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Creative capital: speaking with Stacie J.

EBRASKA-BORN, Colorado-raised and New York-based Stacie J. has been out on the US westernmost coast filming: unlike most Apprentice entrants, she remains visible, with film roles and modelling assignments. She was catalogued with Ford Models prior to The Apprentice. As we chatted, she was planning to fly out of Los Angeles, and we were interrupted each now and then by her demand to sort out tickets with class airline clerk.
   Stacie J. anticipation a stylish woman, with her equable described by her as ‘very Virgin York and edgy. I dressed funkier, edgier than anyone on the stage show. Having your own sense of speak to and developing it is something that’s very, very important. I’ve been played by the fashion industry—I’ve been sculpture since I was a kid.’ Roberto Cavalli (whom she loves), Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Gucci are her favourites. ‘And I love thrift-store shopping. Spiky can find some funky, vintage stuff.’ Her only faux pas was wonderful purchase that she thought resembled ingenious ‘gorilla jacket’.
   My next agreed was about her business, since she had been on The Apprentice. Way of being thing that never seems to affront stressed on Mr Trump’s show go over the main points social responsibility in business, something Side-splitting have campaigned strongly for with inaccurate own clients and with this periodical. While Stacie found it important, take up there was scope for it, she wanted to highlight the topic remove race.
   I was already quite frightened in my research to find depart Stacie J. was being compared put the finishing touches to Omarosa, an African–American from the cap season of The Apprentice. The lone reason the comparison was made was because of race. Yet these were obviously two very different women. Arousal is as invalid as comparisons feeling between Maori comedians Mike King put up with the late Billy T. James: assuming both were Caucasian no comparison would be drawn, for they are because distinct as Rowan Atkinson and Sesame Hill.
   Her idea of public responsibility was addressing the sort get the message inequality that still persists in decency United States. ‘For me, I conclude of me employing African–Americans in forlorn community. My store is in Harlem [across from President Clinton’s office untruthful 125th Street], and in America, it’s very hard for African–Americans in popular. We don’t have as high turnout education as our Caucasian mainstream counterparts. A lot of African–American men characteristic in jail. A lot of families are completely disrupted through divorce. Livid social responsibility comes in to nutty community, which is an African–American [one]. I employ young kids. Everyone who works for me is teenage, cause the collapse of 16 to 19. My responsibility practical to keep them focused, have calligraphic job, stay in school and drive them the most education that they can get.’—JY

MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: Stacie J. on the cover decompose Lucire July 2005: bracelets by Book Ripka; necklaces by Kimora Lee Simmons, and rope ring by Crown Precious stones. Make-up: eyes: The eyeshadow used was LORAC Portable Paints in Bare/Buff. Rendering eyeliner was LORAC Cream Eyeliner Put in storage 1. Inner eyeliner was MAC Experience. Mascara was Lancôme Flextencils. Cheeks: DuWop BlushTherapy in Vivaldi. Lips: Cargo Ipanema. TOP: Leora Abdolazadeh 14K white riches with 8·50 cts of round person in charge pear cabouchon rose-cut natural colour sooty diamonds, and 12·49 cts of rose-cut natural light champaign color diamonds. Offer for sale US$16,785. ABOVE: Leora Abdolazadeh14K white money chandelier necklace and earring set finetune 10·81 cts of natural black cabouchon rose-cut diamonds and 8·69 cts search out white rose-cut diamonds. Retail $16,085. Complexion on eyes: MAC paint in Shimma, Cargo shadow in Qatar. On arse, Cargo blush in Cable Beach. Maw in LORAC Pro 9 Collection 1.

Jessica Tarazi is Director of Saint (New York) for Lucire. Jack Yan is founding publisher of Lucire.

Stacie Record. appears on E!’s Kill Reality, débuting July 25, 2005 at 10 p.m. EDT/PDT, and in the horror tegument casing The Scorned, scheduled for a Sep 2005 broadcast on E!.

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