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EMERGE! Fashion Show New York Fashion Week.
Honored Vogue’s Contributing Editor Andre Leon Talley with Fashion Innovator Award presented by Diane Von Furstenberg. The evening was hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and Chavis Aaron.
Broad Street Ballroom (41 Broad Street, NYC) on February 14th, 2012
Showcasing Designers included: Jahi Fitzgerald and Evoli Fac’cion of Evoli Fac’cion, Michael Alan Stein of Michael Alan Stein Designs, Barbara Bates of Barbara Bates Designs, Elie Kuame of Elie Kuame Couture from Paris, France, Omar Villalobos and Gordana Rasic of Goca Designs and Terri Stevens, owner of Funkinbeautiful designs.
Michael Jackson in-person autograph
Image by Alan Light
This is the autograph Michael Jackson is seen signing in the accompanying photo; I still have it. He signed the piece of paper on the open palm of his hand and the mark to the left of the signature is where the pen's pressure initially poked the tip through the paper when he first started signing it as the paper rested on the palm of his other hand. He had to start again with lighter pressure.
My friend Donald Liggett, who is seen in the next photo as Michael hands him the freshly-signed autograph, first asked Michael to sign a bill because, while we had a pen, we didn't have any paper. Michael said he couldn't sign money because it was illegal to deface currency (which many people believe, but it isn't true), so Don dashed inside the hotel and got a piece of blank hotel stationery. He tore the piece of paper in half when the young girl from England (who is also seen in some other photos with her family) said she wanted an autograph, too. This autograph was signed on the other side of the top half of that piece of hotel stationery. If you turn it over it has "The Kahala Hilton" (the hotels name) and address at the top.
Don handed me the autograph after he got it from Michael, as a gift. Don passed away in 2008 of cancer.
NOTE: Beware of people on ebay "selling" this autograph. They don't have it - I do - and it is not for sale. Also beware of people forging copies of this signature on to Michael Jackson photographs and other items. Autograph fraud is rampant.
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