Sur La Rue: Naseya

Name: Naseya

Location: Washington, DC

What culture most influences your style: My style isn’t influenced by one particular culture. I’m mostly influenced by runway trends that can be translated into everyday pieces. I wear classic, tailored looks that can be versatile for work or play. My style has evolved tremendously from my tomboy days in middle school. As my personal style continues to develop I would like to experiment more with colors and patterns and add investment pieces and bold accessories.

Ideal Shopping Experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc): I absolutely love discovering new boutiques and shops wherever I go. There’s a thrill element to not knowing what you may find. Vintage shopping and thrifting seems to be the “in” thing at the moment, but its nothing new to me. Growing up in the midwest my mom was a regular seller and customer at high end consignment shops. I prefer consignment shops over thrift stores so I try find consignment shops in great neighborhoods for designer pieces at a fraction of the retail cost. I also do mall shopping for trendy pieces (H&M, Zara, Forever21, J.Crew) Occasionally I get lucky browsing the Rent the Runway section in TJ Maxx :)
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We aren’t named Casa di Culture for nothing. Every now and then we like to introduce other forms of cultural exchange and expression.

Check this interview with Washington, DC native Christylez Bacon who inherited his rhythmic sensibility from local DC Go-Go music which uses a lot of percussion, but has incorporated a mix of other cultures and customs to create a style all his own.

(Source: theangleshow.com)

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Opening Night of ‘Dandy Lion’ Exhibit

Last night marked the opening of the Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculine Identity exhibit at the Reginald E. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

The event was well attended by people from various age cohorts, and the exhibit itself was beautifully curated by Shantrelle Lewis. Six of the photographers were there last night to represent their works, and mingle with guests.

If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area, take time to discover the artistic community, cafes and shops that Baltimore has to offer.

Here are a few images from the installation.

Enjoy…and go visit for yourself to read about each artist and their respective subjects. It’s worth it!

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STREET STROLLING:

Just a mere 2 blocks from the White House in downtown Washington, DC, the tents housing the activists participating in ‘Occupy DC’ seem to have grown in numbers over the weeks.

I guess the movement is just beginning…

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Happen to be Washington DC ? - Event Today @ 7:30pm

I happened to come across this posting for this event, and thought I would share. I am unfamiliar with the organization, but if you find yourself in the Nation’s Capital, check it out!

School’s (Almost) Out Celebration

Benefiting the Generation Project

Thursday, June 9th, 2011, 7:30–10pm

Caramel is hosting The Generation Project’s School’s (Almost) Out For Summer Celebration!  The 2010-11 school year marks The Generation Project’s first full operational year.  To celebrate the collective impact on over 6,000 low-income K-12 students since launch, events will be held in Washington, DC, Chicago, Detroit, New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco.  View event details and purchase tickets at the Generation Project online.

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Sur La Rue: Tony

Name: Tony Gyepi-Garbrah

Location: Somewhere in between Dupont Circle and Logan Circle called Thomas Circle, Washington, DC (USA)

Which culture most influences your style: Winning! Clean lines mixed with American, British,  Prep, Pop,  My dad used to be a professor so I managed to jack a lot of his stuff, and of course take cues from him, along with my brothers and twin sister.

Ideal shopping experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc) and why: Vintage because you get to find diamonds in the rough. At times I find things that I can’t understand. I look at it as a Rubik’s cube or a piece to a puzzle that I need to solve i.e. figure out how to incorporate it in.

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Global Nomad: Kari Fulton

Kari Fulton is the co-founder of CheckTheWeather.net and is an award winning youth climate and environmental justice organizer from Denver, Colorado who now resides in Washington, DC. Fulton’s work advocating for a more just and equitable green movement has been featured on The Sundance Channel, in Elle and Glamour Magazine. ChecktheWeather.net (CTW) is a US-based online community and web platform that helps amplify the voice of young people of color in the US fighting for environmental justice as an attempt to diversify the green movement.

What is the most interesting discovery you have made since starting this project?
The never ending levels of environmental justice. Environment is a thing that most people do not pay attention to until it is in jeopardy but it impacts EVERYTHING we do. The most interesting “discovery” has been finding out all the ways communities of color, indigenous people and people who live in the global south are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation and climate change. We cannot even hardly discuss social justice issues without considering how pollutants like lead in water or lack of access to reliable transportation play a role in creating these issues.

Where do you see this project in 10 years?
In ten years Check the Weather will have paid staff and a national/international television show. We will also create a venue that will offer multi-level and multi-lingual curriculum. However I do hope that through this work we will be able to win some strong victories for sustainability and environmental justice so that we can have more progressive and uplifting stories to report.

When did you start traveling?
I started off as a domestic nomad quite early in life but I didn’t start gaining international experience and passport stamps till last December 2009. Since then I’ve traveled to 3 countries.

How and why did you travel for the first time?
The first time I left the country an ally organization bought me a plane ticket and I went to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also known as COP15.

In what places have you lived and what languages do you speak?
I have only lived in the United States thus far and speak rough Spanish and my own language I made up to speak when I get frustrated.

What’s your favorite city so far?
With all my travels I still love Washington, DC. It is a city with so much history and diversity. It’s also a great city for biking or public transit users. I love that there is always something going on and plays home for some of the smartest and most connected people in the world.

If you could only take one item with you to travel the world (other than your passport), what would it be?
My laptop, it’s a life saver!

Give us your global nomad profile:
window or aisle? Window
boat or plane? plane
train or bus? train
walk or bike? Bike
metro or trolley? Metro
tropical, temperate, polar? temperate
hotel, hostel or local’s apartment? hotel
must have fashion piece when traveling? A nice all-purpose scarf
explore/map or tour guide? explore/map

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Day Dreaming in DC

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