Videography: Beyoncé

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

In the post-millennial pop culture landscape, there is one name that stands a stiletto taller than the rest: Beyoncé.

From Vogue to Vinyl: Music’s Fashion-Forward Album Covers

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Whether its supermodels posing on the sleeve, renowned photographers behind the lens or just rock stars banging anything that catwalks, music and fashion have long been intimate bedfellows. Here, 30 iconic album covers with a delightfully high fashion twist. 

Got the Rolly on My Arm and I’m Pouring Chandon: A History of Labels in Lyrics

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

It seems like you can’t turn on the radio, or more realistically open up your Pandora, without hearing some serious name-dropping in your favorite tunes.  But label-whoring in lyrics goes way back in the day before Kanye West was the Louis Vuitton Don and Gwen Stefani‘s Harajuku-mania. 

Queen Elizabeth II — Her Royal Fierceness, Vidal Sassoon Goes to the Big Salon in the Sky and Kim Kardashian Allegedly Banned from the Met Ball

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- While her high-profile, high-drama courtroom saga is now over, we can finally reflect on what really mattered during the Linda Evangelista child support trial: her FAAAAAABULOUS wardrobe. [NYT]

- Jourdan Dunn will be cooking with Hov. The Brit beauty tweeted that she’ll be appearing on Jay-Z‘s website, Life and Times – never heard of it till now — where she’ll be doing a cooking segment. [Modelinia]

- Kate Middleton who? For the State Opening of Parliament this morning, Queen Elizabeth II showed the Duchess of Cambridge how to royally turn it. Everyone else, just drink it in. This is what amazing looks like. [Styleite]

Baz Luhrmann Brings Elsa Schiaparelli & Miuccia Prada Together, Beyoncé’s “Crazy” Baby Talk and Yohji Yamamoto’s Film Debut

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- Christina! Bring me the heels! Steel your nerves and hide the wire hangers to take a peek inside Joan Crawford‘s shoe closet. [Stylelist]

- In anticipation of The Costume Institute‘s upcoming “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” exhibit, Vogue threw some models in Prada collections from spring 1996 to fall 2011. [Vogue]

Nicki Minaj Steals Blue Ivy’s Thunder in Vogue

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

While Vogue explores Nicki Minaj‘s costumed place front row at shows like Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera (“so regal and special”), FashionIndie explores photographer Steven Klein‘s blue shot (photoshop or makeup?) in the March issue. Trying to get in the family with Beyoncé and Jay-Z? Auditioning for the Blue Man Group? Battling Katy Perry for the role in Smurfs 2? If not on the pages of Vogue, where does this cerulean Nicki Minaj belong?

Jay-Z to Rock on Air for Rocawear with New TV Ad

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

After firing half of its employees last month, Rocawear is rebounding with a Lucite crib full of licenses and a new marketing strategy featuring none other than the man behind it all, one Mr. Shawn Jay-Z Carter Knowles. 

INDIE NEWSROOM: Grace Coddington, the Model Years…Beckham Kicking His Way onto Super Bowl…Karlbob Lagerfeldpants

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- Grace Coddington was quite the stunner back in her day. Karen Elson who? [Nowness]

Baby Blue Ivy Carter is a Star! Already Featured in New Jay-Z Song, Glory

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Glory! Jay-Z serenades his baby Blue Ivy for all of us to hear. And she serenades us back! Her first cries have been immortalized in this song that Hova whipped up and had produced by Pharrell. Lyrics like “Baby I paint the sky blue, my greatest creation was you,” and “You’re the child of destiny, you’re the child of my destiny, you’re my child with the child from Destiny’s Child. That’s a hell of a recipe,” kind of make melt my heart.  

INDIE NEWSROOM: Roberto Cavalli’s Spring Campaign Crammed with Supers…Barbie Kardashian and her Dream Sham Wedding…Blue Ivy Carter Supposedly Not the Only Baby Born This Weekend

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- Daphne Groeneveld is stomping with the big girls now. The 17-year-old holds her own with superstar supermodels Naomi Campbell, Kristen McMenamy and Karen Elson – who are collectively 1,245 years old — for Roberto Cavalli‘s spring 2012 campaign, shot by Steven Meisel. [Vogue UK]