You may have seen this chick inside the pages of Vogue and other fashion magazine.
She’s all over Lipstick Alley.
Everyone wants to know: how does Genevieve Jones do it?
She’s notorious on the New York social scene for being one of the few black faces at mostly white parties and soirees. She’s managed to get sort of elite access to New York’s high society. Rumor is her lifestyle is financed by a rich, white man, who she was having an affair with some time ago according to reports. Recently, she has been seeing a guy named Zac–something. Posen?
She’s hardly pictured at any events you’d normally attend. She’s Trinidadian but once would never know.
In other words, Genevieve is mysterious. The rumors abound. She’s “in” and “they” like her. She lives a fairtytale life. She’s managed to defeat stereotypes and surprise. She’s “well-connected” without appearing in Maxim, hip hop videos, but only the gossip columns. Publicists ask for her by name and designers give her free clothes. Again, she doesn’t “work”, but last year was featured in Vogue as a designer on the rise for her jewelry line. Major publicity coup.
You figure it out. Another “alphanistic” mystery.
I must admit I’m conflicted. I read this and the quest for it article to find out more about Ms. Jones, but I want her to keep her mysterious allure. You and Tia did a good job giving me just enough while protecting her basic right to privacy.
Part of me is appalled that some would even question how she got to where she is now. It irks me that people think some rumoured affair got her to her current state. Many people have had affairs and do not gain. I’ve never met the woman, but her photos exude sophistication, grace, innocence and glamour in quite a devastating package. It seems only natural that she would be part of the old money socialite world yet all the while still have the ability to mingle with people of different socio-economic backgrounds.
Then again I appreciate the rarity to gain full acceptance to that world whether you’re rich and/or White. Here she is having some sort of African heritage (many Trinis are mixed) and even if she comes from financially prosperous roots – she is still a newcomer to the scene that used to include the late, great Nan Kempner.
She may not “work” but she is definitely “working it!” I’m not hardly mad at her. Do your thing Genevieve!
I THINK SHE IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL AND FABULOUS…
DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHAT HER MYSPACE PAGE IS?? BECAUSE I WOULD LOVE TO ADD HER
Zac Posen is gay and is a designer, they aren’t seeing eachother, they’re good friends….yea, i don’t understand the fascination with her, but if I met her, maybe I would get it.
I was ONCE super fascinated by Gen Jones as well which is why as a professional blogger, I interviewed her for my blog 3 years ago, yes a few months before the infamous Wall Street Journal article–which she hates by the way because f its NUMEROUS inaccuracies.
The thing that make Gen GREAT is her style and grace PERIOD! The affair, the fact that she is of Trinidadian decent ( not Trinidadian, there is a difference) blah blah are all “incidental”. If anyone bothered to check in her numerous photo galleries in Wire Image, Patrick McMullan etc. or if anyone ever happened to meet others who are close to her they’d realize she DID not come out of NOWHERE. She has been on the “scene” for 6 maybe 8 years and before that her close circle wasn’t being photographed they were just “BEING”…does this all make sense? PS she does work, just not at a desk at a 9-5 job!
If not google my article , The Incomparable Genevieve Jones, dated 06.28.06
Best,
Tia Walker
Ahhh I can’t!
“What happens in Vegas stay in Vegas”
@THC SPILL IT! LOL
Ahhhhh Yes Genevieve..
Im not gonna touch this one!
:::lips closed:::
Pimping isn’t easy but it sure is fun.
yeah..and she look like one of the Olsen twins… But Is it because she fits into the upper realms of high (white) society that she is a legend? Could she do the same thing in the hood amongst her own people? Things that make you go hmmm….
I vaguely remember a magazine (was it Vanity Fair?) doing a piece on Genevieve and how she came out of nowhere to become a socialite.
I personally find her to be a bit “blah”, but that’s just me. Whatever she’s doing, it must be working for her.
And the story continues about Genevieve Jones…she’s a legend, the girl should write a book!