Thursday, January 31, 2008

Fashion Editor? QUe?

I'm sitting down watching the Tyra Banks show and I decided to Google her... [Just for fun] and I find out that she having a reality show about fashionistas trying to become assistant editor for a fashion magazine. What???? That's so what I want to do! So I got really excited and continued to get more information about this reality show, maybe if I try to audition or do whatever it is required I can be in the show and get a chance to win this!

According to buzzsugar.com Tyra Banks and her America's Next Top Model producing partner Ken Mok are expanding into the world of fashion magazines with a show about fashionistas angling for assistant editor jobs. The idea started with the people behind Project Runway. CW has ordered 8 episodes and it’s expected to go into production in spring and premiere late spring or early summer. The series is described as a "The Devil wears Prada" meets with "The Assistant", in each episode the contestants must meet two challenges: individual and group. They would have to submit a page to "The Book" which is a fake edition for a fashion magazine, winning group will move up, the losing group page will go in the trash and will have to one of their members eliminated (=X)

It is a competition show about aspiring assistants looking to become assistant editors at a fashion magazine," says Mok. "At the same time they're trying to prove themselves as aspiring fashionistas, that they have a sense of style and savvyness, all the things to make it in the fashion world."

I'm wondering what kind of magazines are going to judge the contestants and the challenges oohh the challenges. I can't wait! Sounds like a lot of fun..photoshoot, clothes, writing, and Tyra Banks .. I SO WANT TO DO THIS!!! I'll keep you posted on my search of becoming America's Next Top Fashion Editor [Tyra Banks voice].

Haiti today, Haiti tomorrow

This picture above is a picture of someone making "mud cookies", made from dirt, salt and vegetable shortening and have become popular among Haitians desperate to stave off hunger according to the Associated Press reports.

Haiti is so poor that these cookies become the Haitians daily meal, mostly used by pregnant women and children as an antacid and source of calcium. Most of the percent of the population lives on less then $ 2 dollar a day!


It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.

The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.

"When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed at birth.

Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. "When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too," she said.
Food prices around the world have spiked because of higher oil prices, needed for fertilizer, irrigation and transportation. Prices for basic ingredients such as corn and wheat are also up sharply, and the increasing global demand for biofuels is pressuring food markets as well.
The problem is particularly dire in the Caribbean, where island nations depend on imports and food prices are up 40 percent in places.

The global price hikes, together with floods and crop damage from the 2007 hurricane season, prompted the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency to declare states of emergency in Haiti and several other Caribbean countries. Caribbean leaders held an emergency summit in December to discuss cutting food taxes and creating large regional farms to reduce dependence on imports.
At the market in the La Saline slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 cents, up 10 cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost $1.50. Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs $5, the cookie makers say.

Still, at about 5 cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than $2 a day and a tiny elite controls the economy.
Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La Saline market, a maze of tables of vegetables and meat swarming with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places such as Fort Dimanche, a nearby shanty town.

Carrying buckets of dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the former prison for which the slum is named, they strain out rocks and clumps on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt. Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun.
The finished cookies are carried in buckets to markets or sold on the streets.

A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered.
Assessments of the health effects are mixed. Dirt can contain deadly parasites or toxins, but can also strengthen the immunity of fetuses in the womb to certain diseases, said Gerald N. Callahan, an immunology professor at Colorado State University who has studied geophagy, the scientific name for dirt-eating.

Haitian doctors say depending on the cookies for sustenance risks malnutrition.
"Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it," said Dr. Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti's health ministry.

Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her seven children. Her family also eats them.

"I'm hoping one day I'll have enough food to eat, so I can stop eating these," she said. "I know it's not good for me."



So what is the US doing about all that?

If you want to help check out http://www.lambifund.org/, http://www.wfp.org/, http://www.haitichildren.com/index.html




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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Erykah Badu - Honey

I love Erykah Baddu! I'm so happy that she's coming back this year and here's the new video for her song "Honey". Hope you enjoy it!

Love it or Hate it?

Rihanna has become the new "It Girl" , rocking new hot fashion trends and also reportedly dating the R&B superstar Chris Brown (tears tears). Last saturday at the NRJ Awards in France she rocked the red carpet with a new haircut and a stunning grey dress. I love her confidence and how she loves to change things up. Wish I had the guts to do something different about my hair (too scared =X). But here's some pics.. Do you love it or hate it?






















































































Monday, January 28, 2008

Happy Monday!!!



So yesterday I did a fashion show for Ann Taylor at the store on 5Th ave. Ooh yea I'm a model! I know I know I'm a short girl, like 5'1 or 5'2 depends on how I'm feeling lol. I do small and local shows when i get the opportunity, i also do college fashion shows and my school is coming up soon and I'm very excited but that's another subject. Yesterday's show was very nice and not very hectic compared to the other ones I've done. IT WAS A CELEBRATION!!! that was the theme. It was all about resort wear, bridesmaids and guests wear. I was rushing and didn't want to be late I totally forgot my camera so I didn't take any pictures =( . Luckily my cousin came to support me and she took some pictures on her sidekick which are not that great but ehhhh what can you do?









So this the first dress that I wore














































And this is the second dress...







































And the resort outfit
























Might I say that Ann Taylor is stepping her game up! The shoes were also tres cute and sexy. So if you going to a wedding or any celebrations check it out, go to the web www.anntaylor.com or the store which is located on 60Th and 5Th.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Oopsss! =X



Ever since the very first record "Baby One More Time" came out in 1999 I've been a big fan of Britney Spears. I purchased every album, got the t-shirts and since I lived in Haiti then I couldn't go to the concerts so I just watched the videos and the awards on television(yea i know.. sucks). But now she has been kind of a disappointment to me not music wise tho but the choices she makes in life. But can you blame her? She hasn't had a real normal childhood, her personal life has gained so much attention from the media as a result to her stardom. The in & out she did in rehab because of drug and alcohol uses. The marriage with KFed (yuck!) plus all his baby mama drama.. Com'onnnnn! Also the MTV awards was a mess I mean I really was rooting for her! Sigh* so many things with Britney I can't even finish. But I miss her.. the Britney with the pigtails in the school uniform and the one who was madly in love with Justin Timberlake. Really hope she gets better.
P.S. Might I add that her new album is thee best! I listen to it alllllll the time, can't get enough of it! So you might want to consider buying it too. Valentine day present maybe? Hmmm.

Welcome!

Young girl from Haiti, coming to United States at age of 13 with big dreams! Recently figured out what I really want to do as far as a career.. since i like to write and love media I want to become a Journalist, and become an Editor of a magazine. I love Fashion, dance, music and anything that involves arts. I'm new to this blog thing. But i'm doing it as an exercise to help me improve my writing, trying to get everything figured out [LoL]. I will be writing about everything and anything so I hope you enjoy it!

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