Richard Chai: Professional Beauty

Many designers have a signature style. When you see a preppy look coming down the runway, it's probably Tommy Hilfiger. If an elegant gown appears, it's most likely Coco Chanel. Richard Chai's signature is his versatility. You see billowy, flowing material, then expertly tailored blazers and blouses next. He uses bright colors and muted tones to bring a little bit of everything to the table.

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Rene Caovilla: Those Who Craft Glass Slippers

When you were a kid, did you want to wear Cinderella's glass slipper? Were you elated by Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the “Wizard of Oz?” Did you just want to feel and breeze through your day with no worries like a princess? Do you still have that yearning? If so, let me point you toward the Italian brand and luxury fashion designer Rene Caovilla.

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Beatrice Dixon: Success is Sweeter

“The reason why it’s so important for Honey Pot to do well is so the next Black girl that comes up with a great idea, she can have a better opportunity. That means a lot to me,” said Beatrice Dixon, founder of the Honey Pot Company, when describing the vision behind her plant-based feminine care line, in a Target commercial, highlighting Black entrepreneurs.

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Atlanta Tattoo Arts Convention: Express Yourself

When I first entered the massive lobby that held the Atlanta Tattoo Arts Convention, I wondered if I was hearing bees. The “zzz” of electric tattoo guns filled the air. As someone with no tattoos, I felt out of place at first as I wandered through the room, past table after table covered with thin black cloth and plastic scrapbooks filled with samples of artists’ work. There is no replacement for a tattoo - nothing else is both permanent and customizable. It’s art you commit to for the rest of your life...unless you get a cover-up, of course.

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Mass Movement: A Pop Art Show

Popular culture has always influenced artistic trends and styles. The genre of Pop art was conceived by forefather Andy Warhol and his infamous Campbell Soup cans that he depicted in the cans true form and simultaneously reimagined in varying neon shades. Critics of Warhol attacked his art as regurgitations of familiar imagery, lacking originality, character, or inspiration. Viewers despised Warhol’s artwork for precisely the same reason that people enjoy it in modern society today. He harnessed cultural iconography and warped it into something that pushes the viewer to challenge their preconceived notion of what a cultural symbol truly signifies.

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Ryland James: “In My Head”

Soulful, gut-wrenching notes sound atop deep, dark piano chords, in Ryland James’ “In My Head.” The nineteen-year-old singer/songwriter from Ontario, Canada has gone from making covers on Youtube to performing on stages in Canada, the U.S., and even traveling to the U.K. With his mature voice, this young talent is just starting off his musical career.

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