One of our fave ladies Melody Ehsani gets love from Life+Times in a feature written by no less than the amazing Dream Hampton:

Melody Ehsani is as beautiful as anything she’s ever created. She experiments with fashion and makeup in ways that anticipate trends (she shaved one side of her head about five years before Cassie) and her presence single-handedly transforms a room she enters. Still, she’s soulful and her jewelry, worn by music’s biggest trendsetters, always seems to carry a story or history, or even humor (see the enamel “I’m Fly” jet plane ring). She’s intentional in every way, she holds a direct gaze and is generous and disciplined about keeping her word. Melody’s drive and focus have given her brand cache. And she’s just beginning…

Read the complete interview here.

Checking out the NY Fashion week reviews over at Style (which, btw, takes waaaay to long to load!) this morn, I noticed that Zac Posen got salamied by whoever reviewed his show. I didn’t think it was THAT bad, but oh well, points to the writer for giving her honest opinion. There’s so much fawning in this business, it’s nice when people express something less than positive. Anyway, my fave part of Zac’s show? The purple lipstick and earrings. Not a whole lot of people who can pull that look off, but against this model’s dark skin it looks pretty striking. But I don’t care what color your skin is, if your over 25 and not drop-dead gorgeous this look probably aint gonna work for ya.

^^Bringing the dangly and purply without fear…

A pretty as a posie one-piece bathing suit on the other side….

I am embarrassed that I only just found out about this chick and that’s ’cause I spotted her on PerezHilton yesterday. And that’s doubly fucked up because while looking for this video I discovered that she backs Nas on his God’s Son “Heaven” song, which I only listened to, oh like 18 billion times when it first came out. So I’m like, why oh why didn’t I dig a little to find out who was the amazing female voice in that song??? (And on another note, that is what is so damn extra about Nasir Jones–no he doesn’t produce endless product, but the songs he does create are intricate and deep and keep unfolding themselves, and looong after they are released, you can go back, listen and go, “Oh wow…I didn’t hear that the first go round.)

Anyway, the name of this song is “Seven Day Fool,” and the reason that it matters that Ms. Black is singing it is ’cause you only have to look in this female’s eyes for two seconds to know that life has tricked her more times than her broken hard dares to admit and thus she truely is NOBODY’S fool, but you know how it goes, a girl can dream, can’t she? 

This past week we came across a new site with a very interesting concept in music – Awdio. To sum it up, through their service you can listen to music being played in shops, clubs, bars, fashion hotels, restaurants in real time.

“While online music startups and most labels are trying to figure new rules for their business models, a small UK based startup has found a smart way to answer that question. Nearly all music services are based on providing access to a catalogue of recorded music whether it is on demand (eg: iTunes or Deezer) or on discovery mode (Pandora/Last.fm). But a big chunk of the quality music is not recorded and is played live is in clubs, fashion hotels, restaurants, shops, DJ festivals and other cool places (i leave aside radio music). This music usually ends up in CD collections because of its quality and uniqueness (think of the Buddha Bar collection, the Cafe del Mar and many more). And this is the music Awdio

Awdio™ revolutionizes the way you listen to music! Real Time Music! What everyone can get now in one weekend is what music addicts would get in a year, touring around world’s best Live music sources… Straight from the sound systems of the most respected clubs, venues, hotels, shops, studios & festivals… from Electronic Music to Hip Hop, from new Jazz scenes to alternative Rock, from Lounge sessions to the most underground Dj sets, wherever you are, whatever you like, Awdio™ provides pure Live music. From San Francisco to Melbourne, New York to Paris, Sao Paulo to Hong Kong, Awdio™ is streaming 24/7 real time music content, from and on worldwide time zones.

Awdio spots the coolest places around the globe where live music is played and makes exclusive agreement to distribute and stream it live in real time. They gathered so far 50 hotspots like the super trendy Colette Shop in Paris, the 1015 in San Francisco or the Favela in London. They have created a technology that enables any live music source to be streamed over the internet with high quality sound.” Via Techcrunch.

A great concept. Instead of listening to specific songs, you can choose the environment/place where you know music that you enjoy is being played. Seeing Colette in the mix also totally makes sense! It will be interesting to see where they go with the concept and if they add video any time soon!

New from INSALAND the all over print thong leotard. Available in HYPE Yellow, KA-CHING Green and UNREAL Orange. There is no set release date yet, but for the girls that are fans of Insa or missed out on the last MOB bikini, this might be something worth checking out!