Stylist and marketing specialist Ashley Chin has been putting in serious work building up her marketing and PR firm, Vanguard House, which offers marketing, styling and production packages for clients. Now Ashley is on to yet another venture with the creation of her upcoming publication, Zolly Magazine!

Coming up with the unique name Zolly (“I wanted something with a Z or Dolly, so I put those two together,” she stated), Ashley developed the idea specifically for tastemakers and entrepreneurs to learn and grow professionally and personally. “I really wanted to create a magazine that would not only talk about influencers in fashion, music or art,” she said. “I wanted to also talk about things like travel, how to "ball" on a budget, how to get a business started and more.”

Zolly Magazine will be offered online for now, but Ashley plans to offer the option for readers to purchase physical copies in the future with the intentions of giving back. “Half of the proceeds from the magazine will go to a charity that I end up partnering with,” she stated. The magazine will be officially ready around July or August, with Ashley and her team developing the site as well as great content before the launch.

The entrepreneur believes that Zolly will stand apart from the pack because of its content and purpose. “My whole purpose for starting the magazine is to gain recognition for giving back but also for talents who may be making killer moves but not able to get proper recognition,” Ashley said. Though she has hopes for the magazine to grow into one of the biggest publications, “I mostly want it to be a ‘go-to’ for people who are trying to find tips on being successful,” she added.

Be sure to be on the lookout for Zolly Magazine launching later this summer! You can also follow the magazine on Instagram!

8:14:00 AM

Lupita Nyong'o is absolutely stunning on the cover of October's issue of Vogue!

In her full feature with the magazine, the actress speaks about her new upcoming acting projects (the girl is GRINDING!), fashion, fame, and her family. She seems so down to earth and friendly, and the article does a great job of showing that, too. And her photos? My goodness! Lupita is absolutely beautiful, and knows how to work the camera!

Check out more pictures from the shoot and behind the scenes video below!








Watch Lupita talk about her upcoming role in the new Star Wars film, Shakespeare, and her secret talents below!

Watch this video on The Scene.

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Images via Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue

10:13:00 AM

Misty Copeland has snagged the cover of the September issue of Essence!

The ballerina, who happens to be the first African American ballet dancer to take the lead role in Swan Lake, looks absolutely stunning as she poses on pointe! In addition to that great achievement, Essence also notes that Misty also has a new role on Broadway in the play On The Town, has signed a contract with Under Amour, and is now engaged to her long time boyfriend.

With so many accomplishments at only 32 years old, Misty is having an amazing year. I would say that she deserves it with all the hard work and training she has put in to reach her goals. Goals do not happen without a plan and hard work. Misty gets added to the list of people that young African American girls should look up to or admire.

Make sure you grab your copy ladies and gentlemen!!!

Image via Essence

3:57:00 PM

Sandra Bullock has been named PEOPLE's World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2015!

In her interview with PEOPLE for the cover, she discussed motherhood, her diet and health, and her ideas on how life should be. Her healthy diet and exercise regimen, which she stated helps keep her balanced and grounded, includes green juice and working out with Body By Simone four to five times a week. That helps her stay "balanced and grounded" as well. "I love that it's not big weights, you move the entire time, it's a torture chamber of sorts," she said of her routine. "When I started, I could barely do 20 seconds, and I'm not kidding. I'm crying on the floor, and she's like, 'Are you a smoker?' I was like, 'I hate you.'

Read more from the interview below!



Her main focus right now is being a great mom to her 5-year-old son, Louis, which constantly reminds her what's most important. "Real beauty is quiet. Especially in this town, it's just so hard not to say, 'Oh, I need to look like that,' " she explains. "No, be a good person, be a good mom, do a good job with the lunch, let someone cut in front of you who looks like they're in a bigger hurry. The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying."

The gorgeous actress doesn't take the title all that seriously though, saying that she laughed when she heard the announcement. "I just said, 'That's ridiculous,' " she tells PEOPLE. "I've told no one." Sandra will be heard in the upcoming animated film, Minions, as a super villain.

I absolutely love her. She may not really care about the title, and as legendary as she is, she doesn't need to. However, I admire her and her work so much, and she really is a beautiful woman. She seems to be beautiful on the inside too!

What do you think of Sandra being named PEOPLE's World's Most Beautiful Woman for this year?

Image via PEOPLE

5:16:00 AM

Country singer Miranda Lambert snagged the cover of the January 2015 issue of Marie Claire, openly discussing her marriage of over three years to Blake Shelton, her weight loss, and her feelings on creating music.

Miranda admits that she's head over heels in love with Blake, admitting that he's the light of her life. "I'm not sunshine and roses. Blake's the happiest person on the planet,” she told Marie Claire. “He pulls me out of my darkness … Literally, everything is the best about being married."

The singer also opened up about her recently weight loss (she dropped around 20 pounds earlier this year!). "When you have to walk out there in front of thousands of people, it does feel good to know that your s—t’s not jiggling, I’m just like anybody else, insecure and scared of looking bad or being criticized," she admitted. However, she included that it's not as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. "Everybody's making this big, giant thing about it. It's way too much focus on women's bikini photos, and I hate it. Why do we care? I want women to love themselves whatever they've got going on," she continued in the interview.

She also spoke about her start in music, and how she strives to create authentic lyrics.
 "I didn't have any other plans. I didn't go to college,” she said of playing in bars underage without supervision. “There was no, 'if this doesn't work out…' It was like: 'This has to work out!' When I walk into a bar and smell old beer and cigarettes, it smells like home, because that's where I grew up." The singer strives to make real music that people can connect with as well. ""Early on, an artist told me, 'Don't be yourself. Perform and be someone else,’” she said. “And I thought, 'That seems like exactly the opposite of what I should be doing.' Then I had people wanting me to adjust my lyrics to be more appealing to the masses or whatever. I said, 'No, that's bulls—t.’ I'd rather sell four copies of something that's real than 4 million copies of something that's fake." Well all right Miranda!

I'm not in love with the cover, but I loved reading the interview. Both Miranda and Blake seem so down to earth, and this interview proved it even more.



Image via Boe Marion/Marie Claire

11:29:00 AM

Gorgeous and talented actress Eva Longoria has been named Maxim's Woman of the Year! Her first time on the cover, and she looks great!

"It's especially awesome after how long it's been since my first cover," Eva said in an interview with the magazine. "I've had a beautiful relationship with Maxim over all these years." She's in love with the cover, believing this to be her best yet. "When someone sees the cover of this issue, they're going to say, '¡Que rico!'" the actress said "'¡Que rico!' Say it when something is really good, when you're enjoying something."







Even though Eva gives mad sex appeal, she wants people to know that there's more to her than that. "One thing people are usually surprised about when they get to know me is how domestic I am. So when you see the sexy Maxim cover and then you put it against me in an apron with flour in my hair, it takes a moment to reconcile that image," Eva admitted.

She received her master's degree in 2013 (even rescheduling this interview to finish her thesis, which the magazine consented to). "I was like, 'My brain can't jump that fast from a Maxim interview to a thesis!' She's always gone the extra mile, even when she was younger. "Back in high school I really was the chameleon, too. I got along with the honors math club, then I would go to cheerleading practice, and then I was a band geek as well."

Eva looks absolutely stunning on this cover (as if we expected anything less!). You can check out the rest of the interview in Maxim's January/February issue on stands now. Congrats to her on snagging Woman of the Year!

Images via Randall Slavin/Maxim

12:11:00 PM

Kerry Washington looked great on the cover of Glamour for the October issue! Dressed in a pink Diordress, the actress spoke with the magazine about why she chose to keep her relationship a secret, her style game, as well as revealing that her parents disapproved of her career choice (what?!!)!

Check out more from the interview below!

On Keeping Her Personal Life Private

I learned through experience that it doesn’t work for me to talk about my personal life. I’ve had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it. I was on the cover of a bridal magazine [InStyle Weddings, in 2005, when Washington was engaged to actor David Moscow]. But I couldn’t just turn around and say, “I only want to talk about the good stuff, but not the bad stuff.” So I just thought, “OK, no more.”

You even managed to get married in June without anyone knowing.

Absolutely! I’m walking around in the world with my ring. And when people say congratulations, I say thank you. But I’m going to continue to not talk about it and just let it unfold.

It must have been satisfying to pull off a wedding with no press around.

[Laughs.] I don’t want to sound smug about it…but the point is to do what’s best for me. I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

On If Her Parents Approve Of Her Career ChoiceWhen I said that this is what I wanted to do, my mother literally cried. She didn’t want me to experience all that rejection. They both would have preferred me to have been a lawyer.… [After college] I gave myself a year to make it in acting and was living in my parents’ house teaching beginner’s yoga when I got my first part, in Our Song. Then I got Save the Last Dance.… Now they’re really behind me. And I’m always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

On Fashion Being Important to Her Career
OK, I’m going to admit this: There were a couple of actresses whom I felt were having the upper hand careerwise—because they knew how to work that red carpet. I was like, “I’m missing a really important tool. If I am the CEO of the Kerry Washington Corporation, my marketing department is really lax.” So I sort of developed a new character: Red-Carpet Kerry.[...]And I researched her like any other character. I actually called Tracee Ellis Ross [the actress and Diana Ross’s daughter], who’s a good friend, and literally asked, “How do you pronounce Hermès?” Red-Carpet Kerry needed to know.[...]The professor’s daughter kicked in. I was doing library hours on fashion. And then it happened—I was in love.

On Her All White Fashion in “Scandal”
From me and the costume designer Lyn Paolo. And the pants—that Olivia wears pants—that was mine, because I really wanted her to wear the pants in that relationship.

I'm a proud Glamour subscriber, so I can't wait for my issue to get to the house! And, of course, season 3 of Scandal starts back up October 3, officially a month away! Gladiators are you ready?!!

Image via Glamour

1:55:00 PM

First Lady Michelle Obama is looking absolutely beautiful on the April cover of Vogue! For her second appearance in the fashion mag, Ms. Michelle is rocking her new bangs with a great sleveless blue dress that show off her toned arms.

In her interview with the magazine, First Lady Michelle reiterated how important parenting is to both her and President Barach Obama, and how they keep daughters Malia and Sasha #1 in spite of their hectic schedules. "Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole. You know, we have small kids; they're growing every day," she explained. "But I think we were both pretty straightforward when we said, 'Our No. 1 priority is making sure that our family is whole.'"

The First Lady also talked about lessons she learned from her husband. "Well, patience and calm I'm borrowing. Or trying to mirror. I've learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road," she said of the President. "To do more breathing in and just going with it. I'm learning that every day. And to the extent that I’ve made changes in my life, it's just sort of stepping back and seeing a change not as something to guard against but as a wonderful addition. . . that can make life fun and unexpected."

The April issue of Vogue hits stands March 26!

Image via Vogue

7:34:00 AM

Taylor Swift was open and candid in her interview for the April issue of Vanity Fair, discussing her music, the media’s opinion of her, and her infamous breakups with boy pop stars.


It’s no secret that many believe that Taylor is a clingy, boy-crazy young girl that only writes love songs, a rumor that Taylor strongly refutes. “Everybody in these tabloidy gossipy blogs, they think they have you pegged, like 'Taylor's boy-crazy'...For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her...that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist,” she said. "I'm sick of the tabloids saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it."
According to the mag, Taylor did give a friend permission to spill the beans about her past relationship with One Direction’s Harry Styles. The friend said that the singer went after Taylor for a year, eventually wearing her down and getting close with her…and then was photographed making out with another girl. (Harry’s rep told the mag this was "undeniably false," but who knows what the real deal is). Taylor’s friend continued saying that the couple got back together, though Taylor didn’t fully trust him. However, they broke up again before the Grammys, where Taylor seemed to be making fun of Harry’s English accent when she opened the show with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." You can read more of the interview in the new issue of Vanity Fair (which Taylor looks great in!).

Regardless of what people say, I like Taylor more and more as time goes on. I’ve had “I Knew You Were Trouble” on repeat for the past few days now. Her songs are catchy and fun, perfect for the teen girl demographic that her brand is made for (I'm 22, and I still like her!). She’s not for everybody, but she’s perfect for many! I give her props because that girl can sell some albums!

Image via Vanity Fair

12:02:00 PM

Could it be? According to the New York Post, sources say that the Kardashian clan could possibly be coming out with their own magazine. The fam is supposedly close to landing a deal with American Media Inc., which owns Star, The National Enquirer and Shape, in efforts to launch a mag of all thing Kardash. “This is a Kardashian idea,” a source said. “They have been reaching out to several media outlets."

This has yet to be confirmed by momager Kris Jenner, or any of the Kardashian sisters. However, rumors are circulating that they all plan to be involved in editorial, and that the mag could launch as soon as spring. Some are saying that say the mag will be more of a fanzine devoted to the family, while others believe that this Kardashian zine will be similar to Kim’s celebuzz blog, which gives fans the inside scoop on family news and plugs for sponsors. AMI and a Kardashian rep declined to comment.

Though I personally am a bit skeptical on this really happening, I wouldn't put it past the family to publish something like this. With the negativity coming from Kim's divorce, maybe they want a chance to set the record straight with fans and the media. Plus they're always looking for new ventures. I can't knock the hustle. If a Kardashian magazine were to come out, I'm sure the dedicated fans would buy! Would you buy a magazine of all things Kardashian?

6:35:00 AM

Don't believe it ladies and gents! A supposedly leaked cover of PEOPLE made a huge splash over the weekend. The cover featured Twilight's own Taylor Lautner and his "coming out story" is a fake, according to NY Daily News.

The cover is "absolutely fake," a rep for the magazine said. On the Photoshopped cover, Taylor is quoted as saying that he's "more liberated, and happier than I've ever been" after finally "announcing" his homosexuality. "Tired of rumors, the 'Twilight' star opens up about his decision to finally come out," the cover claims.
Check out the phony cover below!

The image also features two sidebar photos — featuring Brad Pitt and Carnie Wilson — that are taken directly from a May 2006 People cover.

Some celebs actually believed that the cover was real, including mogul Russell Simmons, who took to his Twitter to support Taylor. Russell tweeted that he was "proud of Taylor Lautner for his bravery and his courage." Upon finding out that the image was a hoax, he wrote that he was "disappointed that people would joke about someone coming out about their sexuality. Let Taylor Lautner be whoever he wants to be ..."

Rumors surrounding Taylor's sexual orientation have been swirling for quite some time. In an interview with Parade Magazine, the 19-year-old confessed that "it's tough" to avoid reading about himself: "It's definitely impossible to avoid stuff about me sometimes, but it's pretty important to try," he said. "It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet."

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10:07:00 AM

While I wouldn't classify this as a typical Marilyn look, Rihanna looks amazing! I kind of like her as a blonde. Red and brown fits her better, though. Check out a few more pics after the jump! (Via Necole Bitchie)

8:33:00 AM

Absolutely love Ryan Gosling. Probably since I first saw him in Remember the Titans. People know him most for his role in the romantic drama The Notebook. He is now starring in the comedy Crazy, Stupid Love alongside Steve Carell. Ryan was featured on September's issue of Esquire Magazine and had a photoshoot with a ghastly theme. According to Esquire, Ryan was fascinated with ghostly apparitions as a kid, and told the photographer of the shoot about some of his recent dreams which were then interpreted in these pics. Artsy...but creepy! Check out the pictures after the jump!

Eeeee!

5:04:00 AM

 

Lea Michele stuns on the September cover of Bazaar! In an interview with the magazine, Lea talks about career plans after Glee, the show's upcoming 3d movie (excitement!), and her boyfriend, Theo Stockman. As far as her career, Lea's just getting started. “I don’t stop,” she told Bazaar. “It’s my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway...I want to do movies, make music. Glee is only the beginning.” 

I'm definitely excited to see what all she has planned for the future. Sad to see her, Cory Monteith (Finn), and Chris Colfer (Kurt) leave Glee, but I know they'll be successful in their future endeavors.

(via HollyScoop)

7:38:00 AM

Rihanna takes the cover of Glamour Magazine for their September issue, and talks to the magazine about her music, style, fellow musicians, and being a role model. Check out more pics from the shoot after the jump!

Get it Ri!!!! Beautiful!

5:23:00 AM