Beyonce had Liposuction?

Well, the kids over at cityrag seem to think so...well, Sloane, you know I am all for the plastic surgery, as long as it's subtle...I can't say that her stomach screams lipo to me, but I am more of an expert at nose jobs and face lift spotting...so go on over to cityrag and judge for yourself...

The Daily Sublime: Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah cleans up well, non? When she is not knocking about on the Harley, she transforms herself into quite the fashion denizen. LOVE the cut and fit of the suit...which goes to my point about the importance of undergarments and tailoring, fashion rules #2 and #3....#1 being dress for YOUR body.

Salivating....

I have a new love. His name is Etro.

Speaking of Closets....

Just wondering what she did this past weekend...Pride maybe?

Jay-Z and Larry Johnson share an apartment?

Mmmmm, some very weird information from bossip.com...apparently, Jay "co-owns" an apartment in one of the Trump buildings with football player Larry Johnson. It is not his main apartment at the Time Warner Center, but another where building personal say that Beyonce never visits. And, apparently Jay has this very weird control over Larry, "cussing him out" for appearing in a Fantasia video, giving him Rocawear clothes, and letting him wear his Rocafella chain.........

Yea, I don't quite know what to make of this either. And, what is interesting to me is that many many years ago there was quite a buzz about Jay-Z being the "gay rapper" a la Wendy Williams....that is until he started dating Beyonce. Please go to bossip and read some of Larry's quotes.... I smell smoke, you?

The Definition of "Taupe"

My favorite blog for quite some time has been Laineygossip.com, its a bit of reading but well worth it for some PHD level gossip. So anyway, my Lainey coined the term "taupe" and I have ran wild with it, because there is just so much taupe in the world. What is taupe besides a generic wall color? Well a bland ass person. Taupe is common, a person you have met a million times to the point that they just blend in with the walls. Taupe are the sheep I am always talking about who just blindly herd in line from one pasture to the next. Jennifer Garner is one of my examples of a taupe woman...who is dying to meet Jennifer Garner really? Or have you met her so many times the conversation is not even necessary?

Then we have Babyface's former wife and Eddie's latest beard girlfriend, Tracey Edmonds. Sigh, do you see what I mean about taupe? If you look at her do you even really notice her? Or is it just a woman in a dress...as mesmerizing as taupe paint on a wall.

Back to My Point About Beyonce and High Fashion

These leggings that Beyonce wore on the BET Awards are Balenciaga. No, Sloane, they are not a Tina Knowles creation or from a local Rave or Forever 21...When I saw the leggings, I immediately thought back to the Paris shows and the android leggings from Mr. Ghesquière's runway, but I thought, no, those look like a bad knock-off....a costume sewn up for the occasion. When I tell you these made my heart swoon back in September. They are so funky and futuristic, but I will admit they are conceptual fashion to me, even if I could afford them I doubt that I would have the balls to wear them. So, I give her props for trying -- attempting -- to pull off the look. And yes it is a costume so we can't be too mad, but do you see what I mean about how she takes these high-end, conceptual frocks and makes them look so run of the mill and down right cheesy? You may hate my Posh, but I bet you Vickie could pull these off in a much more chic fashion...

This was Probably ALL Posh's Idea!

There are just some things in life that should stay resting in peace, the Spice Girls being one of them. Here is the lot in London announcing their 11-week tour which will kick off in December. They all look terrible and no Chase, not even your Posh can be saved here from scorn, Christ who wears pleather in the summertime??? Mel B I highly suggest now that your baby daddy drama has come to a head that you enroll in Jenny Craig and take your ass to the gym to tone that body. Mel B should do a group class with Geri and Emma.

Chase:

I am assuming that you are acquainted with Brick and Lace, the yardie girls out of Kingston, Jamaica who are now signed to Akon's label Konvict Muzik. If Akon has his way they will be the next Destiny's Child, but from the looks of it these girls have a ways to go- they could start off with a stylist. Here they are last night at the BET Awards.

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What's Tameka Foster's Secret Potion?

Chase:

Do you recall our discussion about Usher's fiancee Tameka Foster? I knew it from the start that when she came on the scene she was up to no good. See I was puzzled as to how this unattractive, slightly overweight chic could bag a guy like Usher. Not as if Usher is on my top 10 list, but still, to some he was considered an eligible bachelor. He has tons of loot and could get any girl he wanted and so it was perplexing to me how he could turn around and bag a Lenox Square Mall-looking-chic like Tameka. Anyways a year and a half has passed, Usher puts on a ton or weight and then these two get engaged. Well the latest out of the camp is that Ms. Tameka is expecting a baby for Mr."You Make Me Wanna." Seems like a set up to me. THIS WILL BE TAMEKA'S 4TH CHILD!!!!! I don't know what concoction this girl put in Usher's Cristal, but she certainly has some magic trick that she needs to share with all the other Atl. looking ho's out there. I can only pray that Usher has a good prenup.

Sloane

Did you know Alice Walker and Tracy Chapman dated?

First, our friend Mister is to blame for this quote and the unfortunate imagery that goes along with it...to think of Alice Walker and Tracy Chapman together sexually, oh my god, throwing up in my hand. Am I the only one who is smelling moth balls and egyptian musk in the air?

"[the relationship] was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was not anybody's business but ours." - Alice Walker on her relationship with Tracy Chapman

BET Awards: Almost forgot about Jennifer...

Sloane you called it, LOVE this dress...one of my favs overall, but of course the highlight - I caught it on youtube was her performance with Jennifer Holiday. OH.MY.GOD. Jennifer Holiday KILLED IT, that bitch really knew this was her last chance and she went to town on that song...it just gave me shivers...you must check out the performance...

The Daily Sublime: Tracee Ellis Ross

Ok, we know that my Tracee has to keep those eyeballs in check...but the dress...the dress is TO DIE FOR....she made my evening with this dress...and the shoes...love it all...

BET Awards: Kelly Performs

Since I put Beyonce on blast, I must put Kelly up right next to her...what is this outfit? I swear if someone doesn't keep that Tina in Houston....

BET Awards: Ciara

Did you see her performance? I actually turned the channel as she took the stage...why did she talk through the entire song? She was talk-singing if you know what I mean. Of course she danced her ass off, of course, but I did grimace at a few of those horse "like a boys..."

P.S. I know the Janet Jackson comparisons are obvious, but in this picture and on that stage she really made me look twice.

BET Awards: Lauren London

I like this girl Lauren London...the outfit is cute, but just cute, no what I mean? On a 16 year old I would love it, but how old is this girl? Anyway, pixie dressing and all, I say thumbs up to Lauren. We need a new cute black girl next door type to take over Nia Long's thrown...I nominate Lauren...

The Rundown: BET Awards

So I missed most of the show, forgot it was tonight and instead was catching up on Entourage (how cute is my Vince, btw?)...just caught some highlights -- I MUST see Jennifer Holiday vs. Jennifer Hudson...and of course my Diana swinging that wig to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Now on to the fashion...Rihanna was definitely my runner up for best look of the night. She looks amazing, although the shoes are throwing me off, not sure why...Then there was Kelly, whose dress I didn't mind but it was such a predictable look for her...
Then there was Ms. Beyonce....Sloane why do I even bother caring? Yet again she manages to cheapen the hell out of some couture...I LOVE the dress, honestly it is gorgeous, can't you see Naomi Campbell or Cate Blanchett wearing the hell out of this dress? But on Beyonce it is predictable (you have to tear that girl away from some metallics) and looks like something her mother whipped up over the weekend...

The BET Awards: Beyonce performs

I am simply dumbfounded...I missed the performance from tonight's award show, so perhaps you can explain this to me? There must be a story behind it, just must be...

UPDATE: Okay just got an email, she was a robot or something...fine there is an explanation...but really is that a good enough explanation? And, in how many configurations is Beyonce going to wear this sparkle bra top and bottoms? She must have a warehouse full of these things dating back to '95.

Is this for real?

Sloane dear, do you remember these Steve Madden treasures from like 10 years ago? I remember them well, had a pair that I rocked hard throughout the summer of '97 and even a bit in '98 - I know the shame. But they were hot THEN. And to my dismay and bewilderment, these shoes somehow are making a comeback on fashion challenged feet throughout NYC. When I tell you I have seen these so often that I decided to google them, just to figure out WHERE THE HELL WOMEN ARE FINDING THEM?!?! My first assumption was that bitches had stockpiled these things in '97 because I certainly have not seen them for sale at any shoe store I frequent. But upon my google trip I see that they are actually for sale on stevemadden.com under his "classics" section. Sigh. Why do retailers do this to women? Don't they know how many sheep there are out there who will welcome the return of their old faithfuls? I am just saddened by the news, do I have a summer full of these things to look forward to? Please protect me from this horror!!!

The Daily WTF?!?!?

Um, have you heard about this hood movie that Karl Lagerfeld is going to executive produce starring Keyshia Cole and Fabolous?!? Does my other love ALT have something to do with this? Now what gets me is that the movie of course follows the SAME DAMN PLOT AS EVERY OTHER DAMN "HOOD" MOVIE. Take a guess...exactly, black boy in the hood (Fabolous) has drug addicted mother (of course) and winds up involoved in the street life (of course) BUT could the love of his hood chic (Keyshia Cole) and the promise of a better life save him? Hmmmm. Wonder what will happen? I wage $5 that just as he wants and tries to turn his life around...just as he can see the light outside of the ghetto...his ass is shot and killed. Ok, Karl just lost some points with me...can you believe?

She's Free!

Chase:

An observation about Paris Hilton at the time of her release: she looks so much prettier without make-up, don't you think? Now the real question is where did she get those clothes from? I thought that whatever you came in wearing is what you left wearing, I could be wrong though. Also, how the hell did her weave last so long? Her hair looked good for not being attended to fo so many weeks- the brown roots actually give her a softer look.

Viva Paris!

Scientology is Devil Worship?

I just read the creepiest article about Scientology on Perez...now of course Scientology has so much secrecy about it's true beliefs. I am sure you read that eery Rolling Stone article on the "religion" and how the majority of Scientologists do not even know the core beliefs.

"L. Ron Hubbard was a known student of the infamous Satanist, Aleister Crowley, who actually wrote instructions for human sacrifices in his book Magick: In Theory and Practice."

"Sometimes I find it hard not to laugh at how silly Scientology is, but it’s really a serious satanic cult, and is deceiving lower level members as to the organization’s real motives and beliefs. Scientology is a secret society, similar to other occult hierarchies such as the Freemasons, Skull and Bones.”

CHILLS. CHILLS. CHILLS. Do you know how powerful the church is getting? How much money it has? How eagerly it has been recruiting people - even in the NYC subway. The religions growing lock on Hollywood - let's not forget Tom Cruise's mega buck deal with United Artist pictures...aren't movies a nice way to spread its message? How crafty, millions of mind-numbed low level Scientologists ready to follow it's cult leaders to the ends of the earth. And, let's not even start the discussion of how powerful the Freemasons and Skull & Bones are (George W. Bush anyone?). I guess the devil is gathering its troops for the last days...I am telling you time to get in shape for Armageddon son.

Summer Faux Bag Supply at Risk!

This just in Sloane, just got an alert from WWD the feds busted a $700 million counterfeit merchandise ring from - surprise of all surprises - China. Twenty-nine people were charged with trying to ship in the merchandise, including "Nike sneakers, North Face jackets, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel and Fendi handbags, and True Religion jeans, was said to have entered the country through ports at Newark, N.J.; Houston; Long Beach, Calif.; the New York Container Terminal in Staten Island, N.Y., and John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.Y. "

Damn there are some Brooklyn girls PISSED right now...well, if the Chinese are dry I am sure the Africans will do there best to hold up the rear.

The Countdown

Chase:

No comment about me being MIA. As you know there is still no access to the Internet in the third world, so yeah, I couldn't blog. Anyways I am back and I am counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until Paris Hilton's release from jail. Apart from the media frenzy that will be ignited tomorrow (makes for good TV and lots of blog surfing) what I am most looking forward to is Paris' Larry King interview on Wednesday night.

I can't wait to get a taste of Paris' psyche- has she changed or is it all an act? What kind of soft ball questions will Larry King ask for an entire hour (well around 40 mins give or take with commercials)? What will she wear? Certainly she will not be going for the dumb blonde look- don't you remember her comments in the first week of jail when she said to Babs Walters that she is through with being dumb.

I can't wait!

Back from L.A.!

Hey Sloane, I am back...landed last night with Kelly Rowland in tow. Haha, she was on my plane - in first class of course. She entered the boarding area at LAX with 5 inch heels, skinny jeans and a white tank, chloe bag in hand. I must say she has the highest quality weave hair I have seen in a minute. Perhaps I am just so used to the weave on the uptown D train that I don't have a proper comparison point - but it was shiny and lovely. She is pretty but a very I have seen you a million times in a million malls kind of face. But the joke of the day was that as she luxuriated in first class, her two cling-ons were relegated to business class. Haha, and while they waited at Kennedy for the luggage with the plebeians, Ms. Kelly was whisked away in her waiting car. LOVES IT. I need a p.a. to tend to my luggage, mmm, in fact I want to travel with no luggage at all - with homes in each city, why would I need to bring anything?

The Daily Sublime: J-Lo in White

J-Lo is just so f-ing fly...even with a bit of a wedgie she is still sublime.

The Shorts Craze and Wedgies

This is my thing about the new shorts craze - wedgies. J-Lo who has an amazing body, toned legs and as we can see a big ass wedgie. Your outfit starts out so cute...at home...then after a block of walking you are pulling your slowly rising shorts down from between your legs. Look at my J-Lo, the outfit is cute but then the wedgie just puts a bit of a damper on things.

Princess Fiona and Shrek...

Do you read Crunk & Disorderly? The girl who writes always makes up these names for celebrities, for instance she calls Aretha Franklin "Ri Ri The Body"... Anyway, her latest is Princess Fiona and Shrek for Jay-Z and Beyonce...I DIED OF LAUGHTER. That is just too perfect...

Beyaki and Jay-Z were snapped by the 'razzi on their yacht, which is now anchored in Portofino on the Italian Riviera. Excuse me if I'm a little choked up, Princess Fiona and Shrek's love for each other always leaves me with tears streaming down my face.

Demi Moore is my plastic surgery hero

So, let me say flat out I believe in plastic surgery with one major caveat; it MUST must must be subtle. Demi Moore is my poster girl for the kind of plastic surgery I am talking about. The woman looks so fresh and young without being totally pulled and stretched within an inch of her life. I don't know who her surgeon or surgeons are but they deserve a prize for their work, seriously. For a white woman of her age to look this good? Yes I said it - for a white woman, dammit.

My other subtle plastic surgery poster girl is none other than.....drum roll please...Kelly Rowland. The work she has done to herself is so inconspicuous and so well done, most people do not even realize she has had work. But let's think back to D-Child's early years...the bulbous nose, the bottom lip that would never quite make it up to meet the top lip...come on, you know you have thought how improved she looks...as if it were age or a new hair style. This is the magic of a good plastic surgeon...pure magic people.

OH, and Nicole Ritchie! That nose job she had during the time she lost all the weight -- it changed her entire face, for the better.

The Daily Sublime: Posh in Transit

F-ING FAB...the bag alone wins the day!

Yes or No: The Man Bag

I vote Yes to man bags within reason. A nice sporty/masculine - stress on masculine - bag is practical, especially in a place like NYC where you are on foot and have to lug things around. Now, Pharell is just taking it too far, an orange Birkin?!?!? No sir. Unless his girlfriend is behind him with her hands full, I just can not support. Now if his boyfriend is walking behind him with empty hands, well that is a different story.

And p.s., half of me is just hating because dammit my arm deserves that Birkin attached to it!

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The Daily WTF?!?!?!?

Spotted over @ Dlisted...first have to give some Boriqua love to all my PR people...this is what my mother calls her culture's "flare", lol. Personally, I blame it on people being sequestered in the Bronx, I am telling you that borough just does things to people's minds.

Where's waldo?

The Daily Sublime: Rihanna...again

She had me at the leopard print heels, why am I such a sucker for a good animal print shoe???

He Loves Her Not...

Who is Jill Scott? really had to have some of the best love songs of our generation...really, she re-invented the love song in a way, don't you think? Well the love, scuse me, the LOVE that inspired that album is over. Jill Scott and her husband Lyzel the man who loved her so well she made song after song after song about that dizzying emotion - are getting divorced. Yes, Sloane, yes. Here is to hoping that Jill will now become a more well rounded artist, and make some dark, foreboding, angry music. I must tell you that is my petpeeve with Jilly from Philly, she is too damn happy all the time. I have long since cried "BITCH YOU NEVER GET MAD AT THAT NIGGA?!?!?!?" Sorry for the language, but really as we see by the divorce, it was not all good. Well, it is a sad day in black love...

And P.S, how f-d up am I that when I saw the picture above I thought, "well if she would get her hair out of those braids and put on some real clothing maybe it wouldnt be divorce"? but then again the negro is wearing PLEATED pants, so it was probably Jill that told him to STEP.

A David Beckham Moment...

Just for your Monday morning blahs....will you look at this man? LOOK AT HIM. Damn, just damn. And CONGRATULATIONS are in order, he lead his team Real Madrid to the title last night in his final game in the European League. Next stop for the Hotness is L.A.....unless England whispers the right price in his ear ....stay tuned.Becks last night with his three mini-me's, aaaaawwwww...

Its a Baby Z & Shiloh Spotting...

How cute are Baby Z and little Shiloh. Did I ever tell you that for years Shiloh was on my list of baby names? I was a bit taken aback and then p-o'd when Brangelina used my name, because of course now, if I were to name my son - yes it would be a son - Shiloh, I'll hear "like Brad & Angie's daughter"......And you KNOW I just do not have the patience to deal with such nonsense...

Even La Posh Must Deal with TSA

Image via JustJared

The Daily WTF?!?!?

Someone, please save Tyra from herself...

Say What Jessica Alba?

I must tell you that I have never been particularly impressed by Jessica Alba. But, have you read some of the choice quotes that Perez dug up from her?

"[Before] I always felt like such an outcast and now I feel like people are more diverse ethnically. I was always self conscience of my puffy lips and darker skin when I was a kid, because I felt like I didn't fit in. And now its mainstream, and color isn't as big of a deal and if anything its better."

"Alba is my last name and I'm proud of that. But that's it. My grandparents were born in California, the same as my parents, and though I may be proud of my last name, I'm American. Throughout my whole life, I've never felt connected connected to one particular race or heritage, nor did I feel accepted by any. If you break it down, I'm less Latina than Cameron Diaz, whose father is Cuban. But people don't call her Latina because she's blonde."

"George Lopez starts speaking to my father in Spanish, and my dad says, 'I don't speak Mexican.' I turned purple. I love my papa. But he has no filter. I probably acquired that characteristic from him."

Wow....to read the diaries of a white girl stuck in a brown girl's body...the frustration! Now, her comment on Cameron Diaz have some truth to it, lets be real. You never hear Cameron referred to as a Latina actress...ever. Not that Cammy is clamouring for the moniker. Jessica just wants you to know she is just a misunderstood white girl....her brown skin is the misunderstanding dammit!

Can you believe...

...I got forwarded an invite to a Charm School finale party? Now as much as that show gives me pure entertainment, I would worry for the guest list...I mean who goes to a Charm School party and at a CLUB!!!! And, did I tell you that Charm School is the #1 show in Black households???? When I tell you my disappointment at myself for loving it is even deeper than my disappointment in my race......I can't even be mad....

What is Angelina's hair doing?

You know I adore me some Brangelina, but I swear Angelina tests my patience some times with her fashion choices, and yes I consider hair apart of fashion. Please take a look at her hair for yesterday's premier of A Mighty Heart in NYC. Is she getting ready to embark on a journey across the prairie to make a homestead for her family in the Great Plains?

And P.S. the girl is so skinny, this up-do just brings more attention to the disproportionate size of her head as compared to her body. I just look and feel sympathey for her neck and all that it has to endure.

P.P.S. Is it just me or is Brad looking more and more plastic as the days go on? No one can tell me that Brad doesn't hit the botox/collagen/restylane hard.

The Daily Sublime: Dammit it's Cameron Diaz AGAIN

Do you know how well honed my dislike of Cameron Diaz was? Yes WAS....hence why I am so disturbed by how much I like her style these days. I mean one sublime outfit after another. She looks amazing in this frock, and what I like best is that its almost a "fuck you" because there are like 2 other women who could pull this tight, column, faux-sheer number off. And do you know who is behind her new style? Non other than ubiquitous stylist Rachel Zoe. What is going on with the world? Will Jennifer Garner's taupe ass become my next fashion idol?!?!?!? No, I don't think that will ever happen unless I become enamored with crocs, khakis and LL Bean catalog finds.

Ah, my Posh is back to old form

Do not tell me she doesn't look chic....and after coming off a plane! Who else but my Posh would make JFK airport her fashion runway?