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LIFE: Grey Goose Cherry Noir Influencer Dinner Hosted By Selita Ebanks Food by Chef Roble – NYC (3.13.12)

Special thanks to Miss Bevy Smith for always dusting off her Downtown Little Sister and giving her some life. When I got the invite I knew I had to come correct. Not only for Bevy, but also for Grey Goose.

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NEWS: Vashtie Featured On VH1 Big Morning Buzz Live With Hosts Carrie & Jason (Thursday 3/15 @ 10AM)

  *Teresa Giudice & Me. Oh snap. VH1 asked me to come on their hot new Morning Show called Big Morning Buzz Live which is hosted by ultra cuties Carrie and Jason. When the producers asked me to present sneakers

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INTERVIEW: Deer Dana x Vashtie x Jeremy Lin Shirt

So, Josh Madden is my creative soul mate. Whatever Josh puts me on to ends up being my new obsession and forever favorite. No lie, this dude not only knows everything rad, he just knows what everyone else will love.

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FOTO: Feeling Brand New With My Naomi Nails

I feel like my nails are in drag right about now and I’m feeling brand new. I went from getting manicures like Ocho Cinco to getting my nails done like Liberace. Miss Naomi Yasuda changed my nail bed for life…or

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FOTO: Nails By Naomi Yasuda & Jewel Shopping At Genevieve Jones Studio

Earlier today, I finally made my way to Miss Naomi Yasuda’s for nail life. If you don’t know, Naomi is Queen Mother when it comes to nail beds, cal gel and gems. Take a look at how she turned out

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NEWS: BIG K.R.I.T. visits 106 & Park Tonight!!!

Tune in!!!

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BEHIND THE SCENES: Directing “Boobie Miles” For Big K.R.I.T.

Having the opportunity to work with the artists that I love and respect has been a huge blessing in my career, and working with BIG KRIT is definitely on my list as one of my favorite collaborations to date (if

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Big K.R.I.T. – “Boobie Miles” – Directed by Vashtie

Yes!!! Finally. I’m so excited to share this with you. Behind the scenes coming very soon!

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VIDEO: Jesse Boykins III – “B4 The Night Is Thru” Dir. Dr. Woo

Ah this is a very sweet video, which is more like a short film rather than your basic music video. I love it!

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FOTO: Vashtie By Johnny Killeface of MINYGANG.TUMBLR (2012)

CHECK OUT HIS TUMBLR - MINYGANG.TUMBLR.COM  

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INVITE: Ninjasonik EP Release Party – Hosted By Va$htie & 40oz Van – Music By Josh Madden, Jasmine Solano & WC Kids – Heineken (3.6.12)

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INVITE: Directions in Music – Oscar’s Birthday – Kingdom, Total Freedom, Brian DeGraw & More – Santos Party House (2.29.12)

Happy Birthday to my dearest Oscar. To know him is to love him, and I’ve been loving him for 9 years straight. We should have a 10 year Anniversary Party for 2013. In the meantime, you can come to his

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BEHIND THE SCENES: Big K.R.I.T. & Va$htie x “Insomnia” Video Shoot (VIDEO)

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VIDEO: Tarik Adams – “Vashtie”

Yes, you read that right. The song is titled “Vashtie” I must say, having someone pen a song about you is a huge honor. It also makes me feel a little awkward, because I’m like “Me?!” – but, hell, I’ll

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WATCH: Pigalle Paris x Nike Stadium x “Barbes Basketball”

Check out this gorgeous film that my friend Stephane Ashpool from Paris initiated! I love how certain things like basketball are universal despite race, language, religion, sex and age. *STEPHANE ASHPOOL & VASHTIE (October 2007, Amsterdam – in front of

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WATCH: Karmaloop TV – Sweat The World – Young Entrepreneurs Starring Vashtie & John Geiger

Special thanks to John Geiger who asked me to do this episode with him.

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FOTO: My Favorite Flicks From The Open Party Years (2008-2010) with Q-Tip & Rich Medina (PART 1)

A trip down memory lane… In case you’re new to my blog or to New York City nightlife in general, let me tell you about THE OPEN PARTY. It was the Summer of 2008, Q-TIP and I decided to start something

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BEHIND THE SCENES: Time Out New York Most Stylish New Yorkers Shoot

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FILM: “Black Orpheus” Dir. Marcel Camus (1959)

I first stumbled upon this film when I was 14. At that time in my life, I spent every waking moment exploring worlds that were not readily available to me due to geographical, financial and circumstantial reasons. Basically, I didn’t

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DISCUSS: Un-Romancing The Horse And Carriage

*Aleksandr Petrovsky & Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex And The City” Right off the bat, you all know I’m definitely not the stereotype of a girl when it comes to most things…this also includes the topic of romance. I’ve never fantasized

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PRESS: Complex.Com – 12 Female Sneaker Personalities You Should Follow On Twitter – Vashtie

Complex.Com is headquarters for EVERYTHING cool, as if you need me to tell you that. Let’s just say, if my blog could date – Complex.Com would be my boo thang in cyberspace. So when I woke up to find that

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WATCH: Big K.R.I.T. – “Boobie Miles” – Directed By Vashtie (Trailer)

Sookie, sookie now. I can’t wait to share the full video with you guys, as well as the behind the scenes stuff of course.

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FOTO: Slumdog Millionaire Christmas

ELLE: (Busting out in uncontrollable laughter) Hahahahahahahaha. ME: What are you laughing at? ELLE: (Picking up a photo laying on my desk) This Indian Chipmunk Baby! Hahahahahaha. This will forever brighten up any bad day for me.  

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INTERVIEW: Time Out New York x Vashtie x Most Stylish New Yorkers (Tear)

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INTERVIEW: Time Out New York x Vashtie x Most Stylish New Yorkers (2.8.11)

Yes! Finally I made it into TIME OUT NEW YORK’S MOST STYLISH NEW YORKERS ISSUE!!! I look weird, but what can you do! Read the FULL INTERVIEW here!

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NEWS: It’s Black History Month

June 15th, 1921 – Bessie Coleman,  becomes the first Woman of African American Descent and the first Person of African American Descent  to hold an International Pilot License (bong, bong!) In honor of BLACK HISTORY MONTH, I’m only blogging about

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DISCUSS: Super Bowl XLVI x Giants Win x Madonna’s Halftime Show

I made Vladimir a custom Giant’s Shirt and he hated me for it (Taken with Instagram) Last night I held a small soiree for the Superbowl. At some point ELLE made a comment, “Vashtie, you know nothing about sports”. She

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VIDEO: My 4 Year Old God-Daughter Amaya Dancing

Watch her Grandfather show her some moves and looks what she busts out when he asks her if she has any moves to show him. I can’t believe how big she’s getting. Feels like just yesterday I was in The

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LIFE: Lonely Hotel Nights In Atlanta (1.31.12)

I love Atlanta. I need to stop visiting places when it’s only for work. Can’t wait to share the two projects that I’m doing down here with you guys. Until then, I’m listening to some 90’s Alternative Rock on my

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life: JASMINE SOLANO BIRTHDAY BASHMENT EXTRAVAGANZA x OPEN BAR BY HEINEKEN(1.25.12)

*MELO-X *HEINY *YOUNG SCOOZ *ISIS & HYUN NO PHOTOS OF MISS JASMINE SOLANO ON HER BORNDAY… BEACAUSE… …MY CAMERA DIED. OY VEY.

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SUPPORT: Janet Needs A Bone Marrow Donor

I just found this video of JANET who needs a BONE MARROW DONOR. Some of my readers my remember when our local girl JASMINA was in search of a donor. I blogged about going to the BONE MARROW DRIVE and

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INVITE: Kushed & Purrp x Smoke DZA & Space Ghost Purp x Hosted By Shiest Bubz and Music by J.Scott (1.23.11)

Ooooh, it’s tonight. Get your tickets here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4214705&REFERRAL_ID=twfb

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INVITE: Jasmine Solano’s Birthday Celebration x Max Glazer, Melo-X, DJ Fresh Direct, Vashtie, Vinny Picone & MORE!!! (1.25.11)

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LIFE: BTS Karmaloop Interview with John Geiger and Vashtie x Beauty And Essex Dinner & Victor Cruz

The homie John Geiger was being interviewed by Wahid Sweat for Karmaloop on his collection of Jordans. Somehow, I was added to the equation to chat about the illustrious brand Jordan. We continued the interview at Geiger’s favorite spot –

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life: Q-TIP & VASHTIE PARTY – SPECIAL GUEST AZEALIA BANKS, BU THIAM, LEBRON JAMES AND MORE!

Another Friday night with THE ABSTRACT. I would have posted these photos sooner, but my memory card has been playing me – losing photos and what not. I had to download a pricy program to recover these bad boys and

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happy birthday: ELLE CLAY (1.9)

You southern heifer. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! While you’re spending quality time with the fam-a-lam, shooting guns and drinking moonshine… Your uppity-yankee friends await your arrival so we may delve in some shenanigans and monkey business. PS: Here is your favoritest photo in

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foto: LIFE WITH VLADIMIR – THE RUSSIAN BLUE FRAIDY CAT

I really think if he could speak, these are some of the things he would say… “I’m a Giants fan, fool. Act like you know!” “I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death…” “I think EVERY LITTLE THING

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life: BIRTHDAY DINNER FOR JEN & JONNY AT BEAUTY & ESSEX – BUN B, CHRISTINA MILIAN, JOHN GEIGER, SHIEST BUBZ AND MORE (1.4.11)

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN O’NEIL & JONNY SHIPES (I LOVE MY CAPRICORN PEOPLE) Last we celebrated the birth of JEN O’NEIL & JONNY SHIPES over the ridiculously great food at BEAUTY & ESSEX. I came dressed especially unremarkable because the weather

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news: IT’S 2012…

If 1999 or 2000 wasn’t weird enough, here comes 2012. Like Whoa. It sounds like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. All I can think of is those videos from the 1950’s/1960’s where people projected what the future would look

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recap: VA$HTIE’S HOLIDAY CRAY x SHIEST BUBZ, CALLENDER, THE SMOKER’S CLUB, VIOLETTE, CINEMATIC MUSIC x SANTOS PARTY HOUSE (12.22.11)

On a rainy Thursday night, we set out to celebrate the holidays at our HOLIDAY CRAY party at SANTOS. HEINEKEN provided the open bar, KID ROBOT, THE SMOKERS CLUB and VIOLETTE filled the gift bags, PUSHA-T came to kick it

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