INSIDE FASHION WEEK: Up & Coming YBF Designer Shauntele OPENS UP About Femininity, Her Modern Style AND Dressing Royalty

In part 2 of our 3-part New York Fashion Week focus on the up and coming YBF fashion designers, we chatted with an uber fabulous YBF chick you need to know about. TheYBF.com talked to Shauntele, an designer who focuses on beautiful clothes for women of all sizes. And she's already dressed well-heeled socialites like Ivanka Trump.

Come inside to meet Shauntele...

 

Shauntele, The Shauntele Woman

Describing her design house consumer as "The Shauntele Woman," Brooklyn-native Shauntele has created a brand for women who are powerful and feminine.  With her design house known for its wide span of beautiful colors and textures, the range of size 0-18 garments, and pieces for women who need to have an array of ready-to-wear cocktail dress & casual business attire.

Her highly tailored garments have impressed a wide spectrum of women, including royalty.   Princess Amira of Saudi Arabia is a fan, as is socialite and business woman Ivanka Trump (Shauntele was her classmate at the exclusive boarding school, Choate Rosemary Hall!).  Here's a recap from our quick chat with her:

-On "The Shauntele Woman"

"The Shauntele Woman is feminine and powerful. She knows that you have to look great no matter where you are…it's part of our power as women." She also adds that The Shauntele Woman is one who buys beautifully made garments that she'll "one day she will pay onto her daughter" because they are timeless.

-On her 2012 collection

"My collection strives to make womenswear that is classic and interesting. I focus on classics shapes and use a wide array of colors to make them modern.  It's about finding ways to accentuate the female frame and make beautiful clothes that reach out to a wide range of women."

On her experience at Fashion Week

She made her first showing in 2008 with 10 pieces.  After the collection was praise for her use of color, she found the "color" was her strength and at every showing since then, she has made the bold use of color her signature.  She adds that showing at Fashion eek is important for upcoming Black designers to showcase that "we" do exist and to serve as an inspiration to the next generation.

- On what inspires her

"Music is what inspires me."  Shauntele (who had recorded music with Soul II Soul) says that "sounds" motivates her sketches.  She turns to everything from classic reggae to underground hip hop and R&B to find inspiration.  She adds that this year's collection was inspired by the music of Little Dragon, a Swedish electronic band.

-On celebrities she'd love to design for

Kerry Washington and Scarlett Johansson are my top two. 

- On making any outfit fabulous

"You can make any outfit fabulous by adding a smile...but I also believe in a good heel!" 

Check out more of Shauntele over at her website and see some of her previous designs in the photo gallery.

Source: http://theybf.com/2011/09/15/inside-fashion-week-up-coming-ybf-designer-shauntele-opens-up-about-femininity-her-modern

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Coldplay, Led Zeppelin Album Covers Featured On New British Stamps

Album art from Pink Floyd, Blur and David Bowie also included.
By James Montgomery


Coldplay's new British stamps
Photo: Royal Mail

On Thursday (January 7), the U.K.'s Royal Mail unveiled a series of 10 new stamps, honoring the most iconic album covers of the past 40 years.

The albums featured in the new series are the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed, Led Zeppelin's IV, David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, The Clash's London Calling, New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, Primal Scream's Screamadelica, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, Blur's Parklife and — the most recent album on to make the cut — Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head.

Meant to honor "the most potent graphic images of modern times, many of which have provided a visual soundtrack to people's lives," the series is the end result of a lengthy research process by the Royal Mail, who looked through thousands of album covers by British artists before deciding on the final list. And, during a Wednesday night BBC Radio broadcast, it was revealed that the queen herself actually approved each design.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page — who helped design the cover for IV — was on hand to celebrate the release of the stamps and recalled the mysterious nature of the album's iconic imagery.

"Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him," he said. "That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."

Of course, any great honor is befitting of an equally great contest, so, on the same day the stamps were made available to the general public, Coldplay decided to give one of their Rush of Blood stamps away. In a message on their official site, the band held a contest to send one lucky fan "a letter using a Coldplay stamp, postmarked with today's issue date."

"We visited our local post office earlier today and bought some of the Coldplay stamps," the message read. "Very nice they are too."

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12 Ways To Impress Joe Manganiello, Now That He Is Single

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Joe Manganiello made us swoon earlier this year when he said of his fiance, Audra Marie, "I always dreamed of finding someone who is beautiful and sweet, equal parts. And I did." But sadly, the couple has split. Sources say the problem was that Joe was hesitating in picking a wedding date while Audra had already bought a dress, picked her bridesmaids, and started registering for gifts. Joe once said in an interview with Women's Health that he takes breakups very seriously. "Once you're a pickle, you can't turn back into a cucumber," he explained. "People just keep bouncing off their exes and wasting each other's time. If you go back, you'll be dealing with the same stuff that drove you apart in the first place." So, we're guessing it is totally over.

This is sad, but because Joe is one of the most desirable dudes in Tinseltown, it's great news for the rest of female kind. Now we all have a chance! After the jump, some ways to impress Joe, should you ever meet him.

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Lady Gaga, Bono, Usher To Headline Bill Clinton Foundation Fundraiser

October 15 show will be streamed live over the Internet.
By Gil Kaufman


Lady Gaga
Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Even a dozen years removed from the White House, former president Bill Clinton still has that same superstar-attracting aura. That might explain why such bright lights as Lady Gaga, Bono and The Edge of U2, and Usher have signed on to perform at an October 15 party for Clinton at the Hollywood Bowl.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, details on the final list of performers and presenters are still being worked on, but an impressive list of movie and TV personalities are expected to sign on for the event, which is being billed as a celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Clinton's nonprofit William J. Clinton Foundation.

To date, the foundation has raised more than $10 billion for some of the ex-president's most cherished causes, including HIV/AIDS treatment, economic empowerment, food aid and global health initiatives. The show, which will also serve as a birthday party celebration for the former Democratic leader (who turned 65 on August 19), will be broadcast exclusively by Yahoo, which will stream "A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation" worldwide to a potential audience of millions.

Clinton continues to travel the world doing good works, though he turned his attention homeward over the weekend when he participated in the 10th anniversary ceremonies of the September 11 terror attacks. He announced on Sunday that he will team with Republican House Speaker John Boehner in a bipartisan effort to raise the final $10 million needed to complete the Fight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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