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A Lesson in Geography and Modesty

There’s nothing like a worldly person to remind you you’re not.

When I meet Merveille Kasongo, her body language reads like one of those signs on the back of a semitruck that warn: “Stay back 200 feet.” Her arms remains locked at her sides and without smiling she looks directly at me with big dark eyes lined with lashes so thick I wonder how they could be real. My brassy American sensibilities are, of course, injured.

The Southern Sartorialists: a photo essay

Photography by Chia Chong Words and Styling by Libbie Summers for her book Sweet and Vicious –baking with attitude Video by Red Velvet Partners and Barrera Productions Fashion Styling by […]

Gifts For the Spoiled Dog

Speaking in a raspy voice that only a mother or lover would like –renown dog style expert, McGuire (Maggie) Jo Summers, stopped licking herself just long enough to give us her top three gift picks for this holiday season.