Virtual Cocktail Making Class

Musa Jackson, born and raised in Harlem is a true renaissance man. One of the pioneering Black male models discovered by the beauty editor of GQ magazine in 1983, he modeled for GQ, Vogue, New York Fashion Of the Times magazines and walked the runways in Paris and Milan for Jean Paul Gaultier. He would become Harlem’s first ever international top Black male model and the first Black male model for The Gap in a nationwide mainstream campaign. As a screenwriter he sold his first screenplay to Walt Disney’s Hollywood Pictures and was one of the winners of the American Gem Short Screenplay Award. At New York Fashion Week he co-produced fashion shows for Diane Von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, and Betsy Johnson. In Harlem produced Nona Hendryx first visual mixed media Art show, posthumously Lena Horne’s 100 Birthday tribute, and the classic film Claudine 45th Anniversary Tribute. He had his own society column in Uptown Magazine naming him “The Harlem Ambassador” He is the CEO and Editor In Chief of Ambassador Digital Magazine, the fastest growing weekly digital magazine hybrid with a YouTube/ Facebook Live featuring the some of most diverse group of influential individuals in the culture. He makes his tv debut in the Amazon tv series “Harlem” coming this fall and co-stars in award winning musician Questlove directorial debut Summer of Love a documentary chronicling the untold true story of the public greatest outdoor concert in Harlem history in the summer of 1969. Which won Sundance Audience and Grand Jury awards and debuts on Hulu July 2021.

Even though I’ve always been me and never been ashamed or closeted, I realize in this day and age it’s important to many that I don’t leave out that I’m a part of the queer community. So I am a Black Gay man/ father/ community leader/ business owner. Maybe knowing that will inspire someone struggling with their own identity.

-Musa Jackson

Internationally renowned designer and artist Rebecca Moses intrepidly criss-crosses a panorama of creative spheres. As one of the first American designers to enter the European market in the early ‘90s, she not only witnessed the globalization of design, but also played an important role in bringing down the boundaries of fashion and lifestyle, gaining international recognition by breathing life into two dusty old Italian companies that desperately needed repositioning and creating a luxury house under her own label. Moses established a newly refined paradigm of international style in all three companies, inspired by the diversity of the American spirit and a true respect for European tradition and craftsmanship.

As a designer, Moses thought globally well before it became the mantra of the large luxury goods conglomerates. She began travelling for her design work in New York at the age of 20, spending significant time in Europe, Asia and the mid-East. Her discerning eye, refined taste and sensibility were nurtured and cultivated as she sourced and manufactured in these distant locations, immediately captivating the attention of fashion’s elite players from press and retail, all of whom championed her talent, grace and personal style. She relocated to Italy after falling in love, closing her namesake label in the United States, and began a new chapter, personally and professionally. She succeeded Gianni Versace as the creative director of Genny, repositioning it for a new era of luxury dressing and the world took note, poising her to reopen her eponymous label on the world stage.