Most of you might remember Stacey Dash as Dionne, from Clueless, I know I do! Ignoring the plot of movie entirely (which I’m not sure I actually remember - well, I remember it starting my obsessive, and yet to be fulfilled, need for a walk in closet), Stacey stood out to me, simply because she was a beautiful young black woman (playing a teenager) with braids, with a blonder than blonde best friend, going to school in Beverly Hills…
Minus the major, and minor differences, I watched this movie as a young teenager, during a sleep over with all my girlfriends, my blonde girlfriends, and so, like all young aspiring black models become obsessed with Naomi Campbell, I became obsessed with Stacey Dash. Not that I ever wanted to act or anything.

Stacey Dash, now forty two years old (though she looks 25!) has now released a collection of vintage inspired lingerie, in an interview with W Magazine, she states that she does not want to be seen as just another actress with a clothing line…

Quote: “It’s not Letters of Marque by Stacey Dash,” she points out. “It’s about the lingerie, not me.” Dash even proved her budding garment chops by making the trade-show rounds last fall, taking a booth at the Curve Expos in New York and Las Vegas—no easy task, as anyone who’s walked the mile-long aisles can attest. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life,” she remarks. “God bless the salesmen.”

Letters of Marque, literally, is a license to seize and capture. Translation? “When you wear Letters of Marque, you’re giving whoever you’re wearing it for permission to invade.”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE by VENESSA LAU on the W Magazine website.

Shown below are my picks from her collection, more information available online at: WWW.LETTERSOFMARQUE.COM

Here’s are some pictures of Stacey, from 1995s Clueless and now looking amazing at forty two!