The first in my “LIFE” portraits. This one features one of my favorite people to document Contessa, as she deals with the stress of putting on a fashion show at the Beauty Bar. I actually find the photos to be much more revealing than the video so I embedded it first.
CONTESSA
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Aug 09
Elle (Wilhelmina Models) X Fashion Photoshoot
On a hot summers day we trucked a very young Wilhemina model Elle (from Oregon) to my current neighborhood Bushwhick, Brooklyn for a photo-shoot for her look book.
I was inspired by her youth, and her bratty girl looks. I played with a bad girl that can transcend location (from the suburbs to the city), her sex appeal isn’t vulgar, she look sweets & innocent while maintaining her bad girl virtues.
Clothing Stylist: Contessa Stuto
Photographer: The Incredible MARLEY KATE
Hair & Make-Up: Jillian
I declare this shoot: DUST
XOXO CONTESSA STUTO
TWITTER: CUNTMAFIA
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Aug 09
BEAUTY FIRST X FRIDAYS
Yo yo yo It’s Contessa! I have a new fashion meets music monthly at Beauty Bar Brooklyn (921 Broadway) in Bushwhick. It’s every first Friday of the month, and we should totally make this one a banger! banger-liscious is right!
Here is the link for the Facebook event BEAUTY FIRST
Beauty First! SEPT 4TH!
Dance Party, Vintage Sale and Fashion Show!
Friday Sept. 4th, is an INVASION, of vintage clothing and original designs by local designers/fashion stylists; Contessa, Jordan Fox, Chay $, Hiro tha Jap and Mona Baltazar.
BEAUTY FIRST (FRIDAYS) Monthly at Beauty Bar Brooklyn is queer friendly, fashion forward, and FAB-U-LESS vintage clothes for sale (select by stylist and fashionista’s)
Happy hour drinks 6pm-9pm $3 drinks $2 beer… Let’s keep it local! with drinks starting at $3/4 after 9pm!
$10 FOR A MARTINI AND A MANICURE!
Filmed by Trevz THE NEW POP
9PM-1AM a monthly Vintage sale to showcase looks that are before trend, ultra fab and very rare… This is for my followers and clientele to shop, chill and browse!
I have also asked these other incredible buyers/designers to sell too
JORDAN FOX
www.facebook.com/foxjordan
www.twitter.com/infoxwetrust
HIRO THA JAP
www.facebook.com/hirothajap
www.myspace.com/hirothajap
www.twitter.com/hirothajap
CHAY$.
www.facebook.com/chaythegreat
www.twitter.com/chaythegreat
So it is safe to say that you will be very happy with the fun one of a kind Vintage that we select and sell!
Recessionista priced! for men and woman!
DJ Hiro tha Jap (9-11PM) Dub step, dance, to keep you grooving while shopping, and chilling.
DJ SNACKTOWN will spin 90’s (house, hip hop, freestyle) to post punk and dubstep…etc.
HOST CONTESSA
www.facebook.com/contessastuto
www.myspace.com/drunktits
www.twitter.com/cuntmafia
(921 BROADWAY – Myrtle J,M,Z Bushwhick/Williamburg border)
Here is photos from LAST MONTHS – BEAUTY FIRST.
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- Dance Party, Vintage Sale and Fashion Show!
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May 09
VINTAGE STREET SALE W/KESH! (HUSTLE N GRIND)
SALE THIS SUNDAY JUNE 7TH !!!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE VINTAGE SALES THIS JUNE AND JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!
KESH N CONTESSA
Kesh and I met on the streets of Bed Stuy at around 4 am two years ago. I hadn’t a clue who this beautiful tall amazon was, but I thought I’d just stop and holla at a shorty (she is much taller than I). I just came home from a dyke bar, so I thought, why not continue the cruising?
Kesh called me to go out one night, and we ended up at Roxy Cottontails old wednesday party at Room Service. Roxy then showed us a FABULOUS time, and took us (Kesh, M.I.A., Amanda Blank, Daft Punk, Spank Rock, Leif…etc.) into a strip club and bought us lap dances, champagne and so on. For me, picking out the stripper was the best part, but I would have rather Kesh give me the lap dance that night.
KESH, ALI and CONTESSA circa 2007
Ever since then we have a beautiful relationship with out sex. We are vintage partners and collaborators. I trust and value her opinion – and that doesn’t HAPPEN very often. She is really one of the truest people out there, and deserves all the success in the world.
Doing photo-shoots and vintage with her i’d have to say she has a sharp business eye, and really pays attention to detail. So when we decided to sell on the streets of Williamsburg, I know that we’d have great pieces to sell! anywhere from $3 – 30 (Recession prices, honey!)
All pictures below are from Kesh blog! (some pictures were taken by me, her, and anyone else who got their paws on the camera, including Antwan from ithinkyoureswell.com!)
FIRST SALE -
10:00 AM We were greeted with Kesh fans from New Jersey! through out the day fans of Contessa and Kesh were coming and buying. It was a WILD success! cha-ching!
JORDAN FOX SHOPS
After a wild success of Kesh and I’s first Vintage Sale, we decided to take over the streets again Sunday (April 26th) – This time it was bitter sweet – Kesh is moving to Chicago for a hot minute.
This time it was sweltering hot out, and we were a bit cranky at times, ALSO this time we had some fierce competition – I ended up buying a dress off of another vendor!
We stuck it out, and it ended up being a really chill time because of all our friends, and customers that stopped by!
Here is pictures from my camera phone
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- KESH, ALI and CONTESSA CIRCA 2007
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- KESH, ALI and CONTESSA circa 2007
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- KESH N CONTESSA
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- JORDAN FOX SHOPS
KEEP A MOTHA FUCKIN’ HEADS-UP FOR THE NEXT VINTAGE SALE! CUNTY LOOKS!
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May 09
Fashion and Queer undercurrent at Sway ONCE A MONTH!
What happens when you take ROXY COTTONTAILS biggest “profiling” Hip Hop party and infuse it with Queer hosts (Contessa) and DJ’s (Telfar and Kingdom from MR. BLACK’S CASTLE SATURDAYS) ?!!! You get a melange of “Industry” and/or Underground party people coming out of the wood work.
Typically Sway is known for it’s Mondays Electric Punanni, and Rice and Pea’s but something was missing for fashion hip hop heads.
Adding elements of queer friendly, fashion forward and Industry thinking – we get a balance of crazy partying and the ability (which Sway Mondays was missing for a while) NETWORKING.
With that being said, being involved on a Sway Monday that speaks to me, makes me very happy to be apart of a creative scene.
MAY 11TH 2009
Not to mention the first Fruity Cocomuffs Diplo did a surprise DJ set after miss Mad Decent’s MALUCA performed! This EDITION our home girl Shyvonne and Shamz Le Roc KILLED it.
So Queers, and Fashionista’s who like to bump and grind and dutty wine to a party with an undercurrent of Queer friendly energy, this is it ONCE A MONTH AT FRUITY COCOMUFFS!
I LOVE SWAY MONDAYS! The best hip hop party in NYC, EVER, PERIOD.
Check out PHOTO by TONE FRUITY COCO MUFFS MAY 11TH 2009. CLICK PICTURE BELOW!
FIRST FRUITY COCO MUFFS W/ MALUCA, DIPLO, CONTESSA, ROXY COTTONAIL, TELFAR AND KINGDOM
CONTESSA GETTIN NASTY
DIPLO AND KINGDOM
MALUCA KILLING IT
XOXO CONTESSA
TWITTER: CUNTMAFIA
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May 09
MURDER-fucking-TRONICS !!!
With performance by our very own blogger JASMINE SALONO, TONIGHT I hustle for MURDERTRONICS (SCROLL DOWN FOR MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD) – a crunk booty bass DJ set/Band. These boys kill it with the beats. They are apart of Chief Records (as well as tycoons Ninjasonik)
SHOW AT SUTRA 5.7.09
Download their CRUNK MIXTAPE HERE:
MURDER FUCKING TRONICS
XOXO CONTESSA XOXO
TWITTER: CUNTMAFIA
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May 09
CINCO DE MAYO DONE FILIPINO!
MAY 5TH 2009 AKA CINCO DE MAYO was spent at Mona Baltazars house. Mona has become a character within the New Pop from causing havoc with boys (Hollywood Holt), to being “where the parties at.” With that being said, Mona has graced the Cover of many NEW POP Videos (Movie Night, and SXSW). She has become a mother figure/mentor to me, not to mention she is my HAIR STYLIST.
Check out some designs Mona Baltazar has done for CONTESSA over the last two years.
DESIGN AND SHORT PRECISION
STYLED/CURLED AND RED
ASYMMETRIC 
BLONDE WEAVE 
MOST RECENT – BLONDE SHORT AND PRECISION 
Now you know where I get my bomb ass hairstyles from. She is a creator and innovator, and you know I slaughter the world with my ever changing hair looks. SO if you need a HAIR STYLIST contact MONA BALTAZAR (Click her name for contact)
This Cinco de Mayo, she invited everyone over for some authentic Filipino food!
In her small studio apartment in Bushwhick, brooklyn the NY FAMILY was in full force! NEW POP bloggers ANTON GLAMB, STRICTLY BUSINESS, and photographer TONE even made it! Fresh Daily, Hiro tha Jap, DJ Kingdom, Jordan Fox, Nunnie (Rockstar Society), Black Cracker, StarCity, and among that was beautiful faces Noah, Xenia, Isabella, Cynthia, and Vanessa (whom all have had NEW POP cameos in Videos).
“Mother” Mona made us all go around in a circle and talk about ourselves and Introduce ourselves. I started off the circle because Mona is new-ish to NYC, and has became a best friend of mine, a lot of these people came into Mona’s life were thru me. I introduced myself to the circle as the “First Degree,” the main connection between everyone.
I dedicate this blog to “Mother” Mona and all the beautiful people I bring together thru my social and loving personality.
After the dinner party Black Cracker and I met up with Lauren Flax (whom was with Lady Sov) and we “celezbians” went out on the town to Snapshot (lesbian party), and Happy Endings (Tuesday’s ; SIX SIX SICK party) -Photos will up on DRIVENBYBOREDOM.
when I got home, I probably had the best sex of my life. My dollar store bustier is still in tip top shape. WOW.
Mona’s dinner party
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- STRICTLY BUSINESS, ISABELLA, TONE, ANTON…ETC
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- BLACK CRACKER AND CONTESSA
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- NY FAMILY
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- KINGDOM!
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- ISABELLA AND MONA
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- NUNNIE AND VANESSA
CONTESSA
Your neighborhood ICON
TWITTER: CUNTMAFIA
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May 09
MY 420 FREESTYLE
So 420 of 2009 was spent smoking mad blunts and freestyling up in Black Crackers music studio in Brooklyn.
CONTESSA and BLACK CRACKER
Black Cracker was forced into making a West Coast stylized beat. She considered it one of the gayest beats she has ever made. You know once the “gay beat” was made, I just went loose. Since I am known for my Freestyles.
Click freestyle link!
(Don’t mind the bells of my dog scratching her ears)
420 FREESTYLE
420 FREESTYLE
420 FREESTYLE
XOXO CONTESSA XOXO
TWITTER: CUNTMAFIA
