Brown Sista

Brown Sistas from across the Hollywood spectrum turned out in force tonight for the start of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala. This year’s event is being held to celebrate the museum’s latest exhibition: Sperheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.Singers Janet Jackson, Beyonce and Mary J. Blige walked the red carpet alongside actresses like Thandie Newton and Paula Patton and all looked fabulous.
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Fashion Week officially kicked off Monday and since then there have been dozens of fashion and fashion related events attended by Brown Sistas. Sudanese model Alek Wek debuted her book, Alek: From Sudanese Refugee To International Supermodel at a glitzy party at Socialista. Among those in attendence were fellow Afrikan model Iman, designer Diane Von Furstenberg and model-mogul Kimora Lee Simmons. Ciara also showed up for the fashion festivities and was seen taking in the BCBG Max Azaria show along with Ashley Simpson. Actress Joy Bryant attended Glamour Magazine’s “Fashion Gives Back” benefit last night. While rapper Eve was seen at the Van Kleef & Arpels French inspired theme party at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Pics from all the events can be seen on the next page with more added to our gallery.
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To celebrate the influence of Blacks on the global fashion scene, Ebony will pay tribute to all things Black and beautiful in the September edition of their magazine. Fifty pages will be dedicated to Black fashion designers, models and trend setters who have helped shape the world of fashion as we know it. Tyra and the above ladies will also chronicle how they went from everyday runway models to entrepreneurs running million dollar companies. Look for the issue to hit newsstands August 13th with models Tyra Banks, Alek Wek, Iman and Kimora Lee Simmons on the cover.
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Poor Beyonce. First the sista is sued by British singer Des’ree for copyright infringement and then the poor girl is photographed out in public wearing the ugliest orange lipstick known to man. Now I can’t help but wonder if that isn’t some KLS lipstick Kimora passed on to Beyonce after the Knicks game a few nights ago. She was seen spritzing Bey so whose to say she didn’t slide our sista some of her cheap orange and pink make-up that just doesn’t look good on Black girl skin. And judging from Beyonce’s poor choice in make-up these days, maybe someone should hip her to Iman Cosmetics. Now that is a line of make-up you can’t go wrong with.

At New York City’s trendy Coffee Shop restaurant—where model-esque servers sashay between tables and smartly-attired diners sip midday cocktails—Yaya DaCosta is in control.

“I don’t want to focus too much on the show,” begins the young model/ actress, just minutes after slipping her slight 5′ 8″ frame into a booth and ordering a caipirinha, a drink she fell in love with when she studied abroad in Brazil. “I’m grateful for it,” she continues carefully, “but it’s just that it happened over a year ago and there’s other stuff going on.”
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