Fashion FORWARD or Clashing CHAOS

C. McDowell
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August 29th, 2011 by Free Britney 

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Talk about a matchup made in celebrity fashion heaven.
Lady Gaga's performance as Jo Calderone wasn't the last we saw of her male alter ego at the MTV Video Music Awards. She showed up at Sunday's event in character and continued to channel Jo at an after party following the show!
Topping last year's meat dress wasn't easy, but she may have managed it in her understated drag. That is way too convincing. Gaga may have even outshone Nicki Minaj - not an easy feat - for wildest couture choice of the night.
www.thehollywoodgossip.com/..

By Elliot Glazer oon 3/7/2011---> Last week, Lady Gaga stepped out of the Thierry Mugler fashion show at the Gymnase Japy in Paris to head over to a restaurant called Maxim's, dressed only like Gaga would: in head-to-toe, sheer leopard print (even showing off her skivvies), and -- DUH! -- enormous platform boots. It's very Catwoman, if Catwoman's wardrobe was transparent.

Judging by the web site for Maxim's, the place reeks of a retro, roaring-'20s aesthetic, which -- frankly -- totally clashes with Gaga's outfit, you guys! If we're going all the way back to the beginning of the 20th century, Gaga might as well have at least worn one of those butt bustle thingies. Ah well, she's already got the lipstick going for her. Lipstick was around in the '20s, right?
On the other hand, maybe Nicki Minaj has been in heavy rotation on Gaga's iPod -- or at least popping up in her RSS reader-- considering the two superstars continue to narrow the gap between the respective far-out planets from which they find their casual wear.

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Illegal but Acceptable? The Miami Drug world!?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14379073

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Adam Martin from The Atlanta Wire says, "The white powder that came to prominence in the 1970s and infused the city's pop culture image in the 1980s is now passe, according to a story in the Miami Herald. the story found recession-hit Floridians don't want to keep paying high prices for increasingly low-quality blow Miami still has plenty of well-to-do partiers, but more and more they'd rather use prescription pills than street drugs. He followed up "And/or people have been scared off by crack, while pills in Miami are easy to obtain, without the same stigma as cocaine." That goes along with a quote from a former drug king himself (Barry McCaffrey gave the Herald): "There gets to be a point where users say, ‘I can get my drugs from a criminal doctor who prescribes me a pill, In order to understand the magnitude of such an about-face, you have to remember how huge cocaine was in Miami at its heyday."The amount of money produced by Miami's coke industry in the Eighties was unlike anything ever seen in the nation's history.

So much cash was pouring into town from the wholesale and retail sectors of the trade that its sheer bulk presented logistical problems for the banks enthusiastically and unquestioningly accepting it. (The U.S. Treasury Department) made a couple of startling calculations: A full-size suitcase stuffed with twenty-dollar bills could hold roughly a half-million dollars, yet many millions were being deposited every day.

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How does the media portray woman of color on reality shows?

 According to Gina Bellafante of The New York Time on May 29th, 2011; Only a few minutes into "Single Ladies" VH1’s soaplike drama and a negatively displayed recognition, an expensive clothing store owner presents a proposition to her hot sht rich boy toy. This is where the one-night stands, loud arguments, sinle which should be swingers parties, car and business quickies and those famous im pissed off exits on this ridiculous but not entirely useless almost-postracial soap. The term gold digger is used in a supposed good way, which says something about the shame and distaste of how white women still manage to pursue men for money. Of course in the real world, all people are not necessarily prototypes, it is rarely the honest at heart who end up with the beach front homes and men with the "Big Money!".


I feel as if the writer in the previous paragraph is depicting the women as if most women are bloodsucking gold diggers, who only use sex and seduction to reel in their men. It also portrays that black women are jealous and dislike white women. They act as if they're mad at them for hogging up the good black men. The show doesnt really focus on any morals, politics, or real love, simply wealth and greed. Competition and sex are the main objectives.