SHEREEN Fuqua

“Today is too much about ethnicity. I was raised to be beautiful within and pick up your bootstraps and keep going. Feeling pretty was a challenge for me. But now being 60 years old, I feel gorgeous! I’m proud to have had a successful career, I built a world class training horse farm, designed and published my homes, supported the USEF as a Title Sponsor of multiple national championships, and developed GumBits, chewing gum for horses. Self-made, my ambition came from movies, and dreams I created as a little girl. From Diana Ross in Mahogany, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in Sabrina, in Funny Face and Scarlett O’Hara character in Gone with the Wind, coupled with the grace of Jackie O’s real life tragedy ... these women are beautiful, and influence my style.” fivestoryny.com

On photographer Nigel Barker: “He is a professional, intense, focused, and observing every detail. He’s an artist that doesn’t allow a stroke to go off in the wrong direction. He’s a perfectionist who can change in a snap showing compassion and patience to get that shot. Simple is elegant, strong and willful is powerful. Honesty and humbleness are beautiful. Being a mother of a polite nice girl is beautiful too.

Orange Dress provided by FiveStory New York www.

Black Dress by Koltson designed by Roberto Rodriguez

Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry amber and golden beryl drop earrings, $12,675, shsilver.com

Self-proclaimed Southern Belle Venita is a force to be reckoned with. A jack-of-all-trades, newcomer Venita went to culinary school and is a full time model and influencer known around Charleston for her glamour, immaculate parties, and her head-to-toe perfect outfits. Venita infuses southern flair into everything she touches, a skill she got from her Mom Vi, who is Venita’s best friend and role model. She is a big star of Bravo’s “Southern Charm” television show.