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Publisher’s Thoughts This issue, I dedicate to those that have influenced me personally and professionally, starting with a good buddy and friendly competitor, Timothy Harris. Tim is the owner of Identities Model Management, one of the few CEOs of color that owns an agency in The Fashion Capital of the World.
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Next, I was inspired to feature a retro photo layout of one of Jones Model and Talent Management most loyal among its roster, Jerry “Eros” Taveras. Eros was scouted when he was 19 years old and has taken over 20 photo sessions with www.MoJoFXProd.com and this layout is a sampling of some of his best images throughout the years. To celebrate opulence, I am featuring 2 moguls: jewelry designer to the stars, Rodrigo Otazu and custom perfume business owner of Scenterprises, Ms. Sue Phillips. The combination will have you looking and smelling great! Also, in the past year, I had the opportunity of having one of my images featured on the cover of a great novel of a greater author, Mr. Richard Jones. No relation, but definitely a brother from another mother. In the beauty department, I'm featuring a double Blatino combo of Ms. Rhina Brown of Jones Model Management and Mr. Shamik Bernal, model from Identities, Inc. I'm also honored to now feature the travels of my godmother, Essie Gregory, who's a globetrotter. Her last visit was to the African country of Tunisia, which is next to Libya. She was there just before the rebellion started and a few days before President Obama and the United Nations issued a no-fly zone. “Aunt” Essie has traveled to the South Pole, Australia, Alaska and many other cities and countries. Her next point of calls will be Scotland and Reno, Nevada. Then there's the “Alpha Prime” of Jones Model and Talent, Lamonte Lans who's the eye-candy for April. The multi-talented Mr. Lans is formerly a star athlete who scored over 1,000 career points, as well as being an actor and comedian. Lamonte has also started a new venture, which is in development to add “entrepreneur” to his ever growing list of titles. Monty's layout is inspired by the styling of CEO/Model/Photographer, Adrian Alicea, Owner of Nico and Adrian. The 5 Magazine will feature Adrian and his company in the all-Latino issue in May. Lastly, The 5 Magazine would like to dedicate this issue to two icons, who recently passed away, Dame Elizabeth Taylor and the incomparable Lena Horne. Enjoy! Mister Jones HNIC
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Baked Salmon Ingredients · · 2 cloves garlic, minced · 6 tablespoons light olive oil · 1 teaspoon dried basil · 1 teaspoon salt · 1 teaspoon ground black pepper · 1 tablespoon lemon juice · 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped · 2 (6 ounce) fillets salmon
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PREPARATION Ÿ In a medium glass bowl, prepare marinade by mixing garlic, light olive oil, basil, salt, pepper, lemon juice and parsley. Place salmon fillets in a medium glass baking dish, and cover with the marinade. Marinate in the refrigerator about 1 hour, turning occasionally. Ÿ Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Ÿ Place fillets in aluminum foil, cover with marinade, and seal. Place sealed salmon in the glass dish, and bake 35 to 45 minutes, until easily flaked with a fork.
7 5TH AVENUE: THE SHOPPING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD A|X Armani Exchange 645 Fifth Ave.
Abercrombie & Fitch 720 Fifth Ave.
American Girl Place 609 Fifth Ave.
The Apple Store 767 Fifth Ave.
Baby Gap 680 Fifth Ave.
Bergdorf Goodman 754 Fifth Ave.
Bergdorf Men's 745 Fifth Ave.
Best Buy Midtown 529 5th Ave.
Blanc De Chine 673 Fifth Ave.
Bottega Veneta 699 Fifth Ave.
Brooks Brothers 666 Fifth Ave.
Bulgari 730 Fifth Ave.
Cartier 653 Fifth Ave.
Cole Hann 141 Fifth Ave.
De Beers 703 Fifth Ave.
Emilio Pucci 701 Fifth Ave.
Ermenegildo Zegna 730 Fifth Ave.
Escada 715 Fifth Ave.
Faconnable 636 Fifth Ave.
FAO Schwarz 767 Fifth Ave.
Fendi 677 Fifth Ave.
Fortunoff 681 Fifth Ave.
Gant 645 Fifth Ave.
Gap 122 Fifth Ave.
Gianni Versace 647 Fifth Ave.
Gucci 725 Fifth Ave.
H. Stern 645 Fifth Ave.
H&M 640 Fifth Ave.
Harry Winston 718 Fifth Ave.
Henri Bendel 712 Fifth Ave.
Hugo Boss 717 Fifth Ave.
Kenneth Cole 95 Fifth Ave.
Louis Vuitton 611 57th St.
Mexx 650 Fifth Ave.
Mikimoto & Piaget 730 Fifth Ave.
NBA Store 666 Fifth Ave.
Nine West 675 Fifth Ave.
Prada 724 Fifth Ave.
Saks Fifth Avenue 611 Fifth Ave.
Salvatore Ferragamo 655 Fifth Ave.
Sephora 597 Fifth Ave.
Sergio Rossi 685 Fifth Ave.
Takashimaya 693 Fifth Ave.
Tiffany & Co., 727 Fifth Ave.
Trump Tower 725 Fifth Ave.
Van Cleef & Arpels 744 Fifth Ave.
World of Disney Store 711 Fifth Ave.
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The 5 Pick: Atlas in front of the Top of the Rock
For Fashion-focused NYC tourists, shopping at the New York stores on Fifth Avenue is a definite must during your stay in the Big Apple. NY shopping is an entirely different experience than shopping in another city, especially along this historical road. Located in the center of Manhattan, the best Fifth Avenue shopping takes place between 39th and 60th Street at NYC flagship stores. Whether you are searching for the latest fashions, NY souvenirs, or useful housewares, New York outlets on Fifth Ave cater to every taste and budget
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MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS 1943: Cabin in the Sky 1943: Stormy Weather 1978: The Wiz TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS 1963: Jack Paar Show 1963: Judy Garland Show 1958-66: Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall 1966: Mike Douglas Show 1966: Andy Williams Show 1967: Merv Griffin Show 1967-69: Dean Martin Comedy Hour 1970: Engelbert Humperdinck Show 1973: Sandford & Son 1973: Sesame Street 1976: The Muppet Show 1985: Cosby Show 1991: Reading Rainbow 1993: Different World MORE HIGHLIGHTS ON TUMBLR
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MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS 1943: Lassie Come Home 1944: National Velvet 1949: Little Women 1950: Father of the Bride 1958: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1963: Cleopatra 1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967: Taming of the Shrew 1994: The Flintstones MORE HIGHLIGHTS ON TUMBLR
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Richard Charlton-Pharris Jones served as Editor-in-Chief for Morris Brown College’s student publication, The Wolverine Observer, which won the first-place Southern Regional Press Institute award. He was senior staff writer for the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint. His articles and book reviews have appeared in SBC, Venus, and the Brothers United Nashville newsletter, The Source. As an Oprah scholar, Richard earned his bachelor’s degree in English at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. Follow on Twitter www.twitter.com/Mohouze404
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Making Scents of it All
Scenterprises have a passionate interest in just about anything that nurtures the senses through the fragrance experience.
Scenterprises work with some of the leading consumer brands in the world, including Tiffany, Burberry, Lancôme, Avon, Lancaster, Trish McEvoy, Oilily, Bath & Body Works, Chanel and many more. They create new products to define branding, promotional and licensing strategies in order to deliver high-impact fragrance collections. As arbiters of fragrance trends, Scenterprises have a true scents of style. Their fingers are on the pulse of the beauty industry.
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Within the home fragrance arena, Sue collaborated with Diane Von Furstenberg on “Surroundings by DVF” for Avon, and also developed Avon’s “Beauty Begins at Home” Candle Collection, “Air so Clear” Home Freshener line, and Avon’s Health & Wellness Business.
For five years Sue acted as Adjunct Professor, Cosmetic & Fragrance Marketing at Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), training a new generation of fragrance marketers.
Scenterprises offers multi-sensory experiences taking clients on a fragrance journey to create their very own custom perfume. In addition to personal fragrances Scenterprises creates branded scented environments to scent brand properties such as hotels, spas, retail outlets and other commercial spaces. About the President, Sue Phillips From an early age Sue Phillips has had a love affair with scents. Today, when she encounters a strange yet familiar fragrance she is immediately transported back to her roots in South Africa and the memories are palpable. It is this experience that Sue wants to share with clients, individuals, and corporations. Sue is a globally recognized expert in the fragrance, cosmetics and personal care fields; having held executive positions at Tiffany & Co., Lancôme and Elizabeth Arden.
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Sue has launched and implemented product development, branding and promotional strategies for some of the world’s leading fragrance brands. She created the Tiffany and Tiffany for Men, Society by Burberry and Burberry for Men fragrances, and developed the original three eponymous Trish
Scenterprises Ltd 220 East 65th Street, Suite 9D New York, NY 10065 T: 646-350-6562 | M: 917-449-1134 sue@scenterprises.com Follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ScentfullySue Friend on Facebook: Scenterprises and The Perfume Studio
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17 Rodrigo Otazu designs by pure instinct and straight from the heart. The smallest discovery sparks Rodrigo’s unique creativity. Inspired by his global travels, he creates stunning creations. Always pure, always with emotion. The Otazu audience wants to look exquisite and feel extraordinary. Originality is found staying ahead of the crowd, with a stunning style statement that offers a glance at what’s next. It is this originality that makes people go ‘wow’. Constant innovation is fundamental; I always look out for new ingredients and I follow my own path regardless of current trends”. Otazu offers an integrated line of fashion and design products remarkable in their original style and beauty. In addition to the bijoux line Rodrigo Otazu creates Sterling Silver, Diamond, Shoe and Handbag line. Otazu designs tailor-made creations by order of various international celebrities and fashion designers.
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18 Identities N.Y. Inc is a fashion force to be reckoned with. With its unique melting pot of extraordinary models from all over the world, Identities intentionally avoids the usual factory duplicated clone concept, of models who all look alike. Instead Identities embraces diversity and prides itself on its universal display of talent and beauty where it is clear that everyone has their own identity.
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Hey Mr. Harris, Tell me a little about yourself. (Tim Harris) I am the CEO, Creative and Casting Director of Identities Inc., as well a stylist and writer.
Where were you born? I was born in Brooklyn, New York and I live and work bi-costal, between New York and LA. The agency, how did you come up with the agency name? That's interesting; it actually has a personal duo meaning. I was fresh out of the music industry when I decided to open up a modeling agency. I modeled briefly myself, and then worked as a show coordinator for approximately 8 years. After that I became a stylist where I had worked with recording artist like Genuine, Black Rob, Juvenile etc. Before I delved into the fashion business, I observed that there was a particular brand of beauty being acknowledged, of what beauty is suppose to be, and it was not diverse. I always knew that beauty could never be one perspective and that it had to be diverse, because different people like different things. Also, when I decided to open up my own agency, I had just come out of a 7 and a half year relationship...yes 7 in a half...lol. When you are with someone that long and you suddenly break up, you have to find yourself all over again. So, once I made an assessment of the fashion industry and once I found myself personally, the name I chose for my agency was "Identities". The duo meaning is that it is very important to have your own identity, and just so much easier to be who you are, as oppose to taking a script that someone else has written for you. I also learned that it is also very important in this short life time of ours, that when you decide to love to love with all your heart, but never lose your identity in someone else. What bookings are you most proud of? Some of my larger bookings have been Armani, Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie and Fitch, Timberland, Sean John, Escada, Givenchy, Jeremy Scott, etc. How you select models? Very carefully...lol, it's funny because a lot of models who are overly stunning tend to think that their looks alone will bring them the big bucks. However that is only partially true. Everybody in the fashion business is attractive or stunning. So after awhile that becomes a blur. There is only one thing that separates all the beautiful people, and that is personality. As an agent and a casting director I am looking for the person who I think will be pleasant to be around for the next 8 hours on the job we're doing, or the next 2 years on the contract that we just signed. So the physical attractiveness is to be expected of any model, the personality is the bonus surprise. Where do you see the industry going because of the internet and social networking? Well I think that industry will and have already begun to take online magazines like yours (The 5 Magazine), Nuovo,, Zoo Zoom, XEX etc. and others a lot more serious. I think the Internet and social networking has exploded and is now the pulse of the world, and it also makes the world a whole lot easier to reach. I can only imagine it expanding. For instance, I am proud and excited to say, that I am now working on my own publication with my partner, Jack Ramos, called Chromosome X. Chromosome X will be a dynamic men's fashion magazine full of diversity and loaded with some of the best high fashion editorials that viewers have not seen in awhile.
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Photographer: Daniel Dease Stylist : Timothy Tahari Harris Grooming: Joel Angel Model: Yaqui/Identities N.Y. Inc
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TRAVELING TO TUNISIA Old and new, exotic and traditional, the captivating North African country of Tunisia sits at the heart of the Mediterranean, caught in a cleft between Algeria and Libya, offering the travelers some sumptuous modern seaside resorts set side by side with a treasure trove of ancient Roman, Arab, Berber and Phoenician sites.
Just a few miles north of the capital, Tunis, lie the remains of the legendary ancient city of Carthage, founded in the 8th century BC. By contrast Tunis is a hustling, bustling modern metropolis where steel, glass and palm trees form the backdrop to streets filled with fast-moving yellow taxis. In the heart of this surprisingly pristine city, however, the centuries slip away in the medieval Medina, a haven for souvenir hunters with hundreds of narrow streets crammed with vendors of antiques, jewelry, pottery, carpets, perfumes, dried fruit, books, spices and many other delights. Also, no to the city should miss a visit to the Bardo Museum, for the joy of viewing one of the world's greatest collections of Roman mosaics. Tunisia has a thousand miles of coastline to the north, where luxurious resorts like Hammamet and Nabeul nestle amid citrus orchards. Vacationers relish the sandy beaches and crystalline waters along the waterfront, where the only alternative to lazy bronzing is to indulge in a round of golf or take the plunge with some water sports. Those intrepid enough to venture into the south, on the threshold of the Sahara desert, will be rewarded with some interesting geographical features like the 'forest in the desert' at Ramada, the dry salt lake at Chott el Jerid, or the remote 'end of the road' oasis at Ksar Ghilane. The cherry on the top for visitors to this affordable and exotic holiday destination is the warmth and genuine friendliness of the Tunisian people. This is evident in even the smallest of villages, where if you happen to pass through during one of the numerous festivals you will be welcomed, urged to join in and find yourself dancing and sharing a cup of tea. In essence, Tunisia is about sun, sand, archaeological treasures, lazy days and starry nights
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TRAVELING TO TUNISIA 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Tunisia
1. Although Tunisia is generally thought of as an Arab country, only a minority of the population - less than 10% - can be genetically linked to the Arabs of the Middle East. Most Tunisians are descendants of the indigenous Berber population. 2. Modern day Tunisia is the location of the ancient Phoenician empire centered around Carthage. Carthage was famed for the Punic wars it fought against the Roman empire, the second of which was fought under the command of Hannibal. The ruins of Carthage lie 10 km from modern Tunis, Tunisia's capital. 3. Tunisia has served as a popular location for some of Hollywood's biggest films, among which include Star wars, Jesus of Nazareth, The English Patient and Raiders of the Lost Ark. 4. Tunisia has many sites of archaeological interest, particularly ones of Roman origin. The largest Roman site in the country is in Dougga which contains remarkably well preserved Roman buildings, spans 65 hectares and has been designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO. 5. Tunisia is one of Africa's most popular tourist destinations with over 5 million visitors each year and was rated the most competitive tourist destination in Africa in 2007 by the World Economic Forum. American and most European tourists do not require visas to enter Tunisia.
My Aunt, Essie Gregory , in Tunisia Is Tatooine in Star Wars Really a Town in Tunisia? The planet is not actually named in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope; according to Lucas he intended to name it Utapau but finally he named it retrospectively after a nearby town to the movie's desert location, Tataouine (French spelling) or Tataween (( )ﺗﻄﺎوﻳﻦArabic spelling) in southern Tunisia. Utapau however was given to a different planet, in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Filming was not done in the Tunisian town of Tatouine itself, but instead at Tunisian locations such as Matmâta, Djerba, and Tozeur. The name "Tatouine" comes originally from the Berber word "Titawin" which means "Sources". The city of "Tetuan" in north Morocco has the same root.
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