Rihanna Covers the Next Issue of i-D Magazine

Rihanna covers the Spring 2010 issue of i-D Magazine. She gives us her take on i-D's o' so famous "one-eyed wink" cover shot. For more info visit i-D Magazine site.

PYT's Cover i-D Magazine!!

Where can you find four black up and coming supermodels on the cover of a high-profile fashion magazine? Only in London baby!! Chanel Iman, Jourdan Dunn, Sessilee Lopez and Arlenis Sosa covers the September 2009 issue of i-D Magazine. Get with it America and step your game up. In the meantime, support them and go cop the issue at your nearest newsstand. And if that doesn't work, you can have it delivered to you from Universal News On Demand.

Here is a lil' something extra for my fashionistos and fashionistas.

Lady GaGa Covers V Magazine #61

LADY GAGA was photographed by MARIO TESTINO and was styled by Nicola Formichetti for V Magazine. V Mag happens to be one of our new favorite publications that we read faithfully. The magazine is available on newsstands now.

Drake Covers Fader

Fader Magazine gave Drake the cover of their September issue. This issue hits newstands August 18th.

Celebrating Naomi Sims' Life

Join us as we celebrate the life of one of the first black supermodel Naomi Sims. According to wikipedia, Ms. Sims was born in Oxford, Mississippi, the youngest of three daughters born to John and Elizabeth Sims. Her father was reportedly a porter. She became one of the first successful black models while still in her teens, and achieved worldwide recognition from the late 1960s into the early 1970s, appearing on the covers of prestigious fashion and popular magazines. In 1968 she was the first black model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal. She also appeared on the cover of the October 17, 1969 issue of Life magazine. By 1972, Hollywood took an interest in her as a potential actress and offered her the title role in the movie Cleopatra Jones, but when Sims read the script, she was appalled by the racist portrayal of blacks in the movie and turned it down. Sims ultimately decided to go into the beauty business for herself, becoming a self-made entrepreneur. She succumb to breast cancer on August 1, 2009.

Maxwell Covers Giant Magazine

Maxwell is on the covers of Giant Magazine's August Issue. Pick up a copy, it hit newstands today.

Lily Allen covers I-D Magazine

Check out British pop star Lily Allen on the cover of this months i-D's magazine.

VOGUE ITALIA GOES BLACK....BARBIE STYLE

With the success of last year's Vogue Italia's first All Black Issue, they decided to do another all black issue, this time celebrating the black barbie. Franca Sozzani, Editor-in-Chief of Italian Vogue explains,

“Barbie has been an icon for whole generations which is why I really wanted to give a strong sign in step with the times, and dedicate this issue to Black Barbie.”

Jay-Z Covers Billboard Magazine

Jay-Z covers Billboard's July/August issue. With his September 11th release of The Blueprint 3, we are all excited for this newly independent artist. Because we, here at BRICKS, pride ourselves on being the soucre for your information and inspiration, we thought we end this post with a food for thought from the interview.

"I still owed an album to Def Jam, but I wanted to have it back for a number of reasons, the most important being that it wasn't consistent with the type of business I planned for me or where I was positioning myself. Everything in my life I had taken charge of, but yet I was still an artist signed to a label. It seemed a little archaic in my plans," he says. "I've always prided myself on being a principled person. It was more so the principle than the amount of money. It was about owning my own masters and owning my own companies, but you have to pay for the privilege, and that comes at a premium."