In Durban South Africa it is hot! Despite having had some rainfall over the last 2 days, the heat persists. Though November ends in 3 days the intense climate negotiations that have come to characterize the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties will continue to rage on through December 9th, [...]

The first time I ever saw Jimi was in London in a Carnaby Street boutique called “I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet.”  I had been reading in the local papers, in Disc and Music Echo and Melody Maker and the New Musical Express, about this wild man from Borneo with all the hair and the guitar-eating [...]

August 8th, 1968 Dearest Dad,   Well… I know you probably wonder what happened to me ——– Well nothing good.  I just quit Little Richard.  He didn’t pay us for 5 ½ weeks… and you can’t live on promises when you’re on the road – So I had to cut that mess loose – And [...]

She’s not called a super-model for nothin’. This weekend in  Düsseldorf  Naomi Campbell will be awarded the Pyramide Con Mani award by Unesco for her continued commitment to charity.  This is the 20th year this prize has been awarded.  Previous recipients include The Dalai Lama, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker.

See for yourself why.

“The idea is to create thought through the mutual sharing of visions and points of view.  The Miu Miu Musings gather the fashion intelligentsia and key cultural figures to face each other on topics related to fashion, intending the latter as a form of expression, a representation of the zeitgeist a diagram of taste.  Due [...]

Whenever she was asked about her start in the world, the legendary saloonkeeper Bricktop—born Ada Smith—replied: On the fourteenth day of August 1894, in the little town of Alderson, West-by-God-Virginia, the doctor said, “Another little split-tail,” and on that day Bricktop was born. T. S. Eliot later added, “…and on that day Bricktop was born. [...]

By: Marjon Rebecca Carlos for Huffington Post   On the eve of New York Fashion Week, I found myself tipping slowly into the Uptown location of Miu Miu for the Italian luxury brand’s Fashion Night Out event with a very tall date on my arm. We whispered to one another to assuage the apprehensions of [...]