AN IMAGE I CAPTURED OF LISA LESLIE,

TIA AND TAMARA MOWRY, LISA INVITED CELIA AND I

OVER TO CELEBRATE MY HISTORIC COVER FOR 

BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE FOR THEIR 

30TH ANNIVERSAY ISSUE IN JULY OF 2000.

THIS IMAGE IS AUGUST 2000 AND REMEMBERING

SO MANY EPIC TIMES AT HER HOME IN LADERA HEIGHTS

WITH HER MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND SISTER.

WE WOULD OFTEN PLAY A BOARD GAME WHILE 

WAITING FOR HER GRANDMOTHER'S GUMBO

AND CORN FRITTERS. REWINDING BACK TO WHEN

LISA WAS HONORED IN BEVERLY HILLS FOR HER

TIRELESS EFFORTS TO UPLIGHT THE LIVES 

OF YOUNG GIRLS, WE DESIGNED HER A PALE PINK

SUIT TRIMMED IN MATCHING FOX WE HADE 

CUSTOM DYED AT OUR FAVE FURRIER IN BEVERLY HILLS.

THAT EVENING AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE HOTEL

AT THE INTERSECTION OF RODEO DRIVE AND

WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, CELIA AND I SAT WITH

LISA, HER MOTHER, SHAQ, HIS MOTHER, JODIE FOSTER,

VAL KILMER, BOB SAGET AND TERRY BRADSHAW.

JODIE LEANED OVER AND ASKED LISA IF HER 

HAUTE COUTURE CREATION WAS BY DIOR AND

LISA REPLIED, NO, BY KILGOUR & SWEET, 

AND IN FACT HERE THEY ARE! JODIE STARTED

APPLAUDING US, TO MENTION, THE SUIT HAD A

MATCHING PINK FOX MUFF THAT DRAPED OVER

ONE SHOULDER WHEN NOT BEING ROCKED.

LISA MODELED FOR IN SEVERAL HAUTE COUTURE

SHOWS WHEN HER SCHEDULE ALLOWED AND

EVERYTHING WE DESIGNED FOR HER WAS PURCHASED,

SHE PLACED SIGNIFICANT ORDERS. THIS WAS OUR 

PRIVATE LABEL COLLECTION FOR DION SCOTT OF

BEVERLY HILLS, ON ROBERTSON BOULEVARD - MICHAEL KILGORE