Spring is a time of renewal. Instead of frolicking in the meadows or going out and smelling the tulips, we find ourselves in the midst of a global health crisis. Agenda wanted to address it! This issue heavily features content that raises awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic. Our cover, photographed by Emin Kadi, modeled by Ksenia Kakhnovich, and styled by Ty-Ron Mayes is part of an image retrospective of top models, wearing high fashion masks and gloves with couture designs – a compilation taken from a series of Mayes’s fashion shoots throughout the years. As a recent addition to Agenda, Ty-Ron curates The Fashion Whisperer with a Public Service Announcement and editorial titled GENERATION QUARANTINE! And we interview Ty-Ron in “Fashion’s Response to Coronavirus.” Listen to the podcast about the fashion spread.
Beauty editor Shahada Karim shows us how to maintain a beauty routine in the midst of COVID-19 with “Beauty & the Pandemic.” Other beauty articles are “Skin Science: Growth Factor” with advice from esthetician Jennifer Christie; and Shahada’s review of black leggings from the activewear brands Niyami Sol, LNDR, and Carbon 38 in Fitness Couture’s “The Perfect Pair.” Melanie Wise of Wise Remedies interviews a registered nurse in “Dialing Down Hysteria.” While In the trenches, this RN is treating patients with the coronavirus. This Q&A is filled with lifesaving advice.
Book reviews are back in Agenda, and Zac Baldwin critiques the The Silent Corner (Dean Koontz), The Cutting Edge (Jeffrey Deaver), and A String of Beads (Thomas Perry). Sheryl Aronson of Arting Around interviews seven screenwriters from WGAW’s Behind the Screen: Adam Mervis (21 Bridges), Scott Alexander (Dolemite Is My Name), Andy Callahan (Inside Game), Andrew Lanham (Just Mercy), Lorene Scarfaria (Hustlers), and Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly (Like A Boss). We also spotlight self-portraits from the exhibit Eye to I from the National Portrait Gallery at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
In Fashion Talk, “Art Deco Fashion: The Age of Elegance,” Kaylene Peoples takes a look at how fashion mirrors the social climate and observes the trends of the 1930s during the Great Depression; and Fashion Archives collates those trends and current retro Art Deco styles. 838 Media Group interviews and photographs model Andrea Baresic, our April 2020 Ash Gupta’s Face of the Month. Celebrity designer Angela Dean (DEANZIGN and Shaped by an Angel) talks about her career journey and the Black Design Collective. Order your copy today!
As far as runway, from Madrid Fashion Week are collections from Olivia and Encinar. Enjoy highlights from The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Red Cross Collection 2020 with images of singers Shania Twain, Meghan Trainor, and hosted by Tamron Hall with 26 celebrity models including Paris Hilton, Heather Graham, Jeri Ryan, Roselyn Sanchez, and more. The Blue Jacket Fashion Show during New York Men’s Fashion Week, bringing awareness to prostate cancer is a celebrity lineup with Dr. Oz, Bill Nye, Carson Kressley, Nigel Barker, Ty-Ron Mayes, and a host of others!
Cover to cover, we hope you enjoy what’s inside Issue #12 of Agenda. And remember, practice social distancing . . . you just might save a life!
