editorial: AMBER ROSE FOR VIBE MAGAZINE

Amber Rose glows in her uber-classy fashion shoot for the relaunch issue of VIBE, on newstands now.

KEYSHIA COLE COVERS VIBE MAG

Check out VIBE’s first ever Style issue featuring Keyshia Cole on the cover…for the third time. The new March ‘09 issue hits newstands February 17th, so be sure to cop it!

KANYE WEST COVERS VIBE MAGAZINE

For the February 2009 issue, Kanye West makes his solo VIBE cover debut!

“I made a decision. I wanna make popular music, but I want less fans,” he told writer Sean Fennessey when asked if he was comfortable with fame. “I want the freedom of having less fans. It’s like the freedom of having less money. If you have letss money, you have less responsibility. It’s like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s Björk.’ But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I’ll pose naked. I break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture.”

I go neck-and-neck on Jay-Z and [Lil] Wayne as far as who’s the best lyricist. Jay-Z has longevity.”

OBAMA COVERS VIBE MAG

Barack Obama appears on the cover of the November issue of Vibe magazine. In it is a letter from the Democratic presidential candidate - where in which he addresses the members of the urban community.

Obama urges blacks to register to vote. “I can’t do it alone. I need you,” he says.

This issue marks the first time in history that the leading lifestyle publication has ever formally endorsed a Presidential nominee.

The issue will be available on newsstands nationwide on October 21st.

VINTAGE SEAN JOHN | A RETROSPECTIVE

Sean John's triumphant return to the runways last season was captured in a vintage editorial for Vibe Magazine.... which draws upon some of the classic designs of the 50's & 60's. Here are some of the published pics from the depiction. It features Ibrahim Baaith, Wendell Lissimore, Salieu, Marcus Lloyd, Lawrence Annunziata and more.

PHOTOS: Kevin Amato


STYLIT: Memsor Kamarake