s “4″ album (cue his memorable appearance on “Year of 4″ documentary). Tailly is undoubtedly a monarch of style (even his tag-along fashion moments with Shala Monroque is so “Big Pimpin”). Girls run the world. But who runs the girls? –>Inside Story
Filled to the brim with couples, Galleria shoppers and fashionably dressed girls-night-outers, the Grand Lux Cafe gives off a gilded glare – both from the actual 30-foot-high ceilings and a spacious dining room that feels more palatial than cavernous (the resturant comes wrapped in embossed gold Mylar). But the tone here is serious, sober, weighty – service is snappy and personal; booths are deep and romantically dim, lending a comforting aura to the dining experience. This feels like “luxury dinning.” The expansive menu rides the line between fine cuisine and nouveau comfort food, with an overarching Asian influence. This is an encore on encore on encore of another vicarious experience of opulence! –>Inside Story
Oh, this feels like a tour. The Yoko Ono Tour. The platinum french frame team came out to play–sociopolitical frames. Black at it again. Who you wit? Rollses and Maybachs and Gulfstream jets, five-star hotels and Audemars Piguet watches could not keep us Texas boys away from a reunion. Hey, let me speak it into reality! Lastnight, I had dinner with Terrance Phearse (pronounced Fierce) and his silver jewels. Darling, Terrence Phearse is a contributing fashion editor at ESSENCE.com and market editor at The Blay Report. Currently, he “Works It” at InStyle magazine and is a former HarpersBazaar.com, Louis Vuitton, Vibe, Teen Vogue, LuckyMag.com, and Paper Magazine intern. Terrence holds a B.S. from the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives in New York City. Twas wonderful to catch up with my fellow Houston Monarch! –>Inside Story
Investing in yourself is the #1 GIFT OF ALL TIME. This book highlights the fact that some of us are a walking business. Carefully craft your name, brand and image, in return make money. And that’s just by having a good idea. This item is the classic bestseller that taught the business world that safe is risky; very good is bad; and above all, you’re either remarkable or invisible. In 2002, Seth Godin asked a simple question that turned the business world upside down: What do Starbucks and JetBlue and Apple and Dutch Boy and Hard Candy have that other companies don’t? How did they confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind formerly tried-and-true brands? Godin showed that the traditional P’s that marketers had used for decades to get their products noticed-pricing, promotion, publicity, packaging, etc.-weren’t working anymore. Marketers were ignoring the most important P of all: the Purple Cow. –>Inside Story
I should not be in Texas giving all this fever. And liking vintage fur as a boy this much is somewhat alarming. I don’t know, I am not a big fan of vintage stuff unless it’s a wine. I love vintage clothing but never found the patience to really dig around. If I don’t see anything in plain site-then usually I don’t go digging around. I am not a digger. If you’re lusting for some designer pieces, better off somewhere else. But if you’re looking for some tattered skinny jeans and a throw-on print tshirt – you’ve arrived. Taxi Taxi is a thrift/vintage store in the Montrose area in Houston. It’s resale at the lowest level, but it’s still resale so I dig it. The shoe selection comprises of a great deal of new, but cheaply made currently-in-fashion heels, sandals, and the like. And the clothing selection is along the same lines. I do give them major kudos for having a rather large vintage fur selection – did you see the pics?
There’s also a piercing partition in this store – a little creepy, but nothing like thrifting to work up a deep desire to pierce some fleshy part of you, I guess? On the weekends, they have the $1 bins and racks outside. Can’t say I’ve ever spied anything worthwhile peeking out from the masses of highly unwanted articles of clothing, but if I was more of a good sport, I’m sure there could be a gem or two buried deep within the dozens of questionable looking attire. Happy hunting, I guess?
Taxi Taxi
1657 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77006
Marquis Phifer