BIPOLAR NAKED Where Fashion is Exposed M--11 Spitta Hustler to Lyrcist 2012 Fashion and Hair Trends Exposed
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MEET THE FAMILY
LaRae Wilson, an Indiana native who currently resides in Los Angeles, is the creative spirit behind fashion label, Bipolar Gear. Bipolar: having or marked by two mutually repellent forces or diametrically opposed natures or views. Bipolar Gear is the evolving, expression of individuality combining two extremes at the same time. Established in December of 2008, Bipolar Gear Designer LaRae Wilson’s passion for creating groundbreaking
colorful and eccentric men’s and women’s wear by creating pieces that make you feel sexy and young. This is a second career for LaRae, who has been in the education field for over 15 years. Inspired by the colors of her students clothing, she began a journey in the ever-changing world of fashion. She describes her vision as, “me, my sewing machine, and my imagination”. Fashion is innovation at its finest, it is ever changing and
everlasting, as is this collection. Filled with the wardrobe of a confident woman seeking individuality and uniqueness of expression. LaRae took the mainstream indecisive woman and provided her with the combination of comfort, style, and a fresh look. “Our mission is to provide stylish comfortable clothing, while encouraging dialogue and promoting self- expression”.
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MEET THE FAMILY
Jennifer Wilson Mid-West Correspondent
Jasmine Jones Fashion Photographer
Amanda Mesa Fashion Trend Correspondent
Shonte Williams West Coast Correspondent
Marlin Barnes
Ryan Bennett
Political Correspondent
Mid-West Fashion Insider
CONTENTS
Features Page 6
2012 Hair Trends Page 14
2012 Fashion Trends Page 18
Inside Bipolar 2012 Page 21
Backstage with Bipolar Gear Page 26
M-11 Spitta from Hustler to Lyricist Ya Heard Page 30
For the Love of Fashion A Designer Story Page 32
A Night Out with Bipolar Gear Page 35
The Children’s Museum Indianapolis The Barbie Exhibit Page 36
Is this what the Lazy Do?
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HAIR TRENDS
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The hair trends are all about renaissance and the revival of the classic styles. There is a unique undertone of modern styles appearing, but take some of the most iconic styles of the 20th century, infuse them with quality, and you’ll find the basis for the dominant styles
The year’s hair trends are no different. For fashionista’s in 2012, hair is all about revivals and evolution. With styles and colors we’re seeing the best of 2011 reborn, whereas cuts are offering reworked and luxurious revivals of styles that sit perfectly with the year’s clothing trends.
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LONG HAIR STYLES
Long and Homemade Bouncy Curls
Described as a gorgeous blow-out the bouncy blow dry gives long hair a groomed, elegant yet relaxed finish. Inspired, in part, by the 70s fashion revival but working across most of 2012ʹ′s looks, you can read our guide to the bouncy blow dry bouncy for a step-by-step tutorial on getting the look and ensuring that you have the optimum bounce in the roots and the soft waves to frame your face. Hair type suited to: long straight hair & long wavy hair Hair color suited to: all
Both nostalgic and modern, this girlish and quirky hairstyle features many an element of other 2012 hairstyle trends: it has a parting and obvious product definition. Soft and eyecatching, homemade curls give off a laid back air as one of 2012ʹ′s long hairstyle trends.
Hair type suited to: long straight hair & long wavy hair Hair color suited to: all, though we feature it with blonde hair
French Twist Given that classic fashion revivals define 2012, it should come as no surprised to find that classic hairstyles also go a long way to defining the year. Equally of no surprise is the fact that the French twist hairstyle features for the year. Click the link for the full how-to and styling tips guide. Hair type suited to: long straight hair & long wavy hair Hair color suited to: all Season suited to: best as a spring / summer 2012 hairstyle
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LONG HAIR STYLES
Looped Under Ponytail
Less of a bun and more of a ponytail that’s been folded and looped under, this hairstyle offers up a mood somewhere between easy and casual, and tightly equestrian. this show pony hairstyle was kept perfectly tidy, bar for a hint of teased volume and a few loose strands around the face that added an authenticity, as if just stepping in from a ride. Like others of 2012ʹ′s ‘done’ hairstyles this one is careful yet not over-fussy, and doesn’t have to be reserved for the evening. Hair type suited to: long straight hair & long wavy hair. Hair color suited to: all. Season suited to: best as a
Half Up Half Down Some hairstyles have a habit of dipping in and out of fashion, while others are so classic they never seem to date. It’s one from the latter category that we focus on today, drawing inspiration from those icons of the 1960s that were so seductive, so utterly sex kitten, that it’s hard to imagine their voluminous hairstyles ever being less than desirable. This is also a style that can be adapted and varied year after year, and thus one well worth mastering. It’s a modern take on a style we often associate with the likes of Brigitte Bardot: a half up bouffant hairstyle. Hair type suited to: long straight hair & long wavy hair.
Side Pinned Waves Flowing, bouncy waves accessorized by a side-pinned barrette create something of a girlish charm. While long hair works fantastically well for this look – as seen on the spring runway of Sonia Rykiel – this hairstyle can also work for short or mid hair lengths. A collision of forties glamour and seventies relaxed cool, you can create the style for yourself. Hair type suited to: long straight hair & long wavy hair. Hair color suited to: all.
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MID-LENGTH HAIR STYLES
Retro Faux Wet-Look All Pinned Bob Up Chignon As perfect as a Stepford wife, as ice cool as Betty Draper, as vintage as yesteryear and as modern as tomorrow, 2012ʹ′s faux bob hairstyle gives the year a structured, pristine, ‘done’ hairstyle that borrows much from the 60s fashion revival. Hair type suited to: straight hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair. Hair length suited to: midlength haircut or long hair. Hair color suited to: all colors
Don’t be afraid to get your hair wet in 2012 – or at least give the impression that it’s wet. Amongst a long list of wet look 2012 hairstyles, this wet-look chignon offers up plenty of versatility along with a relaxed feel. Hair type suited to: straight hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair. Hair length suited to: midlength haircut or long hair. Hair color suited to: all colors
If there’s a middle ground between being stylishly done and carelessly undone, this 2012 women’s hairstyle occupies it. Elegant to a tee, it doesn’t require precision or complex tools (bobby pins are your friend – and lots of them) but it does require a little finesse to pull off that undonedone look of effortless chic. Hair type suited to: straight hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair. Hair length suited to: midlength haircut or long hair.
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MID-LENGTH HAIR STYLES
Chignon with side Wave
Double Twist
The trending hairstyles for 2012 range from the neat and As seasons change, hairstyles elegant to the downright are given new twists. This year careless. Regardless of where the dependable chignon gets they sit on that spectrum, the reinvented. In this take, it gets a only real requirement is that sweeping side part with soft they’re chic, evocative, and fun waves on one side, creating a to create. The effect? A 1960’s unique effect that varies with style bouffant hairstyle that the angle you view it from. crowns any outfit with an elegant vintage vibe. Hair type suited to: straight hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy Hair type suited to: straight hair. hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy Hair length suited to: shoulder hair. length to long hair. Hair length suited to: midHair color suited to: all colors length haircut or long hair.
Bob with Fringe Bangs The bob is back, is reinterpreted and is reimagined. As a 2012 hairstyle the bob is softer and more retro-inspired, having been infused with a 60s backcombing and a 70s soft, rounded shape. Hair type suited to: straight hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair. Hair length suited to: midlength haircut or long hair.
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SHORT HAIR STYLES
Mod Bob
Natural
Short. Voluminous. Messy. With the return of all things This is the 2012 women’s 1970s it should come as no hairstyle that marries a short surprise to find that the afro hair cut with the best of the sits amongst 2012ʹ′s hairstyles. 1960s fashion revival to create Appearing on the streets and in a Mod bob that’s been inspired many a photo shoot, the by the likes of Brigitte Bardot natural is being interpreted for and Twiggy. 2012 in a soft and dreamy way.
Pixie Cut Given it has so many devotees, the pixie crop isn’t disappearing from amongst 2012’s haircut trends. But it is being adapted. In the face of the likes of the 1920s fashion revival, we’re seeing the pixie crop deviate into several different styles. There’s the 60s and 70s crops, there’ll be the 20s crop, and, for 2012, there’s the rock crop.
Hair type suited to: straight Hair type suited to: straight Hair type suited to: straight hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair, relaxed curly hair & wavy hair hair hair Hair length suited to: short hair Hair length suited to: short hair Hair length suited to: short hair Hair color suited to: all colors Hair color suited to: all colors Hair color suited to: all colors
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ALL LENGTH HAIR STYLES
Center Part Wet Look As the default hair parting for most women it seems somewhat silly to cite a centre hair part amongst 2012’s hairstyles. But bear with us. Hairstyle trends often have more than one element about them, and that’s the case with the centre part in 2012. Suited to all hair colors, the centre part aligns itself with two or 2012’s revival trends:‘60s fashion and ‘70s fashion for spring / summer 2012.
Side Part
Perfectly slick or crazy textured, The center might be where flowing free or tied up high. A hair sits if you want to rock a vast number of styles across the 60s or 70s vibe in 2012, but for spring 2012 runways had one those looking for a part that thing in common: they all had a offers up more of a fashionwet-look finish. With oils, seaforward vibe then your 2012 sprays and gels aplenty hairstyle is all about the side dominating the runways it part. would be neglectful of us not to count wet look hair amoung the Wear it left, right, up, down, list of 2012 hairstyle trends – wet, dry, when you’re in a and to look at how the style in hurry or taking your time… it its many forms can translate to matters not. What matters is everyday life. that in 2012, if you’ve got the hair to suit the styles, you move your hair part to the side.
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MEN’S HAIR STYLES
Natural 2012 is all about exploring a masculine edge. Sure it’s refined, but there have been only a few periods in recent history where true masculinity didn’t come with a polished edge. Thus we leave behind a period where men and boy bands alike head to a hairstylist for the latest chemical straightening technique and instead, for those of them with curly hair, can opt for something au natural.
Brit-Rock Indie Inspired by many a British indie band (and a hell of a lot of Burberry catwalks in between), 2012ʹ′s Brit-rock indie hairstyle oozes kicked back and relaxed. It has nearly only one rule: sweep the hair forwards. The rest of the details, from the cut of the top to the length of the sides, allows you to work with whatever haircut styles suit you best.
Natural, but no less stylish. And natural is, effectively, where the short and curly hairstyle sits in 2012.
Good for: straight hair, wavy hair, curly hair that can be relaxed
Undercut The popularity of shows such as Boardwalk Empire mixed with just how sharp this hair cut looks sees the revival of the slicked back undercut influenced by the styles of the early 20th Century. But dust be damned – you’re going to hear a lot more of short back and sides in the coming year. Your hair stylist is going to whisk scissors around your head and then do something that they probably haven’t done in a long time: they’ll ask permission to use clippers. Neigh, they’ll beg permission. Good for: straight hair & hair that can be straightened
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FASHION TRENDS EXPOSED
By Amanda Mesa
Faux Fur
Nothing jazzes up an outfit quite like a little fur. With one piece of clothing you can take your look from every day to chic and sexy. Every woman (or man!) looks and feels a little more fly when they put on a fur, whether it's a vest, a jacket, or even an old school stole. And trust us, as soon as you hit
the streets in your fabulous faux fur you'll be turning heads left and right. So if you're trying to decide what you need to add a little umph to your wardrobe but don't want to spend more money than you make in a month go for the faux! A complicated trend since it can go wrong
VERY quickly, subtlety is key in a swipe of a credit card you can go from stunning to Eskimo‌.my advice pick either a coat or vest or boot with fur accent keep it simple and sleek.
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FASHION TRENDS EXPOSED
Tuxedo Jackets This look is a great investment it’s a classy way to dress up a pair of jeans and heels or dress down your favorite cocktail dress. Tailoring is key with any wardrobe essential, purchase one you love and take it to your tailor and have it fit for you. Now, we're convinced the tuxedo jacket pairs perfectly with nearly all of our evening-out
attire we envision coupling it with our holiday best for the months ahead. But, dressed up or dressed down, it lends a polished juxtaposition to denim or a bit of a masculine edge to counter your party dress frills. Unlike the ubiquitous, little boystyle, cropped blazers, the tux jacket is cut slightly longer in the sleeves and body. This fit, plus
satin trim, adds a certain sophistication to the rest of your outfit. You can wear it with relaxed trousers or skinny black pants, but they look sensational over short and long dresses alike. It’s like borrowing your boyfriend’s jacket after a fancy party on the way home only the fit is perfectly feminine, perfectly you.
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FASHION TRENDS EXPOSED
Wide Leg Trouser
Why do designers love them? Because wide-leg trousers are a good pair of pants to have in your wardrobe they're comfortable, hip-slimming, and waist-cinching. The wide leg trouser flatters any figure as they flow with every step you take. Lighten up dark colored
pants for the warmer months by pairing them with light colors up top and swap the boots for wedges or high heeled sandals. They can instantly lengthen your legs if you pair them with your highest of high heels. For some of us, the high-waisted, wide-
leg trouser will never really go out of style. So, when we saw it popping up on practically everyone's runways—the sidewalks outside the shows, included!—we knew these '70s-inspired bottoms were back with a vengeance Go on, try something new.
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FASHION TRENDS EXPOSED
Metallic’s This trend is versatile like the tuxedo jacket it can be dressed up or down. You can accent your favorite dress by adding a metallic shoe and bag, or do metallic dress with a neutral pump. The hardest metallic look to pull off is eye makeup PROCEED with CAUTION!
Personally, I think iridescent evening wear is classic, fun, and adorable. The trend is a little more tricky to wear for day because it can easily look tacky or overwhelming. However, a shiny metallic top peaking out from under a blazer could be the perfect way
to add this trend into your wardrobe. Whether you opt for just a touch with a metallic accessory, or dare to wear a glitzy ensemble, this is a trend worth mining.
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“I can't even watch the SIMPSON’S without designing a NEW dress for Marge. I am totally INSANE.”LaRae Wilson
Inside Bipolar Gear 2012 By LaRae Wilson
I get a lot of questions about how I started my career in fashion. Fashion and creating fashion is a labor of love that the general public will never see. The hours spent touching and looking at the fabric before I stitch one stitch may take as long as a month. But when I get that spark of inspiration, it is on!!! What I love about my 2012 Spring collection is that it expresses my personality as a woman first, than as a designer. My goal was to create garments make the wearer feel sexy and
that look amazing. I believe that every person wants to feel sexy and look amazing. My collection is inspired by my love for vintage clothing. I am a huge fan of I LOVE LUCY (50's era). The wardrobe that the cast wore was phenomenal. The full skirt and adorable sweater sets that the ladies wore were SICK!!! The tailoring on the MEN'S garments gorgeous. My biggest challenge as a designer, is that everyone wants to tell me what I should design. I find it amusing that people want to be a part of
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Inside Bipolar Gear 2012 By LaRae Wilson
find it amusing that people want to be a part of what I am creating. It becomes difficult when people don't understand that I design what I feel and not what they saw at the mall that morning. Another challenge for me, is turning the "designer" off !!! I dream, eat, sleep, see, walk, talk, research FASHION. It never leaves me alone!!! I can't even watch the SIMPSON’S designing a NEW dress for Marge. I am totally INSANE. My unconventional style has to come through with my choices of fabrics and they way I put them together. I like to use very LOUD fabrics and sometimes upholstery fabrics when designing. I find that a classic cut and an amazing unique fabric is where I am as a designer. I have a jacket that I made out of checkered upholstery fabric, it is where I got the first description of my designs...CHANEL on LSD!! Since then, my designs have been called everything from ultra-feminine to classic with a
No models were hurt in the making of this magazine!
bit of the absurd (I thought that one was hilarious). If I could have anyone wear one of my creations it would have to be Lucille Ball or Rita Hayworth...both women were ICONIC!! My goals for 2012 are to take over fashion world one dress at a time. This year has already started off with a bang, I have signed the lease for my first retail location in the city of Torrance in California. I WILL be showing my Fall 2012 line in NYC!!! I have some huge things up these BELL SLEEVES!! I just want to tell everyone that two years ago, I bought a $80 sewing machine with an instructional DVD. I stayed up for months teaching myself how to sew using Youtube tutorials. Now, by the grace of GOD and listening to HIM...I am HERE!!! Follow your dreams, listen to your heart and your inner voice. Old dogs can learn new tricks...trust me. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
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Please don’t feed the models! LMAO!!
Back Stage with Bipolar Gear Photos by Jasmine Jones
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These dresses aren’t going to wear themselves!
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“ I feel like I spend most of my life waiting backstage or in hair and makeup!” LaRae Wilson
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“I love my models!! They really make my clothes look AMAZING!!! I have been blessed to work with some of the baddest ladies in the game!” LaRae Wilson
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M-11 SPITTA
HUSTLER TO LYRICIST YA HEARD
BIPOLAR NAKED January Issue M-11 formally a New Orleans street hustler, has transformed into a profound voiced lyricist. He now delivers stories of lessons well-learned from his challenges of life occurrences.
of a new trial; with that C-Murder TRU Records recording artist M-11 began a TRU Records movement. The Spitta, was born in New Orleans, movement included introducing the new Louisiana and raised in the infamous sound of M-11 Spitta to the Rap/HipMagnolia Projects located in the heart of Hop world as one of the new artist of uptown. His livelihood and lyrical TRU Records Label. Hardcore Rap/Hip-Hop style, managed to gainer the attention of New Orleans M-11 Spitta states, “My lyrical style most recognized rappers such as Creflects my TRUthful life experiences Murder (brother of Master P), Mia X, which cannot be duplicated�. Although, Soulja Slim of Cutt-Throat Committee, M-11 found his love of rapping and Juvenile, Mac, Manny Fresh, 6 Shot, music at age fifteen, he later became a Currency, Lil Wayne, B.G. and Mr. product of his environment by becoming Marcelo from the 504 Boyz. Association a street hustler. After getting in and out with a few of those artists and his of trouble with the law, he focused his truthfulness to music, allowed him to life on his first love MUSIC. M-11 become a ghost- writer for various formally a New Orleans street hustler, unsigned artists that were recording with has transformed into a profound voiced them. During that time, he began to lyricist. diligently write lyrics to break into the He now delivers stories of lessons music scene. well-learned from his challenges of life occurrences. In 2006, C-Murder who was successful in having his sentence overturned and was later released in wait
BIPOLAR NAKED January Issue A few of his achievements consist of the December 2007 release of The Movement, a DVD Directed by Will Horton featuring M-11 Spitta; which is a documentary of CMurder’s life. The Movement included New Orleans based rappers and artist from TRU Records Label. The September 2009 release of Calliope Click, a CD by C-Murder featuring M-11 Spitta lyrically on the selected song My City. The November 2009 release of N.O. Exposed, a
CD by M-11 Spitta and promoted by DJ Age from Australia. This CD exposed M-11 clever lyrics, and was laced with selected producers such as T-Rhythm. TRhythm is a producer of various songs for C-Murder's album Calliope Click and Zoe. Zoe is the late Soulja Slim producer of the hit single, " I'll pay for it". M-11 Spitta has collaborated musically with some of the best in the world and the best is yet to come. Stay plugged it's a TRU movement!
Stay plugged it's a TRU movement!
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M-11 SPITTA HUSTLER TO LYRICIST YA HEARD Q: How long have you been in the industry? A: I have been in the industry for over 11 years and counting
A: What makes M-11 bipolar huh? The way I can just take a track and go loco on it ha ha!! I’m not scared to try something new.
Q: Is there any musician - dead or alive Q :What is your biggest accomplishment that you would love to collaborate with? in the industry? A: Yeah of course 2pac is number 1 on A: My biggest accomplishment in the my list and snoop dogg off the top. industry was when I first heard myself on the radio Q: What do you hope to accomplish in this next coming year? Q:What do you love and hate about A: A bigger fan base you will see a lot of your industry? M-11 Spitta in 2012 take my word for it. I A: I love the fact that i can make money am in grind mode! with a job that I love so much and i hate Q: Any finals thoughts? how we all can't stick together as one unit A: I would like to thank God for blessing and get this money without the hating we me with this talent to entertain people like crabs in ah bucket soon as one rapper Thanks to LaRae "PIEFACE� Wilson tries to make it they have somebody trying for featuring me in her magazine and just to pull u back down its crazy. be on the look out for me M-11! Q: What makes you Bipolar?
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FOR THE LOVE OF FASHION “A DESIGNER STORY” BY RYAN BENNETT
“I brought all white models to the Kwanzaa Celebration!” Ryan Bennett
Ryan Bennett is a young up and coming fashion designer in the Mid-West. Ryan is a multitalented threat! Besides, his design he is a performer, fashion photographer and my little cousin! Yes, FASHION runs in our family.
What makes you Bipolar? What makes me Bipolar is my design aesthetic. I have such an affection for simple and plain yet simultaneously indulge in the elaborate and detailed. I like to straddle the fence in both design and life. I feel it keeps me balanced. The two extremes create a nice gray area. :)
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FOR THE LOVE OF FASHION
woman. It's a release for me to sketch, to let the pencil find shapes on the paper. I like to push myself outside I my comfort zones. great curves and I like to accentuate those lines of a woman's body. I design for the everyday woman that wants to show a flash of glimmer from time to time. The woman that's not afraid of attention, but nor does she beg for By Ryan Bennett attention. She is strong and Why do you design? I design secure with who she is. Her for the artistic freedom and mentality is "I make the challenge of creating clothes". My clothes are an something new and different. accessory to an extraordinary When I started designing I had lifestyle. absolutely no idea what i was doing. Designing keeps me What designers influence you? busy and keeps my mind I absolutely love Alexander sharp. I like the challenge of McQueen. He's creativity, to being a man designing for a me, is unparalleled. I don't woman. It's a release for me to think I'll ever be as out the box sketch, to let the pencil find as he is, but I aspire to get shapes on the paper. I like to there. His attention to detail push myself outside I my was amazing. Now to show how comfort zones. bipolar I can be, I love the
“A DESIGNER STORY”
see myself living and racing toward the dream.
Who do you design for? First and foremost I design for myself. My original goal once I started designing wasn't to become a multi-millionaire designer. My goal was to take an idea from my head and see simplicity of Calvin Klein. it materialize. There's Who do you design for? First something gratifying about and foremost I design for Where is fashion headed? conceptualizing a project and myself. My original goal once I Fashion repeats itself. I like to seeing it come to fruition. started designing wasn't to make clothes that are multiWomen are sexy. They have become a multi-millionaire functional. For me it's hard to great curves and I like to designer. My goal was to take speculate what's going to be the accentuate those lines of a an idea from my head and see next crave. I don't think about woman's body. I design for the it materialize. There's that as I design. I like to think everyday woman that wants to something gratifying about conceptualizing a project and about what is missing and how show a flash of glimmer from to make what I've done better. time to time. The woman that's seeing it come to fruition. not afraid of attention, but nor Women are sexy. They have Where do you see yourself in does she beg for attention. She great curves and I like to 2012? In 2012 I see myself is strong and secure with who accentuate those lines of a understanding a great more she is. Her mentality is "I make woman's body. I design for the about finding peace while the clothes". My clothes are an everyday woman that wants to working more on personal accessory to an extraordinary show a flash of glimmer from projects. Doing the extremes to time to time. The woman lifestyle. that's not afraid of attention, but nor does she beg for
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A NIGHT OUT WITH BIPOLAR GEAR
Nipsey Hussle
“I
must say that the ladies came dressed to impress and the fellas definitely gave you something to look at, and with performances by Omarion, Nipsey and Kurupt just put the icing on the cake for the evening.”
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Kurupt and his posse
With the year coming to an end, we stepped out to one of orange counties hot spots to check out whats going on in the scene and to check out see some hot trends. Club Ember was not only a sexy and classy venue, but it also attracted all crowds and played great music to make the perfect night out on the town. During our visit we got to hang out with some of the hottest artist like Omarion, Nipsey Hussle, Tye $ and
Kurupt and boy do they know how to party! I must say that the ladies came dressed to impress and the fellas definitely gave you something to look at, and with performances by Omarion, Nipsey and Kurupt just put the icing on the cake for the evening. We will definitely be back in the new year to check out what Club Ember has in store for us next time! We hope to see you there!!!
A NIGHT OUT WITH BIPOLAR GEAR
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“During
our visit we got to hang out with some of the hottest artist like Omarion, Nipsey Hussle, Tye $ and Kurupt and boy do they know how to party!” Shonte Williams
A NIGHT OUT WITH BIPOLAR GEAR
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THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS THE BARBIE EXHIBIT By Jennifer Wilson and Jace Dickerson
Q: Why did you guys go to the children’s museum? A: Because it was the free night at the museum so you get in for free. Q: Was there any exhibit at the children’s museum that you liked? A: Like my favorite? Q: Yes, like your favorite. A: Um I like the one where we get to go to Egypt and the Barbie exhibit. Q: Tell me about the Barbie exhibit A: Well there’s an area where you can make your own clothes, walk down the runway and there’s a back stage where you can look at clothes to put on and then when you walk out on the runway, there’s chairs for the audience and there’s like a DJ and there’s cameras so you can take pictures. Q: Do you have a lot of Barbie’s? A: Kinda….. Q: Kind of ? A: Yeah……I just got a new Barbie for Christmas. Q: Do you like to change your Barbie’s clothes? A: Yep! Q: Did you like that about the children’s museum, changing the Barbie’s clothes? A: Yep, it was fun. I got to try on different things and there were little mannequins and there were
big ones that you could take the cloth that was on the mannequin and fix it the way you want it. Q: So you got to make your own Barbie clothes? A: Yes and with the small mannequin you can wrap it by taking hair ties and wrap it around it to make it stay and use different cloths, but on the big one they had cloth that was attached to it and you had to wrap it around to make it look different Q: When you get older do you want to do anything in fashion? A: Um, maybe…. Q:What else did you get for Christmas? A:I got a kids sewing machine. And I want to use it…..when I was at church one time we sewed dresses out of pillowcases for the people in Haiti…I made a purple one. Q:Anything else you want to share about your visit to the children’s museum Barbie exhibits? A:We also got to see the people who made Barbie’s. Q: Who makes barbies? A:Um, I don’t remember her name , but she’s black and um, the way they make it is they take some kind of sewing machine to make their face and hair. It was pretty cool……
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IS THIS WHAT THE LAZY DO?
“I never recalled in all the miracles of healing and even summoning the Dead back to Life did Christ ever utter the words: “Dost Thou Have Thy Medical Card?”
enter through an eye of a needle figures is that they reap benefits (Matt. 19:24). of success from a system of BY MARLIN BARNES government that is designed to Why is that? give EVERYONE a fair Recently, Republican presidential candidate Newt opportunity (i.e. FHA loans and Perhaps because it’s more Gingrich of Georgia, remarked difficult to talk to God when you the G.I. Bill) and a fair piece of in a debate that OCCUPY have deadlines to meet, mergers the American economic pie all WALL STREET participants the while protecting ones’ to settle or autograph to dole were “lazy” and “should take a personal liberty and religious bath and go get a job”. Like too out to contributors and many Americans who are worshippers. For if you believe freedom (i.e. no taxation on successful, Gingrich has lost in God (even the white version churches). Those like Gingrich touch with most of the country as most evangelical conservative and his conservative cohorts and the struggles it faces. It is made a great “living” off this Christians do) then you would easy to forget that we are in a system only to play “prodigal have to listen to Him. And if DEEP recession when you have you listen to Him and heed His sons” and turn their collective a $100k tap at Tiffany’s. It’s words, you will find yourself in a backs on that system, even harder to have empathy denouncing it a failure and for others when you’re climbing whole lot of trouble with Him the corporate ladder, soaring criticizing those and most importantly, as high across the political politicians call it, you will find Is there hope? landscape or just doing well, in yourself “off” message. general, with your finances. As Surely! Religiously speaking, if Jesus once said: “It is harder for The hypocrisy of Gingrich and we follow in God’s footsteps we a rich man to enter into the many religious and political will see that health care should Kingdom, than for a camel to
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be free or at least available to everyone. I never recalled in all the miracles of healing and even summoning the Dead back to Life did Christ ever utter the words: “Dost Thou Have Thy Medical Card?” Furthermore, on the cankerous topic of “Spreading the Wealth”, Christ once fed 5000 people with five loathes of bread and two fish. If that’s not spreading the wealth I don’t know what is? I would love to sit in on a Republican family’s “play date” with their children and hear someone advise a selfish child to “not spread the wealth of their toys because it’s Socialist” and then turn to exhort the sad, deprived child to: “Pull yourself up by your WeeBok laces and get off your lazy bum and get your own toy”!
television, sleeping in tents, holding up cardboard signs outside of government buildings and shouting at the top of their lungs: “We are the 99 Percent!” These are the “lazy ones” that Gingrich and Co. are referring to. These are the TRUE grassroots movements that shape a nation not the Tea Party. (Note: the Tea Party is not grassroots. Logic tells you that a grassroots organization could never mobilize and elect candidates that fast and that effective. I believe we consider this a political machine).
But hard times have changed their perspectives because they too have trouble paying the rent. The position they had in the past was taken away from them in mass lay-offs, their sense of pride and security jolted at the sudden prospect of not making it back from the lost mortgages and back to This, I pray is not the message that any Republican their respective social status. Those who once would give to their children. But it does prove looked up to their rich boss and down on the contrary to the very ways in which they view other working class, are now looking through those sochildren of God. We hear this rhetoric from socalled “job creators” and looking to the very called Christian conservatives on the radio waves people who they once turned up their nose at for and talk shows. It is not only sickening to the help in navigating food stamps, unemployment moral fiber of a country professed to exist under insurance lines and for job leads. Those who God, but a downright rebuke of God himself and didn’t have time for God are now running to the judgment will be had! pews, seeking His face and Judgment has come in the form of the 99 percenters who have taken this country and this world by storm with Occupy Wall Street. Many who shared those philosophies were humbled during this massive recession. All those 20-plus million jobless aren’t janitors and doorman. The masses are supervisors, engineers, educators and business folks. You can see them all over the
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gradually finding their own voices.
We all know a few lazy people. But here in Los Angeles, lazy people on’t’ march for hours and brave the worst traffic in the western hemisphere to seek justice against this Capitalist hi-jacking. Lazy people don’t ignore the elements, go out of their comfort zone and sleep in tents for weeks. No, lazy people don’t protest, ingest pepper spray and go to jail for their beliefs. No, we define these as desperate people!! And if you pan the screen carefully you won’t see a bunch of incoherent bums, you see your old classmates, the businesswoman who ran a shop in your neighborhood, the articulate and educated. And to thwart that age-old Republican inclination to blame the economic ills on the corrupt “welfare queens” you see mostly young, affluent Whites. These are not lazy people with bad hygiene. These are good Americans who happen to be pissed off at having played by the proverbial rules and getting hosed by Reaganomics: but, from the bottom up!
Occupiers resemble the very people that God was referencing when he told us to “give freely” (Luke 6:35) and the very people he emulated in status when He sent His son Jesus, who came to us of “no reputation” (Phil. 2:7). Now Gingrich has several more moral issues to deal with as he continues to find favor amongst his splintered party. The death of William Buckley, the viability of Donald Trump and the very fact that a thrice-married adulterer is a frontrunning candidate signifies a great regression of the Republican platform. I believe as we continue to see the rich unwilling to sacrifice a fraction of their wealth as the poor have sacrificed their blood, reason will give way to more of an awakening of the American public. As we grow stronger under the uplifting leadership of President Obama, we will grow less tolerant of selfishness and self-righteousness and discover who the underlying culprits are. We will soon uncover that the real lazy ones are those greedy, judgmental, disrespectful and narcissistic buffoons like Gingrich who regurgitate ideas they don’t even believe (hence the constant flipflopping) and send them to the “showers” on election night 2012. And maybe, just maybe when they are laid-off that very government payroll they so adamantly declare is too big and intrusive they could heed Newt’s declaration to “GET A JOB”!!