Everything She Wants

According to the American Heart Association , more women die of cardiovascular disease than all forms of cancer.  But 80 percent of strokes and heart attacks in women could be prevented if women made healthy choices involving diet, exercise and abstinence from smoking. NY Collection Draped Blazer, $39.99 Show your support for heart health awareness by shopping at Macy's.  As the sponsor of the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Movement , the department store is offering a 20 percent discount storewide through Sunday, Feb. 5 to shoppers who wear red to any Macy's location . You can also shop online using the promo code, RED. Another way to show your support is to purchase a Red Dress Pin for $2 and Macy's will donate all sales to AHA's Go Red for Women Movement.

In my haste to escape the snow and slush, I almost missed a brush with glamour greatness. But thanks to a tourist snapping photos of a Macy's Herald Square window display, I slowed my rush hour roll down 34th Street long enough for a fashion history lesson. In honor of Black History Month, Macy's and Ebony Magazine have created a fabulous display celebrating the signature style of Ebony Fashion Fair founder Eunice W. Johnson .  During the '80s, I attended an Ebony Fashion Fair show with my mother.  The elaborate gowns and suits with architecturally stacked shoulder pads.  The dramatic hair and makeup.  The model sashays and twirls. For a young African-American woman, this traveling fashion show was better than Fashion week. Macy's tribute prompted me to learn more about Mrs. Johnson.   The store's website describes her as "a great couture client, friend of designers and voracious advocate for black women."  Not only did the Selma, Alabama native s...