while working at ISLAND DEF JAM as DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE SERVICES in 2006, this photo was taken on set of a photoshoot for YOUNG JEEZY and USDA. before they arrived, the photographer was getting ready and needed a similarly colored…

i love how these interviews and behind the scenes shots were taken and edited! check it at RACHELROY

EUGENE KAN of HYPEBEAST interviews HARRY MCNALLY (1/4th of the brand PEGLEG NYC). you might recognize YOUNG SCOOZLE aka SCOTT WILLIAMS – part-time VIOLETTE model and PEGLEGNYC member! peep the full interview here… *photos by MARLEY-KATE. *SCOTT WILLIAMS, BOBBY WALTZER,…

i love getting stuff in the mail – the real mail. one of VIOLETTES best buyer, HIROSHI in JAPAN, sent me goodies from his wife’s line – VOTAN TOKYO. it’s super ka-wa-eee! super mucho KONICHIWA to both of them… also…

a few months ago, SUZETTE LEE photographed me for YOSHI’S BLOG – LADYLIKE. it was a quick and fun shoot and this little lady SUZETTE took some of the best photographs i ever done seen of myself. it’s giving me…”biker…

remember the photoshoot i was on for the RACHEL ROY LOOKBOOK featuring “IT GIRLS” that i was apart of back in DECEMBER? if you don’t, PEEP IT HERRE. well, it’s out! i woke up to an 8am delivery to stacks…

my sweetest baby, my god-daughter AMAYA!!! she’ll be here in the beginning of APRIL and i can’t wait! we’re eating strawberries and watching SPONGE BOB all darn day!

i ordered CITIKITTY, this PURR-FECT product (haha) that trains your kitty to use the toilet with a litter tray that sits in your toilet. week after week, you remove a perforated ring until the tray is no longer needed. within…

yes, indeed…i am in fact on many billboards in NEW YORK city and a few major cities. TANQUERAY has launched a community of bloggers that feature the likes of TALIB KWELI, COLTRANE CURTIS, MARIEL HAENN, FONZWORTH BENTLEY and more! to…

GRACE! make JAMAICA happen or come to NEW YORK soon! we need to gossip, drink cappuccinos and laugh about the rubbish “cool trends” our respective country churns out and how other countries eat it up!

can’t show too much…but here’s a “lil” bit. *i didn’t realize “the boys” were out until i saw these pictures – it made me a uneasy. i spent a lifetime covering them up and now all hell has broke loose.…

when JOHN GOTTY at the SMOKING SECTION asked little ol’ me to compile a list of favorite tracks that i have on my ipod, i didn’t hesitate. little did i know i would spend the next couple days stressed over…

yes, i changed the category of “CONVERSATIONS” to “CONVERSATE”…just because, “conversate for a few…” might be the best error in hip hop! the new COOL KIDS music is too cool for school! CHUCK is a beat making monster that could…

this was an excellent feature, although there were a few errors. here are the corrections: 1. i’m 15 years old, not 28 2. OSCAR SANCHEZ not DJ JUNIOR SANCHEZ 3. i don’t drink vodka, maybe the occasional wine or champagne…

my good friend KARL JUSTIN re-launched his website today…he is a great stylist and dazzled the recent VIOLETTE lookbook. he has also styled me for events and takes his old buddy as seriously as when he styled JADA PINKETT-SMITH! always…

i always hated this effect, “thermal camera”, and i equally disliked it when people used it…then i turned it on and spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what were the factors that changed certain yellows to red, etc. soon…

he doesn’t like cats, but he tolerates VLADIMIR because he’s mine and because he’s a hood dude. RAUL: how’s VLADIQUEER ME: he’s good, you bitch RAUL: he looks like foxy brown with that coat, he’s banjee like that ++++++++++ kitty…

the world isn’t ready because you’re light years ahead! they will soon “ACCEPT THE NEW”. celebrations when you get back my friend! *photo by MEL D. COLE (SANTOS 2009) *practice your moves and write songs about them…

awwww, my bestie OSCAR is celebrating his birthday with his twin brother OMAR. peep how fly the flyer is, designed by O himself. i will be there dressed to kill (which means i’ll wear something clean and not recycled!). music…

shooting on a BOLEX with 16mm film was so nice. i used to shoot my skateboarding friends, because the sport looked so elegant on film. I was also in the beginnings of shooting a documentary, which got sidetracked. may pick…

*stretched ear lobes, thin eye brows and my signature man style. those were the days! ANGELO took these quick flicks while we were working on a cold day at STUSSY NYC (when the store was on WOOSTER).

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For Violette’s Winter 2009 Release you will find a line of tees inspired by HOOD KIDS that are in tune with GOTH STYLE. It’s a mix of opposite worlds, “the projects meets the ‘burbs”. It’s that kid from Brooklyn who…

not sure if that is a foreign mom thing, but it makes me giggle every time and she only starting doing it after i moved away. it took almost my entire life for us to finally get along to a…