Rough Suede…
SUEDE magazine had it’s debut in Nov 2004 as a quarterly publication and was to go monthly in April of 2005 when ESSENCE COMMUNICATIONS and TIME INC. announced that the urban, streetwise, “Black Vogue” was going on “hiatus”…never to be seen again. I loved this magazine. It was so exciting and colorful visually and graphically, covering fashion and pop culture all under editor/diva SUZANNE BOYD. The official line was that “more time and resources would be needed to further develop this brand” which translates to “it wasn’t making money”. But really it takes more time to get people to notice and become loyal to anything new, especially the multicultural audience they were after. This photo is from one of the amazing Suede magazine beauty spreads with makeup by AYAKO (represented by Jed Root Inc.) and photographed by MICHAEL BRANDT (represented by Jump Management).
Alicia Keys and Suzanne Boyd
