Giambattista Valli for Impulse only at macy’s Launch Issue April 2012 Cover Stories Kalyn Hemphill An interview with Project Runway model winner 75 The Fall Collection New York Fashion Week Sneak Preview 23 AD Author Lindsey Isham On Relationships and Her Book “No Sex In The City” 65 Adam Burt Chaplain to Linemen: From Professional Hockey Player to a Family Man 85 Beaded Jump Rope Burn Up to 1000 Colaries Per Hour 102 Dress By Luminaa LLC By Luminaa LLC 5 Graceful Chic / Launch Issue 2012 The Lasting Sheer® Collection Ultra Sheer The NewsBoys In Central Park 81 Fashion Reflection Everyday Women 103 Fun Fience Fabulous 13 Faith and fashion, 29 Nicola Curry Fashion Styles Chrisianity and Catwalk: Do 43 Raychael Arianna these two Meet? 20 The Legend Lives on: 53 Lindy Leiser Alexander MacQueen 59 Sara Presley Resort Collection Beauty 73 Caprice Taylor 31 Coye Nokes’s Queen of the 55 Makeup 101: 93 Andromedo Turre Nile Shoe Collection 5 Tips to keep your face in 99 Melissa Peraldo place all day long 33 Ode to the Little Black Dress 56 Lip Gloss: Winter TLC NUTRITION Soft, sensual and luxuriously beautiful. 37 95 Filling up with Fiber: New York, New York: Exceptional sheerness Easy Casual Styles for 63 Inner Beauty: Four Simple Swaps everyday in the big city Mirror Mirror on the Wall 97 Spice Spotlight: Ginger with run resistant confidence. “I feel ugly today” 43 Fashion Bargain It’s Ultra Sheer perfected! Shopping Tips 119 Home is where the story 51 Relationships begins: The festive, easy Fashion Jewelry for Freedom brunch with friends by WAR Inter’l 70 To Date or Not to Date 36 Do you speak fashion?: 71 Blind Dation: 123 Fashion History Also available in Silky Sheer and Sheer Tights Fashionista lunguage in My Kiss and Tell Stories What would Eve Say? minutes 7 Graceful Chic / Launch Issue 2012 Tulani Bungane Managing Editor & Publisher Beverly Guy Executive Editor Jacob Johnson Lisa Constantini Darcy Plimption-Sims Arts Director Fashion & Beauty Editor Editor at Large Tulani Bungane Delaina Dixon Asher Fogle Designer Maureen Martin Entertainment Editor Market Fashion Editors Judith Bottiger Aaron Taylor Tiffani Credle Logo Designer Ben Peterson Associate Fashion Editor Photographers Writers & Contribuutors Laura Heller, Tondra Gregory, Andrea Zanin, Wanda Mann, Cindee Pratt, Amanda Rucker, CJ Hines, Pamela Scurry, Leslie Herring, Aaron Horton, Hallie Neill, Bethany Ramos, Arriel Ginter, Lindsey Isham, Carol Ball, Stacey Faryna, Pamela Simmons, Victor Rodriguez, Beverly Guy, Lisa Constantini, Asher Fogle Social Media Perla Nava, Kaitlin Kovary Spring 2012 9 Graceful Chic / Launch Issue 2012 www.tribal-inc.com Editorial note up-and-coming designers. We’ll also place special help with topics such as focus on beauty fundamentals, such as how to get self-esteem and anger that silky smooth skin, as well as bring you tips and much more. We’ll from makeup insiders. From achieving those gor- also bring you news geous lips and luscious eyelashes to how to wear about your favorite the coolest nail trends, we’ll show you how to care Christian celebrities and for and play up your best features. their red carpet looks at the Dove Awards and This will be spiced up with inner beauty, which other major events. The is an essential component of our worldview. We Everyday Women like approach style and every other topic remember- you that we’ll feature ing that we are all unique, intricate and beautiful celebrate all types of individuals; because of that our fashion choices beauty—inside and out. Mandisa and Ruben Standard at Dove Awards 2011. become expressions of the beauty inside of us and Photo by Moses Robinson - Getty Imges we care for our bodies as sacred temples. When it comes to dating and relationships, we’ll offer a candid In addition to fashion spreads and beauty tips, perspective on the challenges each issue will be packed with useful fitness and when it comes to sex and living nutrition articles, a life of purity while navigating the often confusing world of men. Right: Instead of brushing the subject Bagley under the carpet, we’ll empower Mishka you by giving you ideas on how Bridal to enjoy life as a single, develop 2012 healthy relationships and pursue that blissful marriage. We’ll also introduce you to guys who are New York Fashion Week - The Fall living these values. Collection p 23 Fun, Fierce Fabulous rom the runways in Milan, Paris and Fashion P 103 New York to your local discount stores, we at Graceful Chic hope to bring you In addition to our print magazine, you’ll F a fresh take on fashion. While we’ll find more fun and informative stories explore the latest in apparel, accessories on our website: check it out at www. and makeup, we’ll also dig into issues that affect gracefulchic.com. We’d love to hear your your inner beauty—all a woman needs to be both feedback and suggestions on how we can graceful and chic. make Graceful Chic a magazine that will help you live with both grace and style. After months of anticipation and delays we’re Join us as we embark on this journey—to excited to finally present you with a sample of our a place where inner beauty meets style! work. The complete issue is already underway and will be available in a couple of months. Let the fun begin! We’ll look at the latest trends, shopping strate- Cover and Feature Photos. Courtesy of Kalyn Hemphill gies and styling ideas, as well as delve into fashion Andromedo Turre: history and give profiles of both legendary and Everyday Women Profiles The Editorial Team 11 Graceful Chic / Launch Issue 2012 Launch Issue 2012 / Graceful Chic 12 Reflection Faith & Fashion, The tension between Christian values and fashion That said, it seems largely unrealistic to suppose a transcends an individual’s religious convictions.In woman can function as an interactive member of many circles, fashion has come to symbolize vanity, society without … um … wearing clothes. materialism and extravagance. In seeming contrast, And does God really expect us to walk around in Christianity & Catwalk Christian principles condone an attitude of modesty, sackcloth as a symbol of our submission? As fashion humility and sensibility. has evolved over the years, women of all beliefs have Can These Two Co-exist? had to adapt their standards to suit the social and As women, we feel pressured to conform to the stylistic contexts in which they live. By Andrea Zanin world’s measure of beauty, which is commandeered by fashion and often demands an unrealistic stan- Christians believe that God has given a set of values dard of physical perfection. It is therefore not merely by which to conduct their lives: the Bible. Much of “believers” who struggle to exist in a world of beauty what this book says about appearance provokes heat- and Botox, but women of all convictions (moms, ed debate within Christian circles—some interpret ow short is too daughters, professionals, students, housewives, gran- and apply these principles more liberally, others more H short? What sort nies and aunties … all women) who wish to embrace conservatively. Contention can surround an issue as of bathing suit is style and its relative expression without succumbing “old fashioned” as a woman’s desire to wear “men’s” appropriate for a to a fashion-inspired spirit of moral decay. clothing (such as pants), a practice that is prohibited church pool party? What in the Old Testament and is But is it right to blame the defines an outfit that’s too “Never lose an opportunity of see- often still considered unac- “big bad beast” of fashion ceptable by more conservative suggestive, too attention- for society’s penchant ing anything that is beautiful, for Christians. A more current dis- grabbing or demeaning? for the perfunctory? In beauty is God’s handwriting – a agreement has developed over While the exact questions short: no! British socialite wayside sacrament. Welcome it in the issue of pop culture icons’ change in step with fash- and writer Jennie Jerome and musicians’ names and ion trends, the underlying Churchill observed, every fair face, in every fair sky, in likenesses printed on clothing. issues are the same: What “There is no such thing as L]LY`MHPYÅV^LYHUK[OHUR.VK Band tees are a great example; are the standards by which a moral dress. It’s people for it as a cup of blessing.” to some Christians, wearing we judge what we and oth- who are moral or im- a Coldplay shirt amounts to ers wear? What principles moral.” Fashion, in and of idolatry and or even paganism, itself, is objective … but it Ralph Waldo Emerson should guide a woman of but to others it’s a mere “Hey, is subjectively practiced. (19th-century American essayist, faith as she gets dressed? this is my favorite band and I In other words, fashion lecturer and poet) am letting y’all know!” It gets can be manipulated and complicated. Within the context of mod- morphed to suit each ern society, Christianity and woman’s belief system. But engaging in argument rarely achieves anything fashion are often though as productive in the quest to practically reconcile fash- antithetical. This opposition Millennia after Adam and Eve donned fig leaves ion and Christianity within the context of modern seems inherent: the superfi- to hide their shame, practicality has lost its mojo: living. So, in the name of “keeping it real,” there is ciality stereotypically associ- popular culture has made fashion about art and one biblical principle that sums up all of God’s guide- ated with the world of fashion expression.