The beautiful and talented Vashite Kola : I’ve had so much success when things happen truly organically.”

Young ladies if you need someone to look up to as a role model Vashtie Kola is he person. Vashtie Kola is truly talented person, and very classy may I add. Here is a piece of interview from New York Times.

“It was really weird,” Ms. Kola said. “They were mostly brown girls, girls who wouldn’t normally wear chambray.” It soon became very clear that they were trying to dress like her.
Her style influence has grown considerably in recent years, thanks to a number of high-profile gigs. She hosted a popular party at Santos Party House with the rapper Q-Tip. She started Violette, a T-shirt line sold at Colette, and was the first woman to design a Nike Air Jordan last December. And she directed the video for Justin Bieber’s debut single, “One Time,” in which the young pop star has a party for his pre-pubescent friends at his mentor Usher’s house. It’s been viewed 240 million times on YouTube.

Her ability to hop from one world to another has a lot to do with her upbringing. Ms. Kola grew up in a poor section of downtown Albany, the daughter of Trinidadian immigrants.
“My parents didn’t explain a lot of things to me about West Indian culture,” she said. Her neighborhood was predominantly black, she said, adding: “I assumed I was black. But the black kids were like, ‘You look Indian,’ and the Indian kids were like, ‘You look black."

Credit: New York Times