African Festival of The Arts - Chicago

Labor Day Weekend in Chicago -


The African Festival of the Arts is one of Chicago's best! It's a delightful festival with authenic African and Carribean food vendors, a splendid shopping mecca for some of the most breathtakingly beautiful art work, jewelry, clothing, music books and one thing I truly love, fresh, natural shea butter, the real stuff direct from Africa. This event takes place on Chicago's Southside, in Washington Park near Hyde Park, the home of our President.

Visit their website to learn more and if you can't make it this year, be sure to make plans to visit Chicago next Labor Day Weekend for the last big party weekend of the summer! You'll love it!!!

www.africanfestivalchicago.com

Whitney Houston

Amber Rose's Complex Magazine Photo Shoot

She's Interesting...we'll see in coming months the brilliance of her star as Kanye West's girlfriend and as her modeling career unfold!

Fashion Designer, Elie Saab

Fall 2009 White Couture Collection

Lebanese designer Elie Saab has long been a leading name in haute couture in the Middle East, where his romantic, crystal-encrusted gowns attracted princesses to his Beirut atelier, opened in 1982 when he was just 18 years old. His ready-to-wear line, which launched in 1998 in Milan, heralds the same feminine aesthetic as his couture dresses, with brightly colored silks, chiffons, pearl beading, and embroidered lace. With their Middle Eastern detailing and European sensibility, Saab gowns are also at home on the Hollywood red carpet; Halle Berry famously wore one to pick up her Academy Award in 2002.

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What's Been Said


“He likes sexy, embroidered gowns. Period. Sequins—the more the better. Flounces, fringes and everything that glimmers—give him more.”—WWD

Jennifer Lopez

Lopez takes birthday celebrations to Rome
Jennifer Lopez has extended her 40th birthday celebrations with a family holiday in Rome, Italy.

The singer/actress reached the milestone on July 24 and hosted a party in New York on Saturday night, which was arranged by her husband Marc Anthony.

And Lopez, who recently finishing filming her new movie "The Back-Up Plan," has now taken the celebrations to Europe, arranging a trip to Rome with her husband and their two children, 17-month-old twins Max and Emme.

The couple and the kids landed in Italy on Wednesday and were seen out enjoying the shops of Via Condotti.

Lopez and Anthony subsequently left the children in safe hands so they could spend a romantic evening together, enjoying an intimate dinner.

The special night was topped off by the delivery of a bunch of red roses.