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MOI Issue 11

May/June/July 2021

FASHION • MUSIC • SPIRITS • CULINARY

Top Fashion Designer Aaron Michael Dangerous Liaisons

Stylist Jeanette Netherland Jewelry Artist Chester M Allen

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Well, it was Covid 19 that kept us away for 2020, Covid changed us in so many ways, including MOI Magazine on socializing, photo shoots and communicating. It was very difficult to keep going for 2020. We had so many ideas but we could not proceed, as social distance and mandated rules would not permit, but finally the show can go on, as many do , we miss our friends and family and are excited about announcing MOI-magazine No 11. I am excited to have worked with Makeup Artist and Stylist Jeanette Netherland. Her vision is definitely cool and fun. Hey styling with the Dangerous Liaison showed awesome potential of producing cool styling including the photo shoot with fashion designer Aaron Michael. Jeanette and Myself selected Aaron Michael as Top Designer for issue No 11. So keep an eye out designer Aaron Michael and Makeup Artist and Stylist Jeanette Netherland. Stacia R Jinks. is a model to look out for, she has already done New Orleans Fashion Week in 2019 and a couple of runway shows on the coast. She is also Moi’s-Magazine No 11 front cover model. We expect to see her model with Moi-magazine in future photo shoots as well. Another cool creative model is Lauren Goodes represented by Chic Nouvelle MTM. Lauren has been everywhere in the New Orleans Fashion industry. We will definitely see Lauren in MOI magazine in the near future. Another great photographer Cedric Ellsworth who had a great photoshoot with Jewelry Designer Chester M Allen. Chester M Allen has a unique jewelry styling. His jewelry designs carries a specific meaning, its a must see jewelry to see and visit. Cedric did an awesome job with his model Taylor LeDuff Moving forward, look out for new products coming soon from MOI magazine

Photoshoot for New Orleans Magazine Stylist & Fashion Editor: Tracee Dundas Model: Tracey Blades Makeup Artist: Pilar Miranda Hair Stylist: Holly Heymann Clothing: Himline Photographer: Gustavo Escanelle

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Editor-in-Chief Gustavo Escanelle Fashion Managing Editor Buick McKane Director of Photography Gustavo Escanelle EDITORIAL Contributing Writers Nicole Singson Contributing Photographers Cedric Ellsworth, Tom Pumphret Katie Barnett, Gustavo Escanelle CONTACT INFO Letters to the Editor: Modele@moi-magazine.com Designer/Model submissions: modele@moi-magazine.com TO ADVERTISE: modele@moi-magazine.com To Purchase, Please visit Online at: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/magazine/995184 Find us at moi-magazine.com Instagram: @moi_magazine, Facebook: moimagazineusa

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Model: Stacia R Jinks Photographer: Gustavo Escanelle MOI Makeup: Jeanette Netherland MOI Hair Stylist: Clint Delapasse Designer: Aaron Michael Location: New Orleans Mansion Tags: #moimagazine #moinola #moifashion All contents @COPYRIGHT 2021, MOI MAGAZINE, LLC, All RIGHTS Reserved. MOI magazine is a Register TRADEMARK. Any use of the contents of the publication without the written permission of the publisher is strictly prohibited. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. Some of the views expressed by contributors may not be the Representative views of the publisher.

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Feature Designers Aaron Michael

Model of the Month: Lauren Goodes

Jewelry Artist Chester M Allen by Photographer Cedric Ellsworth

Dangerous Liasons By

Stylist Jeanette Netherland

The photo was taken at the Palace of Duke’s, Model Lauren Goodes, Represented by Chic Nouvelle MTM, Photographer Gustavo Escanelle,

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Artist Chester M Allen Award winning Artist specializing in Metal and Jewerly Model: Taylor LeDuff Photographer By Cedric Ellsworth

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Free Spirit Necklace Representing Mind, Body and Spirit

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Free Spirit Necklace Representing Mind, Body and Spirit

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Unique Boho Chic Flower pedal-inspired Necklace

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Stepping out or stepping in Versatile Choker for work and play

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Strengthened by Struggle Silver and Black OnyxTeardrop Necklace Statement rings

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New Beginnings East-West Oval Moonstone pendant Graduated Ball Necklace

Classic Ball and Chain Can’t have one without the other

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Divine feminine, AfroFuturistic Gift for the modern woman

Strength to Greater Strength its all about The Blues!

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Neutral Ground is Higher Ground New Orleans inspired Jewelry

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Balance and Healing in a Beginning Turquoise and Moonstone Necklace

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Rose quartz....Healing and Harmony

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Necklace with the strength and movement

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Boho Chic, Afrofuturistically unique Bold Exchange of cowire shelle in silver and raw ammonite stone

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Avant-guard abstract one of a kind Malchite and Prehnite Love, Healing and Security

Model of the Month:

Lauren Goodes represented by Chic Nouvelle MTM

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Photo Shoot for MOI Magazine Stylist and Fashion Editor: Rowena Kay Model: Rachel Pizzolato Makeup and Hair: Rachel Pizzolato Clothing: Alamour The Label Booking Agency: Chic Nouvelle MTM Photo By: John Merrit Photography

Designer MOI magazine with Designer Emily Riche Model Ani Meish Studio G

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SUBMISSIONS We are happy to receive contributions & submissions connected to fashion - by Fashion Designers, Photographers, Filmmakers, Stylists, Make-Up Artists, Hair Stylists, Models, Artists and Authors. Furthermore we are also always on the look out for new and regular contributors. In your submission show us your best ideas, your creativity and your excellence. Email us at modele@moi-magazine.com Please read the submission guidelines below carefully! Our photography & editors will carefully appraise every submission and all published works will be individually layouted. The photographer will receive a PDF of the layouted editorial after the editorial has been published. Your submissions should: Connected to fashion & beauty not been published in any other magazine before Nudity should be implemented tastefully General Submission Guidelines: only PDF or JPG DPI 300 Credit for all clothing and everyone involved No logos are allowed on the photos. Signed Model Release Deadline for March Issue is July 15, 2021

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Stylist Jeanette Netherland Hair: Clint Delapasse Makeup Artist: Jeanette Netherland Models: Lauren Flannery Loryn Heitzmann Photographer: Katie Barnett

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Model Ashley Fruge Jewelry Designer: Vanessa Winchester Makeup Artist: Emy Deiparine Rome & Bryan Metoyer Photographer: Gustavo Escanelle Location: Studio VFW, New Orleans

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Q&A with Aaron Michael By Nicole Singson Stylist Jeanette Netherland Model: Stacia R Jinks Hair: Clint Delapasse Makeup Artist: Jeanette Netherland Photographer: Gustavo Escanelle Location: At Dukes Palace What got you into fashion? I grew up in a really small town in West Virginia…Every guy friend I had, wanted a really masculine job. They wanted to be a firefighter or a football player or something like that. And here I am, and I literally want to be Miss America! I loved [things] like the Academy Awards…and I will watch it for the fashion. Miss America, Ice skating, anything that had flashy, over the top gowns and dressed. That’s who I wanted to be. Until I realized I didn’t want to be the person that wears them. I wanted to be the person that makes them. Now granted that took a long time to finally come to that. But that’s what really started it. There’s that line from the Devil wears Prada; “I was the kid under the steps reading Harpers Bizarre while others kids were out playing football”. It’s so weird that line from the movie stuck with me because that’s how I felt. Even more so I started doing Drag about 20 years ago, and that was before Ebay, Amazon, and Alibaba so clothing was expensive for drag queens. If you wanted to make something, sequin fabric was more expensive than it is now. I had to learn to sew, so I did, and I’m glad that I did. You were part of fashion week here in New Orleans in 2019 pre-Covid….How has the Covid-19 restrictions affected your work if at all? And did you start to incorporate masks in your designs? I haven’t done masks and I’ll tell you why…I live my live in a pretty optimistic manner, tomorrow will be kinder. It may not be better but it will be kinder. I have made masks…I had all these fabrics and I was like you know I’m going to make masks [for} Ronald McDonald House, I did all of that. But I really like when things have an ending or conclusion and to look forward to that versus being stuck in something. I want to make something for 2021, I mean if you want a mask, Ill make you a mask with it. But I would hope everyone went and got

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vaccinated and played it smart so we can actually get back to a world where we can see people smile. I love that. So yeah, Covid though…business really died in march and April of last year. I took that time and I saved up money, I expanded my studio, I bought more dress forms so that I would have a range of sizes. So in my studio right now there is a 2, a 10, 24, 16, and a 6 dress form. And I loved that about your models for the New Orleans Fashion show as well! Yeah I really don’t think fashion is one size, I wanted to be able to sew for everybody. What is your stance on the current trend of sustainable fashion?.....The bandana dress on your IG, which I loved, is that actually bandana or “bandana fabric”? It was bandana fabric. I’ve repurposed tons of things like clothing of all sorts…When it comes to sustainability, I think a lot of the fabrics that are out there, I don’t think that we’ve reached that technology yet where these fabrics are conducive to doing what we would like them to do. Not only construction wise, but also the feel. There’s a company out of PA [that has] a line of fabric that’s made out of old shopping bags, like plastic bags. I think that’s great. However, it feels like tarps. Yeah, I can’t imagine that being comfortable. Nor can I! They say that it’s breathable, and while it may be breathable, you can say that if it’s like 10% breathable, you know…it just doesn’t sound functional to me. But I think we will get there. I really truly do. Like Coach just did a line of bags, and I kind of want one, that’s made of [repurposed shopping bags]. But they also say they’re water proof, so maybe it’s great for bags but not so much for a dress. What is your greatest achievement? Oh, that’s a hard one…I think my greatest achievement is actually…I work for myself. I get to live my dream. I don’t go to a 9-5 job to supplement my income as a fashion designer. I get to do fashion as a living. Now is it the perfect living? Is it the copious amounts of money that people often think? No, it’s not. But I get to wake up and do what I love every day and I would say that’s pretty damn big accomplishment. I absolutely agree! Some people ask why do you want to do this? I get to do my art every day and not have to deal with a boss what I can and cannot do. If you could choose any celebrity to design something for, who would it be? So many! I love Sarah Jessica Parker. And the reason I do is because she’s kind of like my modern Audrey Hepburn. She is this tiny little human with humble roots. I just think there’s something great about her…And this is going to sound nuts…But I’m all over the spectrum. Like I love SJP but it I also love Melissa McCarthy. And I see her on red carpets and I’m like “girl what are you doing?!” And I say that because I feel like sometimes people put people in boxes like “you always have to wear an empire waistline” or “you have to wear this color”. And the people who step out of those boxes are the ones we remember. Like Lizzo is a curvy girl, and does not give a F that she’s a curvy girl and will wear whatever she want’s and looks great in it! Fashion is not how clothes fit and what your body type is, it’s how you feel in those clothes. You can have the same black dress on ten different girls and one of those is going to stand out in that black dress. Not because it’s the most amazing black dress it’s because of the way she presents herself in that dress. If you own your look and you own who you are you can wear a garbage bag! When it comes to celebrities, God knows I would be happy to dress any of them. But SJP, Melissa McCarthy people like that I can relate to on a personal level, people that you want to be friends with. Those are the people I would want to dress. What has been most challenging for you in the fashion industry? Exposure. And I think that goes for anybody that’s an artist, whether you’re an actor or a painter. Any kind of traditional artist for that matter. Being recognized for what you do is extremely difficult because you are one

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person in a sea of so many. I’m a self-taught person. I didn’t go to fashion school. I didn’t have those connections. The connections that I made a lot of times were accidental. Like meeting Tracey from New Orleans fashion week happened via a person I had never met but followed me on Instagram. Sending you all clothes happened via Tracey…getting exposure is very difficult because like I said there’s one of me and millions of others that want to do the same thing. But I think there’s others that give up too easily and its very daunting. I mean, 4 years ago I was working at a hotel as the GM and going home and sewing every night. And realizing that I was working a 60-80-hour week. After New Orleans fashion week, and the success I had that year I was like, you know what? My rent is this much and my studio is this much. I need to do this, this and this. And I can live just as well as I am now because my quality of life was nothing. That all happened because of exposure…and confidence in yourself in what you’re doing to go anywhere. What runway shows do you want to be a part of? Everything I do is very localized. I love where I live. I want it to be better. I don’t want to get swallowed up into something that isn’t me, if that makes sense. I want New Orleans Fashion week to come back. I hope Tracey is able to do that. There was something about being there and meeting all of these people. Like one of the models that I had, Alexus, she was final look model. I love her. And I would have never met her or her mother or her little sister or any of them if it weren’t for New Orleans Fashion week. And I am a big proponent of it. It allowed me to put my toe in the water…it was just amazing. Honestly that’s what I’m looking forward to most. I want the success of our little bubble that we live in in the south to be good successes. Not ignorance and not awfulness that we so often see. Where do you see yourself in five years? I think if this year has taught as anything, sometimes long-term ideas…sometimes get hindered. The one thing I will say is, where I hope to see myself is sitting in this same chair that I’m in right now behind a sewing machine. Doing what I love and being able to do it. There’s so much bad out there that if I look at or think like that bad, I’m becoming one of them… There’s so much good and we don’t see so often. So, I’d just like to promote that good. I mean shit! There’s a short time between birth and death and that little bit in the middle is called life. Why be ugly about it? Why hate everything? You know, just look forward to better things. And try to promote decency of all things. And just to keep doing what I’m doing. Writer: Nicole Singson

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