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Drag Race superstar Carmen Carrera serves up the fish in the November issue of W magazine for La Femme.
Shot by Steven Miesel and styled by Edward Enninful… oh Miss Honey!
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The beautiful Morris Perfect Eat Shop in Chicago during its heyday in the 1940s, a hub of the black community on E. 47th Street, near what is now King Blvd.
That’s a Jack Delano photograph of ladies dining at the Perfect Eat Shop.
The proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Morris.
More diners enjoying the fine decor and food. And below, the Perfect Eat Shop as it appears today…
The Market Place, which houses various concerns, including an Afro-centric bookstore, a spoken word cafe, and a Rid-A-Pest extermination business.
Not perfect.
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On the left, a model at the Gareth Pugh show today at Paris Fashion Week, and on the right, an Abu Ghraib torture victim.
One’s a hot mess, one’s electrically charged.
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Miss Burbank of 1948, Debbie Reynolds popped up last night at the Prevention Magazine TV Awards something or other last night at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
Recent auctions of Debbie’s Hollywood memorabilia collection fetched millions of dollars for the star; Marilyn Monroe’s “Subway Dress” alone went for $4.6 million.
Debbie lives next door to her recently trimmed daughter, Carrie Fisher, seen below at the Creative Arts Emmys on September 10th.
Don’t they look great?
Debbie’s voice is currently heard on the Tropicana Orange Juice commercials.
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Alleged style maven June Ambrose as seen at the Zac Posen Spring 2012 fashion show in NYC, and the poster for “Super Fly.”
Only one is super fly.
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Elevator floor at the Palomar Hotel, San Francisco.
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in Chexy's Objects, gorgeousness, stuff I like, styleThat’s a 1953 portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier by Vogue photographer Horst P. Horst (that name!). Jackie would have been 82 today. She died in 1994 at age 64.
Here are some photographs of her bedroom in the White House.
This next pic was part of her dressing room.
This wardrobe is a trompe l’oeil, the objects depicted were of various significance to her. It was painted by Pierre-Marie Rudelle. Here’s a better look.
Her vanity and fainting couch.
Am I blue?
for Gina
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Swann hats… pretty sexy! They were made in Louisville, in the building seen below.
When we were kids, my brother and I worked with my cousin Howard at an antique mall in a building just like this in Philadelphia. But this is Louisville. And the building is there today…
Suites are for rent, starting at $2,975.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tests the limits of plaid as she arrives for a weekly news conference on Thursday in DC — she had no comment on Weiner pulling out.
And speaking of which…Ryan Reynolds wore this immaculately tailored gray/blue suit to the Chinese Theatre premiere of “Green Lantern” last night.
It looks like he forgot his belt. I’d forgive him.
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Gabourey Sidibe wore this slimming ensemble to the Tupperware Confide + Conquer Boys & Girls Clubs Benefit Concert last night in New York City.
It was explained to her that Tupperware is used for leftovers.
Arun Nevader/WireImage for Tupperware
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