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Solange Knowles Performs For Vitiminwater x FaDER’s #Uncapped Series In NYC

vitaminwater And The FADER Present uncapped With Solange Knowles

Solange Knowlwes usually rocks festival stages, however recently Solange headlined an intimate gig at a laundrette as part of vitaminwater collaboration with The FADER’s #uncapped series. New York’s Atlantis Super Wash Center in Brooklyn became a neon-lit venue complete with pop up stage as the “TONY.” singer performed a set which included cuts lifted from the EP True as well as a few of tracks lifted from her soulful back catalogue and included a fitting cover of Nivea’s Laundromat thrown in for good measure. Watch Solange work the stage for her audience below.

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Cassie Performs Live At 106 and Park

Cassie stops by 106&Park to perform Beyonce’s favourite song of the moment and current single, King of Hearts. Check out how the Laurianne Gibson choreographed performance went after the jump.

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Culture Fashion

Cassie Talks Fashion With Italian Vogue

Cassie invites Italian Vogue Scott Lipps inside her New York pent house apartment, for a interview complete with a tour of her walk in closet which was originally a bedroom. Cassie talks to Italian Vogue about her latest single King of Hearts, what she wears for various different events as well as modelling a few looks featuring a mixture of fashion contributions by Christian Loboutin, YSL, Balenciaga, Diane Von Furstenberg, Topman and more. Check out the full Italian Vogue feature below.

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Fashion Photography

Photography for V Magazine : Naomi Campbell Private Dancer

Absolute perfection, Naomi Campbell for “V” Magazine homage to TIna Turner in their Feb/March 2012 Issue, the Tina Turner-inspired photoshoot was directed super talented Daniele + Iango and styling Joane Blades.

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Photography for V Magazine : Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez has been duking it our as a pop cultural fixture since her early days as a fly girl with a slew of new projects in the works. Not to mention a budding romance with a man nearly 20 years her junior titillating the tabloids. The newly separated mother musician and mogul admits that’s she’s learned how to take a hit or two. She looks as fit as ever in this photo shoot directed by Mario Testino, Our fashion God Mother Carine Roitfeld was the “stylist”

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Video

Cassie King Of Hearts

Cassie gives fans a hot Valentines day gift in the form of the full video for King Of Hearts.

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Culture Interview Music Swag

V Magazine Interview : Azealia Banks – One In A Million

V Magazine got the chance to have the Super talented Azealia Banks for an interview. Busting Out the “212” with Raw Rap talent and a stunning singing voice to match, Azealia Banks isn’t out to take anyone’s Trophy. She’s here to change the Game. Get ready to become obsessed with Miss Banks. Check out the full entry on V magazine The magazine will hit newsstands everywhere beginning March 1, so pick it up if you get the chance.

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Cassie V Magazine Pop Rocks: Fearless Women Of Music 2012

Cassie, Solange and VV Brown are featured in V magazines Pop Rocks feature, celebrating five fearless women of music described as being ” smarter,franker and less false.” the women talk recording, production, the meaning, mood and message behind their music due to be released in 2012 check out a snippet of the images and some pull quotes from the feature below.

CASSIE

“I have hundreds of songs recorded for this album. I’ve been working on it for a long time. Finally, I had to decide my direction. I felt kind of exposed when I stopped working in the studio. My friends would call me to hang out and I would say, ‘nope, going in the studio,’ and they’d say, ‘you’ve been in the studio for four years!’ At the time I made the record I went out to Ibiza and I really started to feel these jungle beats. But at the same time I wanted to keep the ‘Me and U’ tone, really simple and clean. I have a lot of friends who are DJs and they like to mix, so I like to leave a really clean skeleton with the vocal. In my video we called it ‘giving ’90s supermodel.’ It’s the perfect definition of who I am right now and what I’m going through. People aren’t going to expect me to come out with what I have.”

The combination of these new influences with her clean style adds up to a perfect sum of what Cassie is all about this year. “In my video we called it ‘giving ’90s supermodel.’ It’s the perfect definition of who I am right now and what I’m going through,” she says, smiling. “People aren’t going to expect me to come out with what I have.”

Cassie wears
Dress Theyskens’ Theory
Jewelry her own

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Interview

Solange In V Magazine Pop Rocks: Fearless Women Of Music 2012

Cassie, Solange and VV Brown are featured in V magazines Pop Rocks feature, celebrating five fearless women of music described as being ” smarter,franker and less false.” the women talk recording, production, the meaning, mood and message behind their music due to be released in 2012 check out a snippet of the images and some pull quotes from the feature below.

SOLANGE
“There are a lot of songs about sex. It’s the kind of record you put on when your man is coming over, when you’re with your girls. There are songs that make you wanna dance because we were kind of partying our way through the record, but it’s very chill. My references for the record were all Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, not just their typical Janet and Prince stuff, but SOS Band and their b-sides with Chaka Khan. At first the songs were really dark because I had a premonition before the record that I was going to die. I was having panic attacks and wiling out. [But] I don’t need anyone telling me ‘this isn’t cool enough’ or anyone from the opposite end saying ‘this seems kind of weird.’ I’m lucky enough to have been in this business for so long that I know how it works. It’s not that hard. It’s not rocket science.”

Solange Knowles wears
Jacket Bess NYC by Doug Abraham
Shirt Jil Sander Navy

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VV Brown In V Magazine Pop Rocks: Fearless Women Of Music 2012

Cassie, Solange and VV Brown are featured in V magazines Pop Rocks feature, celebrating five fearless women of music described as being ” smarter,franker and less false.” the women talk recording, production, the meaning, mood and message behind their music due to be released in 2012 check out a snippet of the images and some pull quotes from the feature below.

VV BROWN
“My second album has a message: it’s about my generation and things going on in the world, but I didn’t want it to come across preachy. I love writing upbeat songs with darker undertones. Sometimes you want to shy away from political things because people will tell you to leave that to the politicians, but I want my fans to hear a message that is about questioning the world and getting them to question what fame is. I find it difficult to even say the word ‘fan.’ We’re all the same. As a generation, let’s evolve and shift away from celebrity culture, I think it’s really unhealthy.”

VV Brown wears
Top DKNY