http://thehotness.com spirit.fire.she Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thehotness.com/2011/06/16/fashion-industry%e2%80%99s-problem-with-black-girls/ http://thehotness.com/2011/06/16/fashion-industry%e2%80%99s-problem-with-black-girls/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:18:13 +0000 theHotness http://thehotness.com/?p=2245 UPDATE (06.21.11): Vogue Italia Editor-in-Chief, Franca Sozzani, responds to recent claims that the Fashion Industry is racist. The title of her post, which was published yesterday, “Why It Is So Hard To Scout For Black Models?” never really gets answered. Instead Sozzani minimizes the allegations of racism by saying that the media has an unfortunate need to be controversial: “I feel sorry for being a journalist. I do understand that few of us do this Read more...

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On Thursday night I was shown some extraordinary birthday love and treated to dinner and a VIP-pass to see Janelle Monae’s show at the Highline Ballroom. This was only my second time seeing the Wondaland phenom, and so I was revved up especially since I had already heard most of her upcoming album– The ArchAndroid, which I think is blazing like a Drew Barrymore double-crosser in Fire Starter. If Erykah is the ultimate Read more...

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