Oh, Veronica...

Twenty-Something, Washingtonian, strives for the better things in life, loves fashion, interior design, architecture and intelligence.

[lindsaylohanbr]

[lol-nah-dawg]

[dear-white-people]

premiere night is finally here… please reblog and send us your love.

don’t forget to hashtag #dearwhitepeople and #sundance 

[beyoncegifs]

"I was very aware of the fact that I was showing my body. I was 195 pounds when I gave birth. I lost 65 pounds. I worked crazily to get my body back. I wanted to show that you can have a child and you can work hard and you can have your body back… You could have your child and you can still have fun and still be sexy and still have dreams and still live for yourself. I don’t have any shame about being sexual. I’m not embarrassed about it and I don’t feel like I have to protect that side of me."

[coochie4gucci]

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

2014 MENTALITY BITCHHHHHH

[khemicalvex]

i love this bitch

YALL REMEMBER THAT VIDEO SHE MDE FOR AMBER ROSE???

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[mygripmyfocus-deactivated201503]

I CAN HAZ? 

[mothgirlwings]

[veronicaohveronica]

Buster Keaton’s “One Week” (1920)

[howtobeafuckinglady]

I AM DONE

[howtobeafuckinglady]

ACTIVISM 

[blackberryshawty]

"RESPECT THE QUEEN WHEN YOU SEE ‘EM, BITCH."

[howtobeafuckinglady]

WHAT TIME YOU GET AWF WORK BITCH

**SILENCE**

THE FUCK I THOUGHT

[specialnights]

Little Sarah Rector, a former slave, became one of the richest little girls in America in 1914. Rector had been born among the Creek Indians, as a descendant of slaves. As a result of an earlier land treaty from the government (in 1887) the government awarded the Creek minors children 160 acres of land, which passed to Rector after her parents’ deaths. Though her land was thought to be useless, oil was discovered in its depths in 1913, when she was just 10 years old.

Her wealth caused immediate alarm and all efforts were made to put the child Sarah under “guardianship” of whites whose lives became comfortable immediately. Meanwhile Sarah still lived in humble surroundings. As white businessmen took control of her estate, efforts were also made to put her under control of officials at Tuskegee Institute.

Much attention was given to Sarah in the press. In 1913, there was an effort to have her declared white, so that because of her millions she could ride in a first class car on the trains.

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

file that under black history they could be teaching us in February

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[gothgrlsgotogivenchy]

malaan ajang a south sudenese Australian model

?????????/what kind of flawless beauty

[noire-pandora]

I am that type of douchebag friend who doesn’t talk with you for weeks but still cares about you and hopes you still care too.

[thechanelmuse]

High Fashion’s Race Problem and Its Relationship With Hip-Hop and Beyond

Hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, the panel includes Beverly Johnson, Michaela Angela Davis, Brandice Henderson, and Shiona Turini.

Excerpts

Kanye West: “I’ve got ideas that can mean something if I could put the proper production around them. […] But currently in fashion and the way the fashion world works, there’s no black guy at the end of the runway in Paris.”

Beth Ann Hardison: “Eyes are on an industry that season after season watches design houses consistently use one or no models of color. No matter the intention, the result is racism. Not accepting another based on the color of their skin is clearly beyond ‘aesthetic’ when it is consistent with the designer’s brand.”

Brandice Henderson: [In reference to Versace having no models of color and the rap song “Versace] ”People of color have all the influence in music, sports. We have so much cultural influences to push whatever we want to push forward. But what do we decide to push forward?”

Michaela Angela Davis: “This is how complex and twisted racism works. The politics of fashion are starting to fight their artistic expression. It’s not fair to say to someone, ‘you shouldn’t like Gucci because they don’t include you.’ But then you have this twisted thing, ‘they don’t include me but I [still] love it. It’s weird.”

”[…] They won’t be honest. They won’t just say blackness disrupts our aesthetic. Blackness disturbs us. Blackness interjects politics that they don’t want […] If someone would just say, ‘you know what, the black body is too complicated and it takes people’s minds off my clothes and I can’t deal with it. Tell the truth.”

Kanye West: “I’ve dedicated the past 10 years of my life to this. I spent 80% of my time working on [fashion] and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song “Niggas In Paris” is called “Niggas Is Paris?”

Brandice Henderson: “Rock your own ideas. I don’t think we have to sit back and wait for some institution to open the door for us. I think we can make our own way. We have to be very creative. Kanye West could actually fund five designers of color. Nobody has to know he’s behind it, but he could push them forward. Build up enough capital.”

Michaela Angela Davis: ”Mainstream doesn’t mean white anymore. Mainstream is an aesthetic. But there’s this mindset that mainstream is white and it is not. It’s over.”

The statistics on New York Fashion Week’s Spring 2014 Collections: white models make up 79.98%, Asian models make up 8.1%, black models make up 8.08%, and Latina models make up 3.19%. 

From 2008 to 2013, these figures haven’t changed much. Brands that don’t have any models of color include Alexander McQueen, Roberto Cavalli, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Versace, Louis Vuitton, and Iceberg to name a few.

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[veronicaohveronica]

Well, this is life in the city now.

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[veronicaohveronica]

"The least moody stylist on earth!" ™© you can say I'm very hands on as well. Luckily Kitty doesn't mind.