20th – Beautifaire

10 Apr

On Aug. 21, 1981, two of probably the most gifted pugilists put all of it on the road for supremacy within the featherweight division. Reigning WBC and The Ring featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez made his sixth title defense against Wilfredo Gomez, a former WBC and The Ring title holder himself at super bantamweight. For Gomez, making the jump from 122 to 126 lbs meant forgoing his championships with a view to set his sights on recent challenges. With a refined record of 32-0-1, Gomez had done...

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27 Mar

Saks Toasts twentieth Anniversary of Nili Lotan

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Fashion, Featured

Ahead of her upcoming twentieth anniversary in business, Nili Lotan partnered with Saks for a celebratory dinner Thursday evening. Held on the fourth floor walkup Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, guests like Jacqueline Jablonski, Colin King, Alex Tieghi-Walker, Beverly Nguyen, DeVonn Francis, Anh Duong, Alexander Roth and Saks’ Roopal Patel and Tracy Margolies were treated to a special dinner by former Bon Appetit editor Andy Baraghani. Nili Lotan has been carried by Saks for roughly a yr and a half. The art gallery venue is in Tribeca, where Lotan has lived since 2006. “I'm a Tribeca queen,” the designer said during cocktails. “I live in Tribeca, my studio is in Tribeca, my store is in Tribeca. As a matter of fact, my studio was...

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9 Dec

Sanaa Lathan Reflects On ‘Brown Sugar’ For The Film’s

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Hair, Featured

Sanaa Lathan almost didn’t do Brown Sugar. It was the summer of 2000 and she or he was poised to perform in Recent York’s Shakespeare within the Park, a free, annual theatrical production. The play was a dream of hers and she or he wasn’t sure that Sugar, a cult classic that turns 20 today, had a robust enough script. The film industry was also revving up for a strike that will follow the longest Hollywood work stoppage on record. So Lathan selected Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ and went on about her business. Things modified when Sugar’s script was cleaned up, the strike didn’t occur and production was pushed back. Lathan solemnly recalls filming within the months following 9/11. “I remember...

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15 Nov