Fashiona

Day, Fashiona’s  20 something friend and sometimes photographer, went to the 23rd Night of Thousands Gowns.  The event held by the Imperial Court of New York is the largest LGBT fundraiser of the year.

This year’s silent auction  benefited LIFE beat and MCCNY Homeless Youth Services. Only the auction was silent…and a good time was had by all:real queens, faux queens, wannabe queens, or queens for the day.

YOU figure out who is who!

Miss Day was volunteering at the event but she was all smiles too.  See her with RuPaul.

…not quite,”she” is actually Rupaul’s protege~the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race~BEBE.

Day betta work…on a freakin’ WEBSITE so we can ALL see MORE of her fabulous photos. 

Peer pressure is a beast isn’t it…

Fashiona is ready to answer two outstanding questions:

1. How do you pronounce Fashiona? It is pronounced Fash-in-a.  Only Col. Dad and Mr. Random are allowed to say Fash-own-a  
2. What happened to that  class that she was supposed to teach?  Long story short: lesson plans were done, the offer letter was sent and start date was set…twice(true story), but alas the class was canceled.

Ironically, the WWD, otherwise known as the fashion bible, reported this week that enrollment in fashion colleges and schools  including: Parsons, Pratt Institute, FIT, St. Martins, Savannah College of Art and Design has increased at least 25-30%. Both the schools and the industry heads agree that even creative students need  to be more well-rounded and learn business skills as well as honing their crafts. 

Fashion 101: School adjust to the economy.Photo by Tyler Resty as shown on WWD.com

…so Miss Fashiona has other irons in the fire…got that shoe habit to support.

And yes she will bring the funny back tomorrow.

Day went to Night of Thousand Gowns‏ and has the pictures to show for it. Hail to  the queens…

Ok so Fashiona was introduced to Harlem Heights back in January when she went to the final taping of the show but no worries she won’t reveal the ending.

She also interviewed one of the co-producers, Randolph Sturrup last week. Did you catch her non subtle insertion of FAMU’s colors of green and orange?  He asked her opinion of the fashion but she deferred since she was the one that supposed to be asking the questions.  

Now fresh after watching show number 5 thanks to DVR…Miss Fashiona is ready to bring it. 

Summary Fashiona style:

Jason spends quality time with his cutie pie daughter at Dave’s.  Fashiona marvels at how he talks to her like she is a little “G”  and his daughter actually understands what he is saying. 

Pierre goes home to Trenton to visit with his family.  The more Fashiona learns about him the more she is mystified by his fascination with self serving Brooke. 

Christian with his chocolately  self, makes out with Brooke at Ashlie’s job. Fashiona does concede that Christian is fine…a playa player still; Morehouse educated and charming but still on the prowl.

Ashlie,who is clearly not Fashiona’s fav character won some major bonus points by putting “Sexual Chocolate” in his place.

Fashionwise…Fashiona gets where they are coming from.  Ally is young and it shows in her playful choices…but sidebar to Ashlie…even she saw the drama with Christian coming.  Fashiona digs the guys’ fashion choices for the most part.  But Ashlie…honey just PLEASE ease up on the make-up …blue eyeshadow and the blush…not a good look.

Tyra, who has legs a mile long, is showing love to the petite ladies among us. The 13th cycle of The CW’s America’s Next Top Model will be required to be at or below five feet, seven inches (5′ 7″) in height for the first time in the show’s history.Day reminded Fashiona that New York City was where the stampede was~not that Fashiona is condoning such behavior but as Miss A says”little people have a lot of energy.”

Salma Hayek, Jada Pickett Smith, Eva Longorina Parker and Fashiona’s own Day, Miss A, Ms. M and Ms.Now-am-I size-2-after the -baby are all proof that petite women are only petite in stature only. They are all serious forces to be reckoned with.

Hanky Panky has also introduced their signature lace low rise thongs in Petite fit for the first time in the US.

Ladies, Fashiona is just the messenger…the only thing petite on her are her freakishly small wrists.

But seriously,aren’t all thongs “petite”?…just asking!