

What: This two-day event includes fashion shows highlighting streetwear fashion and swimsuits, with local vendors selling jewelry, clothing and accessories. The shows are run by volunteers and include spring and fall seasons.Įvent: The Exchange: RVAFW Marketplace” benefiting Honor Loan RVAFW traces its beginnings to Virginia Commonwealth University, where students launched the forerunner to RVA Fashion Week in 2008. “As a long-running community event,” Budd says, “we also want to use our platform to raise money and awareness for local charities.” Spring Fashion Week will benefit HomeAgain, Honor Loan, Network of Enterprising Women, NAMI Virginia, and Forward Foundation. SWV is one of the world’s top-selling female R&B groups, and is indeed striving continuously to be one of the hardest working female groups in the entertainment industry today! One other Top 10 R&B hit from “It’s About Time,” “Always on My Mind,” followed late in 1993. 1 on the pop chart, while “Right Here/Human Nature” reached No.

1 R&B singles in a row: “Weak” and “Right Here/Human Nature,” a remix of their first single that featured samples of Michael Jackson’s hit “Human Nature.” “Weak” also hit No. 2 hit, “I’m So Into You,” that established the trio as a commercial force early in 1993. The release of “It’s About Time” was preceded by “Right Here” in the fall of 1992.


The follow-up, “Do Me!”, also reached No. Poison’s title track topped the R&B singles chart and crossed over to No.(It’s since been certified quadruple platinum.) A 1991 remix album, ( WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album ), went gold. 5 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum within weeks. BBD’s 1990 debut album, Poison, hit No.They did so at the suggestion of producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who’d become superstars on the strength of their work with Janet Jackson. Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe formed BBD while New Edition was on hiatus in 1990.This innovative approach yielded such hits as “Poison” and “Do Me!” Formed by members of the R&B boy band New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe arrived in the early ’90s with a sound they described as “mentally hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop feel appeal to it”.
