Photography/Art Direction: Sailey Williams Wardrobe: Inoisell Miranda Grooming: Blue Michael for Blue Michael Cosmetics Shoot Assistant: Sacha Azor Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge are the founders of Beekman1802, one of the fastest-growing lifestyle brands in the United States, and authors of the upcoming book, The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook Josh Kilmer-Purcell is an advertising executive and the New York Times best-selling author of I Am Not Myself These Days. Dr. Brent Ridge is a physician, and formerly a vice president at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Their decision to leave city life behind has been chronicled in Kilmer-Purcell’s national best seller, The Bucolic Plague, and on

XEX Magazine will be hosting this season’s NYC sanctioned fashion event BK FASHION WEEK{END} in collaboration with MTV Staying Alive Foundation (SAF) to celebrate an evening of fashion, music, culture and community at Industry City, the burgeoning creative hub and event space located at Industry City, 241 37th Street in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. Continuing its work in supporting aspiring designers around the globe, BKFW will present “Coming to America”, a fashion show featuring the Spring/Summer 2012 collections of visiting African born designers, including Washington Roberts (Nigeria), Raif Atelier (Togo) and Felix Anaman (Ghana). The four day event will include the Live 4 Fashion Benefit, an

Gabriella D’Abreau is a fine artist and illustrator based in Trinidad. Her style is dualistic in that it can be either intricate and realistic or expressive and non-representational. Gabriella enjoys both academic and experimental techniques and the balance they can lend to her work. She works with a variety of media but uses mostly acrylic paint, watercolor paint, pen and inks. Gabriella sees her artwork as in a constant state of becoming. As such, she encourages her audience to actively participate in the viewing of her work. The artist does not finish a work of art; rather, the viewer becomes an

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Photography/Director: Sailey Williams MUA: William Marshall Hair: Daniele Marinio Associate Editor(s) Sacha Azor Header Photo: Devon Cass When the idea for XEX to “Go Drag” the question then became “Who should we feature?” as there are so many popular NYC drag performers; as well as the queens of that popular drag show on LOGO. We then thought, who would we pay to see and tip heavily, that left us with non other than the Legendary Queen of Comedy Harmonica Sunbeam! Harmonica Sunbeam, The Legendary Queen of Comedy has been delighting audiences at nightclubs, cabarets, fundraising events and supermarket openings throughout the United States and abroad for over