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Solange Knowles:
A True Original
On Her Wedding Day

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Image by Rog Walker

By now you’ve almost certainly seen the pictures of Solange Knowles and her long-time boyfriend, now husband Alan Ferguson on their wedding day. Their wedding was the shot heard around the world. So stunningly authentic and original were these nuptials, from the everyday glorious juxtaposition of Solange’s fierce natural and Alan’s equally fierce beard, to Solange’s regal cape dress, to the eco boho swag of arriving to wherever they were going (reception perhaps?) on wedding white bikes, to the cavorting through the heady streets of New Orleans, where the living may not be easy, but it sure is good.

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Afrodisiac

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I love an afro. And I love a woman who’s badass enough to wear an afro bigger than her head. I love the crowning glory of it. I love how modern and fresh an afro looks, even as it references an earlier era when women like Angela Davis and Alice Coltrane sported afros that dared you, in Davis’s case, to declare them anything but beautiful, or in Coltrane’s case, that beckoned you close to experience her beauty as well as your own.

The afro was the quintessential emblem of the Black Is Beautiful era. It reminded the entire world that, as Seal sang, “every single one of us is beautiful”, whatever the color of our skin or the texture of our hair.

And now for a few of my favorite fros:

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The Revelry [Week’s Best]

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THE REVELRY [WEEK’S BEST] explores some of the week’s best social & cultural finds from around the Web.

MR. PORTER
Interview with Photojournalist and Change-Maker Mr. Sebastian Meyer
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Natalie Massanet was on to something when she founded Net-A-Porter, the online luxury retailer wrapped in a media brand. She understood that she wasn’t just selling clothes, she was selling a story. Massanet followed her first stroke of genius with another, the Net-A-Porter brother site, Mr. Porter. This week, on Mr. Porter The Journal, Mr. Chris Elvidge interviews Photojournalist and Change-Maker, Mr. Sebastian Meyer who has lived in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, since 2009. He runs Metrography, Iraq’s first photography agency, which he helped establish and which now represents more than 60 photographers. In the Mr. Porter interview, Mr. Meyer speaks eloquently about empowering a nation of photographers, the curiosity that fuels his work, and the upside of letting romance lead the way. Read interview here.

T MAGAZINE
The Place|California’s Central Coast
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T Magazine, The New York Times Style Magazine, has a wonderful spread in its Travel Fall 2012 edition on California’s Central Coast. The four-parter, written by Tanvi Chheda,  introduces the young, talented winemakers (a few still under 30) pushing the boundaries of winemaking in more experimental Paso Robles, with acclaimed results, and showcases an array of Central Coast gems, from  inns and restaurants, to artisanal food you can sample right on the farm, to the slew of wineries and the local-centric restaurants that have sprouted up in the midst of the verdant farmland of the Central Coast. Read articles here.

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