Category Archives: MAG SCANS/COVERS

MAG COVER: DRAKE GETS SHARP FOR ‘GQ’ + B.T.S. VIDEO

A dapper Aubrey “Drake” Graham posed in one of the three covers of ‘GQ’ magazine. In the April 2012 “Style Bible” issue, the oh-so-polished rapper talked about a couple things like how the rap game has evolved, his relationship with his father and how difficult it is for him to find musical inspiration now that his life has changed:

I’m trying to find the same feelings that I had for women when I had very little going on, which is tough. When I was in my mom’s house, I had nowhere to go, no real obligations. My girlfriend at the time, if she was mad at me, my day was all fucked-up. I didn’t have anything else. And that made for some of the best music, I think, to date. Records where I felt small. That feeling is hard to capture when you’re sitting out here in a space like this. It’s really difficult for me to find something that makes me feel small.”

Definitely feelin’ his style in the pics below. What do you all think?

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MAG COVER: ESTELLE TALKS BREAK UP, BEAUTY & NEW MUSIC IN ‘VIBE VIXEN’

Check out the Vibe Vixen cover with singer/songwriter Estelle. The UK native talks everything for her recent breakup, her love for shoes and her beauty regiment. Check out the full interview at VIBEVIXEN.COM.

In related news, Estelle recently finished up her North American tour in support of her latest album, All Of Me. The European leg of the tour starts next month.

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MAG COVERS: CEE LO GREEN TALKS MAINSTREAM SUCCESS IN ‘JET’

Cee Lo Green covers the latest issue of JET (available March 12). The soulful musician and The Voice judge earned $20 million last year, thanks in part to the success of “F**k You”, which Cee Lo says is completely ironic in the cover story, “Green Machine”: Continue

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FASHION: OFFENSIVE OR NOT? JOAN SMALLS, FIRST BLACK MODEL TO COVER ‘VOGUE ITALIA’ IN FOUR YEARS, FEATURED IN ‘HAUTE MESS’ EDITORIAL

Here we go again. From the same magazine that declared ‘slave earrings‘ as an it trend to shop (they described the oversized hoops as ‘decorative traditions of the women of colour who were brought to the southern Unites States during the late 18th century’), and also the same fashion mag that had that all black issue four years ago, comes the March 2012 issue of Vogue Italia, featuring a questionable editorial entitled Haute Mess.

The mag features Puerto Rican beauty, and self identified black latina, model Joan Smalls on its cover.

Simply titled #OVERTHETOP, Joan is featured on the cover wearing excessive makeup, excessive nail art, excessive earrings, and although the Vogue title covers it, excessive hair, too.

The first time the magazine features a black model on its cover in four years, and it’s for this issue. When it comes to being active player in the modeling game though, landing a cover is landing a cover, I guess.

Across thirty-two pages, American photographer Steven Meisel captures some of the industry’s current top models wearing some of the top fashion pieces of the season.

Though you’d be hard pressed to find any of that designer gear beneath the over the top nails, hair, and makeup.

I’m sure you’ve seen the pics all over your Tumblr dashboard at some point or another. The woman who turned her hair into an Easter basket, complete with grass, and plastic eggs, she’s featured in the editorial, reinterpreted by model Lindsey Wixon:
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