The broke & the fameless, by Smart Cookie

So, tonight, I was able to sneak my way into Fashion Week. I know, I should be frontin' like Threescoops just has it like that, but we keep it real here. Luckily, I had a major hookup and was given an unused name on "THE LIST". I avoided the black girl with a list like the plague and went to the white woman, lol. Ya'll all know damn well the black woman would have busted me out and called me on my fake name. I mean, how many black women do you know named Elizabeth? After telling the people with "THE LIST", that I was Liz __________, a marketing director, while sipping my free Chambord Manhattan, and talking on my Blackberry (you have to play the part)I was able to get in. It's amazing how after loads of dramatics, the show is really only about ten minutes long. However, I had a great time, and enjoyed the taste of the "good" life. While at Custo Barcelona's show, I ran into Michelle Williams, who was extremely friendly, but really that's no surprise, you can't sing gospel and be a bitch; That clearly would be unethical. After snapping a few photographs, me and Keith (who will soon be contributing to Threescoops...stay tuned) were able to manuever our way to the third row!

But after ten short minutes of being rich and famous, I returned to my normal life, and the harsh reality of the fact that seriously, there weren't any black people there. And that is really quite upsetting that we are not rightly represented in an industry that we obviously have more than a great influence on. Ofcourse Diddy and Russell Simmons were at Zac Posen, but other then them, me and keith, there were only sprinkles of African-Americans there, and half of them were passing out flyers at the door. With that said, get on your hustle, and don't be taken advantage of. African-Americans have so much influence on fashion, music, pop culture, etc. If we were to just start taking ownership of our ideas and realizing our power, we could really turn the tables. We should be running things, and we can.

Sorry, I had to turn a simple hookup story into a lecture, but it's black history month, what do you expect.

Fight the Power!

ps. Kudos to Keith for manuevering the hell out of the tents, I owe you one!