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    (NY) Emily King

    Emily King New York Music Sensation
    So who is Emily King?

    Emily King is the biracial daughter of accomplished jazz singers/composers Marion Cowings and Kim Kalesti. Due to their similar backgrounds, King is compared sometimes to the singer Alicia Keys.
    Her debut album, East Side Story 2007; it gets it’s title gets it’s from New York City’s Lower East Side, where King was raised.
    “I’ve been singing since I was a young kid,” she said, going on to state that despite both her parents being singers, she wasn’t pressured to follow in their footsteps as a vocalist. “I just always kind of knew. Something in my heart said that’s going to be it.”

    I got to see her sensational performances at Rockwood Music Hall.. Check out the cutie on the keyboards…. what!  Just when I thought I was over music guys.. swoons..

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    Hermes x Skateboard

    Hermes launched their viral campaign!  I swear I was sitting on your L shape couch, toeing your shaggy rug talking about this!  It’s so weird to have foresight sometimes. When you find a creative counterpart, when you find someone who is just ABOUT what they are ABOUT they way you are about what you are about, magic will happen. No doubt about it.  Do you think it will go viral? Do you think it’s a good step towards new media? What’s next?

    56,104 views in 3 days? Not that viral yet…

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    (NY) Max Brenner

    Last weekend, my girl Teo took me to Max Brenner aka Chocolate heaven of New York City. With hour long line ups and a fully stacked chocolate menu… this is amazing!  I had the Choco-pops hot chocolate and it was simply delish.  I can’t wait to go back for more hot chocolate…it is served in a ‘hugmug’ with no handles and you have to cup it in your hands! So sweet right?

    When you are this awesome, your face goes on the napkin!

     Oh ya. there is even chocolate pizza! So if you want to indulge a little bit and find out more… Yelp it

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    JRDN Can Have US All

    I love it when I recieve new PR kits for the different things going on in Toronto, it gives me the opportunity to stay fresh, current and in-the-know… The fact that I recieved one for JRDN Music literally while I was in the midst of a pulling together a blog posting on him, proves that everyone NEEDS to know what’s going on with this artist.

    There’s no denying that we love to support talent on the rise… it’s what we do! But, this one sits all the more closer to home. I first heard about JRDN when my girl let me know Cazh was directing the video for his album’s first single “You Can Have it All”. I’ll admit, I’m the worst when it comes to titles and names, but as soon as she started singing and reminding me of the lyrics, I realized I knew EVERY word… how can a woman not notice???
    I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I definately want it all, and his voice leads me to believe that its mine… lol!

    But all dirty talk aside, the track is dope… the video is INSANE… the artist is real! Check him out when he comes to your town on his Canada-wide tour in support of the new album ‘IAMJRDN’ which hit stores this week!

    Cross-Canada Tour Dates

    Nov. 13 – Kool Haus, Toronto w.Danny Fernandes & Bruno Mars
    Nov. 19 – Boss Nightclub, Vancouver
    Nov. 25 – Flames Central, Calgary
    Nov. 26 – Diesel Lounge, Edmonton
    Dec. 4 – Bains Douches, Montreal
    Dec. 19 – Sound Academy, Toronto

    Peep the video below courtesy of Youtube.com.

    Video directed by my girl Cazhhmere, styled by my fam The Bossy Girls.
    Behind the scenes peek courtesy of Stolen From Africa & Youtube.com

    Look for “4 Tha Ghetto” video coming soon, directed by Cazhhmere… teaser below

    courtesy of youtube
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    (NY) CEW The Art of Fragrance

    Went to the Harmonie Club last night to hear about the Art of Fragrance. I was so excited to hear the fragrance trends, innovation and the ‘Nose’ speak about their 20 years of experience in the perfume world.   Calise Becker and Trudi Loren collaborated on 10 fragrances and are great friends who are both CEW members.  Shape Magazine did a poll with their readers and found out that 46% wear 1 favorite signature scent and 54% wear a diverse portfolio of perfumes.

     I am part of the 54% obviously.


    You are never fully dressed until you put on perfume
    Calise: My father is an engineer and my mom is an artist. I was told because I am a woman, not from Grasse and not a daughter of a customer, I could never work in fragrance or go to perfume school. I told the CEO of that company, I am going to be a perfumer with or without you defiantly… and ended up getting hired!  What this industry needs is a perfume with guts.
    Trudi: I come from a biochem and pharma research background. I applied for a job as an analytical chemist, had to do a smell test during my interview… and got to work with fragrance developers, marketing and currently Hermes, Clinique and Bobbi Brown
    Calise: My earliest fragrance memory is when I was 4 years old and my mom spritz me with a fashion cologne with flowers on the bottle… I spent the next 20 years figuring out how those flowers got into that bottle!
    Trudi: I remember my father wearing Pierre Cardin everyday and my mother’s Chanel no.5
    • The most important thing that makes a star fragrance is Memorability (example is Angel by Thierry Mugler)
    • A perfume is created when the imagery of an idea is translated to what it smells like
    • Calise compares perfumery with the art of cooking
    • Trudi says, the economy has caused the consumer to want more: so there is a return to artisan, nice which is the root of the art of perfumery
    • The perfect fragrance comes about like a perfect storm
    • Beauty bloggers and doing a big part in helping education the consumers (yay)
    • there is a huge trend for sustainability platforms and starting with raw materials and building the story around it
    • the industry has become ‘top note’ focused (aka superficial) and need to take the time to appreciate a perfume worn throughout the day and return to the classic structures

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    Why I love Him

    He has to match my fly.  End of story
    when i move, you move. just like that
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