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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2024

LUAR presented at Rockefeller Plaza‘s skating rink—they’re getting so creative with their locations—with Madonna, Ice Spice, Coco Jones, and various Housewives in attendance. Offset popped up on the runway, just hours after Cardi B gave birth to their third kid. I must say…she’s got a strange way of putting a muthafucka on notice. Laverne Cox, Dylan Mulvaney, Justin Theroux and Coco Rocha came…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2024

Business never stops, not even on Sunday, and especially during Fashion Week. OFF-WHITE at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier showcased nepo-babies on the catwalk including Madonna’s son Banda and Solange Knowles’ son, Daniel. The front row crew included Issa Rae, Gold medal gymnast Suni Lee, Zayn Malik, and Lena Waithe. It’s always nice to see Ms. H herself and there she was Monday morning, front…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2024

Friday was a busy day. CHRISTIAN SIRIANO’s show at the Pierre Hotel had Selma Blair, Cyndi Lauper, Tiffany Haddish and Christina Hendricks in attendance. Lil’ Kim showed up late, stuffed into a corset two sizes too small. By the end of the show, one of those balloon boobs of hers was out there. It wasn’t pretty, either. ALAIA at the Guggenheim was fun. It was the museum’s first time as a fashion…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2024

Here we go! New York Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday evening with HARLEM FASHION ROW pulling us uptown to the drama of Grant’s Tomb. This year, special honors were bestowed upon stylist Shiona Turini, Harper Bazaar’s editor-in-chief Samira Nasr, Teyana Taylor, and Icon of the Year, Miss Naomi Campbell, late like always. Anna W. threw shade and Naomi threw it right back…once she arrived. Petty…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2024

Another Fashion Week has dropped on NYC like Dorothy’s house in the land of Oz, and I am more than ready for it! Between the runway presentations, private appointments and pop-up every-thang, it’s like one long happy meal for me. Late night parties and soiree on top of soiree will keep us hyped for the next several days. Can you hang? Well jump on, baby! Let’s ride! New York Fashion Week…

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Just A Girl And Her Milliner

LISA MCFADDEN MILLINERY is Winona’s most favorite go-to when nothing but a kick-ass hat will do. Through the years she’s sported CRUSH CAPS and FEMDORAS, not to mention the specialty hats Lisa creates for her MET GALA-themed gowns. When it’s time for a show-stopping topper, Lisa McFadden Millinery is the only way to go. The Met Gala 2024 is May 6. Wonder what they’re cooking up? Stay tuned.

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What She Wore During NY Fashion Week - September 2023

Rarely does it happen but I had a jam Wednesday evening. There was just no way I could do Badgley Mischka at Delmonico’s in the financial district at 5pm, chat with my girl Coco Mitchell for a moment, and then make it all the way up to the Red Rooster restaurant in Harlem for Byron Lars, Sheila Gray and my favorite milliner Lisa McFadden’s IN EARNEST presentation at 6. I had to make a choice and…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2023

I started Tuesday morning at Brandon Maxwell’s presentation at 10am, hit Gabriela Hearst’s show at noon over in Brooklyn at Agger Fish and then hauled ass back across the river for Bach Mai‘s first runway show at the DiMenna Center at 2. He got loads of support from Kate Beckinsale, Misty Copeland, Joy Sunday and Sherry Cola, all cheering him on. Carolina Herrera at 4pm in the Whitney Museum…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2023

On Monday Michael Kors woke us up with lots of pretty lace in Williamsburg but by nightfall, LaQuan Smith and his special brand of sleaze pulled us back across the river to the Lower East Side. It’s kind of wild seeing him blow up like he has in what seems like just a few short years. Not so short to him I’ll bet! And his front row was jammed with Babyface, M. J. Blige (who’s stylist should…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - September 2023

On Saturday several of my models were on Crosby Street in the LaPointe show so I made it a point to attend. See what I did there? Lots of young energy was in the crowd. Marsai Martin, all grown up now, sat next to a blonde Jordyn Woods and socialite Olivia Palermo. Bachelorette Tayisha Adams and Shenseea were a few seats away. They jammed up traffic and towards the end we were dodging raindrops…

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What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? My old t-squares and rulers from art school.

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - Part Three

What She Wore During Fashion Week – Part Three

Something’s up. I’m not sure what exactly because Anna is being Anna and not saying much but after a full day of Carolina Herrera, Coach, Frederick Anderson and Ashlyn, last night’s VOGUE WORLD closed down 13th street and ushered in a different type of fashion show experience. It was the culmination of what’s been happening these last few years on the runway. Street vendors selling food, live…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - Part 2

What She Wore During Fashion Week – Part 2

The casting director from Jason Wu selected Winona, Inc.’s hippiest models. I noticed that and then I saw why. On Friday at Pier 17, he featured slinky dresses, gowns and satin-y trousers that took me back to the glory days of Calvin and Donna, when we’d strut the runway with long legs and mad swivel hips. Those girls were slinging it from left to right! I got that same vibe from Sergio Hudson…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - PreGame

What She Wore During Fashion Week – PreGame

It’s my favorite time of year once again. New York Fashion Week! And The Apple is coming back, baby! I still wear a mask but many don’t anymore. That’s just how it is. The pre-activities started up in Harlem with the Fashion Row’s annual show on Tuesday evening. Sergio Hudson was chosen Designer of the Year, Issa Rae won the Virgil Abloh Award and Janet Jackson was named Icon of the Year but she…

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What She Wore During Fashion Week - Sept. 2022

What She Wore During Fashion Week – Sept. 2022

Here we go! Another Fashion Week is upon us and breathing fire! There’s runway presentations and digital activations, live streaming, private appointments, interactive activities, and parties up the whazoo. Those who abandoned Fashion Week are tripping over themselves to get back in. Fashion marches on, baby. It’s catch-up time now!

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Jay's Wedding

Jay’s Wedding

It’s wedding season. And thank you Jesus, Buddha, Eshu, and Muhammad, many people are doing it outdoors and insisting that guests come vaccinated and boosted. I hopped a private jet with Issa and the INSECURE cast (those who were invited) for Jay Ellis’ wedding weekend in Tuscany. The guests were asked to wear earth tones to the ceremony and while I usually blow off those types of requests and…

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Summer Parties 2022

COVID cases are up again, dammit. And I’ve been so good about staying safe, uber-picky about which events to attend. It’s all about being outdoors for me this summer and last weekend was a big outdoor weekend! At the Gucci soiree, we roamed the grounds of stylist Elizabeth Saltzman’s spread in East Hampton like happy cattle. Glad I wore wedgies. I caught up with ex-models Christy Turlington and…