Editor's Note: Since Blaq Vixen Beauty has recently partnered with Strictly Fab and Lexus, this is the second sponsored post from the Lexus Luxury Awaits campaign. The following event took place on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at the Longview Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Modern luxury was in the atmosphere at the Longview Arts Gallery on the night of Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Transformed with soft mood lighting, sexy music, delectable delights, and scintillating scents, the Lexus Listening Lounge was full to the brim with the talented tenth of DC’s urban and hip society.
Here’s the scoop on Ryan Leslie's and Hal Linton's style:
(picture courtesy of Hal Linton's MySpace page)
Blaq Vixen Beauty: What are your style influences?
Ryan Leslie: I’ve always liked Tom Ford. And really for style…there’s really no influence in my style. People in general…different cultures that I’ve visited around the world..that’s what’s influenced my style. There are a lotta of designers that I like who are my personal friends, like Dsquared, but really at the the end of the day, every time that I talk to them about style, they’ve always told me to be myself and express myself through what I wear.
Hal Linton: My influences are, I mean, I’m really big on graphics stuff, I love the whole idea of big graphic things, and colors, and shapes, and architecture. I like to keep it funky and comfortable.
Blaq Vixen Beauty: How does the Lexus Luxury Awaits campaign relate to what and how you do it?
Ryan Leslie: Luxury is something that, really, many times is the product of hard work. It’s something that we afford to ourselves, a level of comfort, a level of excess, so to speak, that we work hard to attain, or that maybe someone in our family works hard to attain and lessons down onto us. So that’s why I think that when Lexus says Luxury Awaits, it means that if you work hard, you are able to reap the benefits of your hard work and then you can treat yourself to luxury, you know?
Hal Linton: I mean, Lexus is a sexy brand and I love what they are doing. I love what they were doing before with their sound. The sound in the cars is like amazing. I think when people define Lexus, Lexus is like this cool sexy thing. I want to be part of it.
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