Closet Envy: Fashionista Shala Monroque
ESSENCE.com January, 2010
While there may be an endless supply of pretty faces decked out, with the help of stylists, in head-to-toe au courant, designer pieces making the red carpet and party rounds, to catch our eye here at ESSENCE.com, one must approach fashion with a truly individualistic approach, have savvy personal style, be adept at interpreting trends to make them her own, have an understanding of what looks good on her frame and, by all means, she must possess impeccable taste.
Finding someone like that these days can be rather difficult in a sea of style copycats, so you can imagine our giddy, school girl excitement when we discovered Shala Monroque… [Read more...]
Valerie Frankel, former editor of now-defunct Condé Nast title Mademoiselle, just released a book about the pressure to stay slim in the world of magazine publishing. In Thin Is the New Happy, Frankel writes she snorted “hillocks of cocaine” to help fit into a size 8 — sometimes at the workplace — and that she did “more blow in my first two years at Mademoiselle than in college, when I lived with a coke dealer.” She adds human resources told new hires to “represent the magazine in [their] personal appearance,” and the office motto of sorts was “get thin or die trying.”