By Marielle Bobo, Executive Director, Style & Special Projects
A publishing industry veteran with over 17 years of fashion and beauty media experience, Marielle Bobo is the Executive Director of Style & Special Projects for Interactive One. Widely known as a masterful creative director, Bobo joins iOne from EBONY Magazine, where, as Fashion & Beauty Director, she oversaw fashion and beauty coverage, including creative direction and styling for celebrity cover shoots and trend features.
Bobo began her impressive career as an agent at Wilhelmina Models. She soon transitioned to Allure magazine as a market editor covering accessories and fashion. Later, Bobo joined the style department at Hearst Magazine’s CosmoGirl and would go on to lend her expertise to Essence, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), Vanity Fair, Glamour and Harper’s Bazaar.
Marielle has appeared on various television outlets including ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s The Today Show and CBS’ Entertainment Tonight. In 2015, she was invited to the White House among an esteemed group of fashion luminaries to participate in Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Fashion Education Workshop. Later that year, she was named one of Hello Beautiful’s 30 Most Powerful Black Women in Fashion.
Reebok teamed up with New Orleans rapper Curren$y to remix one of its OG basketball silhouettes. Available now, the Reebok Classic Question x Curren$y is inspired by three of the artist’s biggest passions—dope rides, hip-hop, and basketball.
The icy white leather upper is an homage to the artist’s notoriously decked out whip, featuring blue accents and a jeweled heel in molded chrome engraved with a jet logo. But the automotive nods don’t stop there—the candy green and chromed out shoe box mimics details of his ride as well. The box opens like his trunk does, and there is a finger hole where the key hole would be on the trunk.
But the coolest accents are the “Stem Green” outsole and iridescent toe that transforms from green to blue to purple, replicating Curren$y’s Pilot Talk album cover. His moniker, “Spitta,” is printed on the sides with a nod to his NOLA crew, “Jet Life,” featured on the tongue.
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The new silhouette debuted at New Orleans shop Sneaker Politics yesterday and dropped today on Reebok.com for $170.