New York City Fashion week is the elite of elites when it comes to fashion. Celebrities flock, designers create
and seamstresses are on their best behaviour.
For an up and coming designer, Fashion Week is where you have to be. The prestigious event is quite open to the public but never forgetting it's posh attitude towards those unknown to the circle of friends.
I strolled down to seventh and 36th street, to get a glimpse of Times Squares' big and tall over the top architecture, and to better view shops and trends this style setting city has to offer for the new 2009 season.
Sale signs everywhere and busy bodies maneuvered, the reality was, Fashion in New York wasat that moment IN Fashion Week.

I entered the loft building of the new-but-not-so-new up and coming designer Neeman Khan. The Indian designer who's blood excudes with fashion, as his family heritage can be traced to his grandfather's native Indian royalty creations. He migrated to the US as a teenager and began to work in the Halston fashion house. In 2003 Mr. Khan introduced his first collection which consisted of embellished beading and embroidery unknown to many in the fashion circle.
As we reach the 10th floor we are greeted with a statuesque group of models, standing on a platform and drapped in some of the most exhilarating fashion gems your eyes can see. About ten models stand in allure, as everyone watches carefully the Fall 2009 Collection of Neeman Khan in front of them. The Jacquard jackets have such reminiscent embroidery and the vibrant but tamed black velvets, golds, and royal blues speak to you of statue and royalty. The fur vests and trims mixed with some fall evening jackets, have hairs so soft they glide with every passing observer. The evening cocktail dresses which accompany this royal collection are draped in jewelled fabrics and aristocratic satins. This first captivating collection was just a mere tease for those who move their way into the loft and get closer to the designers forbidden treasurers, the evening gown collections.



It is of no surprise to learn, Neeman Khan has dressed celebrities like Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and Eva Longoria, but he is the impeccable designer for Princess Aga Khan and Queen Noor of Jordan. Is also not surprising such aristocratic women seek him to drape in layers and layers of some of the world's best hand made fabrics.
The goddess evening dresses are all intricate with crystals and bead work craftsmanship a jeweller will envy. Some drape and other hug the body, but ill all they exhibit glamour and prestige worthy of a princess.
Chiffon and beading, crochet lace and crepe satin all combine in many styles and formulas. If it isn't a one sleeve, is a puckered pencil skirt with matching jewelled crop jacket.
Socialites and fashion figures round up the room and take notes, take pictures or do small talk. They are all taking in the art of design and begin to predict whats next.

Walking out of the show and heading to the after party, gave me a feel of completion. The air from the cold New York wind did not seem so bad because I was in fashion cloud nine and the night was still young. Entering the Empire Fashion Week after party, held by no other then party guru to the stars, Eric Virgil, you feel the trends coming in. If there is any place where one can walk in a button up shirt with matching fitted cap and his friend in a tailored suit, it is in New York City.
The glassy room filled with the young socialite generation of New York, and some of the best party people a gal can ever meet, is remarkably interesting in flavour. Some over the top and some not enough, but all in all, kind people to have around for a good time and celebrate self fashion, self art and self fulfillment, they are what they wear and make a great living doing so.

New York Fashion week was a celebration of one of the most beautiful things in the world, art. Creativity is a rare gift we at times can shy away from and not express, but it is one gift not many carry and for those that do, their should be more freedom of self expression. In fashion there are no limits, if it was limited, designers would not be able to interpret the message we want to express as we fall in love with their clothes and translate our own message as we wear them.
For some fashion may be of a trend and fun, but to those who it is a little bit more than that, New York Fashion week is it's heart. If you are one of those who's heart palpates as fashion passes you by, New york City assures you to never change your style just change your surroundings.

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These days women are fiercely independent and equal to a man in almost every aspect of society, maybe this is why there is the believe that women were made from man. If this is the true case, evidence of women being able to hold their own and serve just as much as man can in the board room or in a household, are true pieces of what powers we behold and how we use them.

Cleveland native, DJ Blazita is a perfect example of how women can achieve all they desire and do it with stride and class at the same time. We speak girlfriend to girlfriend over the phone from her new place called home, Brooklyn, New York. We came from similar eras where Madonna overruled the airwaves and Janet Jackson was every teenagers icon. This is to never leave behind the love we share for hip hop,"When I got into Hip Hop, It was BIG," she exaggerates with the glow I can relate to about the first day I fell in love with the music.....................

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Rain is a symbol of prosperity. When it rains, crops grow, when it doesn't, there is no harvest. Native Americans used to have rain rituals. They always made it rain. The secret was simple: they kept at it until it started to rain. Their devotion would move the heavens. A name of such significance can only result in the riches of one's words. Born in Harlem New York, 26 year old Nyraine is spreading his wings and getting the attention of the masses.
Sitting face to face at the E2K Photoshoot for the reigning widow Liza Rios, I got to explore the man responsible for the new mothers day anthem, "NY's Joy." He carefully picks all his words and speaks as to slowly break down his philosophy and the reason he is poetically correct......................................

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2009 like many years before has had its predictions. Some will quit smoking, others drinking (after the last 5th glass of champagne), diet regimens are set plans as of midnight (right after that last piece of gluten new year’s cake) and new ways to grow on any level in the forth coming year is the most important priority.

On December 31st 2008, Dayton, Ohio’s own artistic genius, Ill Poetic, felt the resolution aura nearing him on that stage where he stood next to Ohio’s creme of the crop, Zone and Illogic.

Backtrack to 2000 when Poetic and Zone transplanted to Cincinnati and became new to the city of Reds. They were new to the city but more importantly new to the hustle hip hop created and students in the game of “making it”.
“I remember reading a article in a Cincinnati Citybeat paper of a local group and thinking, that would be it for me, to be on there…2 years later I was on there, but by then this feature became a validation for a 20 year goal I had.”
He depicts me the story as he reminisces on the Junior high school freestyle battles, which turned to hip hop battles, Eminem himself would be intimidated by. The Cd covers he drew at 9 years old are the visions an new Arrested Development album brought upon him. The picture began to become clear to him. He was the unordinary rapper with no connections to Cameron and Jay Z like his peers around him boosted so lustfully about, all he knew to do was to be that dope white kid who knew how to get down and give the power upon the Mic to make it to his dreams.
At this time, he came to personally discover into his “free floating” sound. A mixed pot of Outkast’s Aquamini with hip hop melodies and guitar drums, sprinkled with a lil J Dilla and Kanye influence.
His unique music appeal and charisma is what caught the attention of Producer J. Rawls, one of the contributors to the classic Talib Kwelib and Mos Def, first Black Star album. Another close colleague Wordsworth, had been traveling overseas to Europe for quiet a while and had been planning another round with some of hip hop’s best.
Ill Poetic had dreamt about traveling to the overseas land of hip hop loyalists, dreams become reality in hip hop. They say one mans failure is another mans gain, a booked rapper was unable to commit to the tour and Ill poetic jumped at the opportunity. He wasn’t going to get paid but he was going to be taken care of. This to him was the best business deal he ever heard of.

There he is on an 11 date tour with Diggin In The Crates OC, Pharoahe Monch and many more hip hop greats. 1200 people in attendance and there are 2 dudes in the audience who came from 2 different countries to see who…. The opener for Pharoahe Monch, Ill Poetic.
He found a fulfillment some of us crave for in this lifetime when he was on stage and his soul stepped outside his body, “There I was on my last date with over 1100 people in front of me and I just shaped a picture with my brain, like, This Is It, the walking to work everyday to save up and buy a vinyl, the eating Ramen noodles to buy a beat to make a song to perform it in Europe in front of these 1100 plus people,” He humbly depicts to me as rationalizing this is the peak he had to view to gain that extra push he needed.
He sold all his CD demos within 3 show dates to loyal hip hop connoisseurs, who to this day flood his MySpace page.



As he humbly returned home from Europe the treatment he received was bitter sweet but not for one minute did he let it affect him, he had his eyes on the prize.
“People don’t know how much further there is to go, not even rappers make it out of rapping, 50Cent makes millions of selling water.” He knew Europe opened the door, but the power of the Internet would help him stay afloat.
“Your never gonna do everything you want with the internet, you can be popular online and it means shit in real life, you still gotta go to open mics, print cd’s and do shows, there’s no such thing as demos anymore”.

Maybe this is why good advice always comes from within. His next step was to set off to NYC to sell himself and hustle for contacts. The 10 blocks he walked while lost up and down Broadway was miniscule compared to the recompense he received when he was able to enlist the notarized publicist to many hip hop heads like Jim Jones. “I didn’t get a publicist to be cool, I got one because I need one.”
He needs one because after being lost during one of New York’s ugliest snow days and still making it to The Source offices, just to introduce himself and be informed by the editor, that he has had a copy of his CD for a while and is in his actual CD collection, I agree with him in needing a publicist too.

Ill Poetic can be classified to many as the oddity but if he weren’t would we really remember him? His drive and sense of humor are what ironically set him apart from what we know as regular, but so did Kanye West when he rapped through a wire, so did Diddy when he pranced around in shinny suits and so did Eminem when he was backed up by Dr. Dre. “I rather keep planting seeds cause the more it grows, im trying to live off this, even if is comic strips, anything artistic, Ill be happy.”

So as he’s on that stage and waves farewell to 2008 with all his comrades to his side, he glimpses out and sees a 18 year old kid in the audience who wants to get a article on Cincinnati's Citybeat just because he saw Ohio’s next star, Ill Poetic on there.

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