Phifer playing dress up with Marilyn. Do you dress much? Such moments are too scarce when two brands collaborate on a product, –creating a vicarious experience of opulence. I’m wearing the Android Homme luxury sneakers curated by Heineken. Is that pony hair? #Opulence for the foot. Razzle-dazzle even. Recently I received these limited-edition lux sneakers (only 100 produced) courtesy of the #Heineken100 club and Team Epiphany. (I love this 1 0f 100 influencer trump card). Details though: Lifestyle label Android Homme, founded in 2008 by Javier Laval, is a footwear brand that combines avant-garde style of high-end designs with a streetwise sensibility. The luxury shoe brand partnered with Heineken using the iconic Android Homme 2.5 Propulsion sneaker/boot for a collaboration utilizing a sleek black leather upper with pony hair on the ankle and tongue, a green inner lining, and the Heineken logo stamped on the side of the shoe. (This is a boasting and gloating type of shoe. The details are punch lines, –fast and furious).
PHOTO: Phifer playing dress up in the Android Homme x Heineken 2.5 Propulsion Sneaker + Check out the exclusive video showcasing the collab between Heineken and Android Homme captured by photographer extraordinaire Mel D. Cole. Inside you can view the Android Homme x Heineken Sneaker event video. Thank you, and you’re welcome. –>Inside Story
Healthy living. I rode down to catch some of that ocean glow perfecto. While you’re making a living don’ t forget to live. From the twilight zone to dusk, make my day with a “cheers!” What’s your flavor? A double scoop of palm tress in the middle of winter are selling me today, and that’s a loaded gun. It’s a fact, kiss kiss. I made no resolutions for the New Year. “The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” — Words from Anaïs Nin somehow fit me like a glove. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. Take the journey and enjoy it for whatever it brings. Can you hear me switching lanes? I can see the vibration in the side view mirror.
New York singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, songs of dark troubled love affairs, took the cake for 2011′s Rising Star. Her single Video Games played at Christopher Kane and Emilio de la Morena‘s Spring/Summer 2012 shows. Del Rey has also recently signed with Next Model Management under their talent division with likes of Alexa Chung, Jessie J and Ellie Goulding. I’d say that’s a proper initiation into the fashion scene. “I’m making big decisions. I have integrity with my music,” Del Rey tells Elle UK. The latest Lana Del Rey track is titled Off to the Races which debuted an official video made with random found footage by Del Rey herself.
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Skyscraper. Marcell Harris of Major Model Management taking to the urban junlge of New York City for a new editorial shot by John Burke and styling by Javon Drake. Harris is from a little city of big dreams. Striving for excellence, he knows no limitations, making his mark in history one day at a time. Mr. Marcell is an artist of many forms and plans to display his wide array of talents unto the world. Traveling both in and out of the country, Marcell considers himself to be an anthropologist; social and cultural differences act as muses for his work, expanding his horizons as his journey progresses. Full Editorial Inside. –>Inside Story
GILDED AGE: “Because my friends [are] the best-looking people in Atlanta, the most fashionable, it’s kind of like a generation of tastemakers that I’ve aligned myself with.”
“I’ve become infatuated with furs as of late,” Marquis Phifer says without a hint of irony. “I counted the other day, I have like 15.”
Creative Loafing writes: It’s not hard to find photos of Phifer on his five-year-old fashion blog, LateBoots.com, donning a chinchilla vest, custom-tailored denim, or a pair of Stubbs & Wootton velvet slippers while striking that elusive sideways pose his friends like to call “Phifer face.” But his sense of style — “casual luxury,” he says — is only a means to an end. Identifying that end, however, is the tricky part. It’s not that Phifer can’t define what he does, but it’s sort of his job to keep us guessing.
“People ask me that all the time, what do I do. And that’s a question I’ve never answered because it’s almost like, what don’t I do,” says the Morehouse College senior and business major. “I’m able to kind of do everything that needs to be done.” Marquis Phifer is a master of mystique if nothing else — but there’s always something else when Phifer’s involved, and it usually comes with a check attached. Lifestyle marketer: Check. Fashion blogger: Check. Stylist: Check. Socialite: Check.
In essence, Phifer’s “job title” is cultural translator. “Major brands don’t know how to talk to [us],” he says. “So I become the mediator between me and my friends, [who] are the consumers, and kind of bring the language down to a level where both parties understand each other.” CLICK HERE | for full article.
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