The NYLA Report (pronounced ni*lah) is a daily fix of pop culture, fashion, music and up-to-the-minute celeb news from New York to Los Angeles and everything in between. Founded by Asia Willis in January 2010, The NYLA Report is growing rapidly, while providing Fashion Week coverage, red carpet highlights, buzzworthy music videos and hot celeb interviews. The NYLA Report is an exciting online editorial experience offering the fashion obsessed a user-friendly interface. Stay tuned to The NYLA Report to get your immediate entertainment access and to make sure you’re staying on top of the fashion world.

The NYLA Crew:

Asia Willis
Editor-in-Chief
asia@thenylareport.com
Asia is a Los Angeles-based fashion blogger and founder of The NYLA Report (pronounced ni*lah). Since an early age, she’s been obsessed with fashion and pop culture. She freelanced for various magazines and websites, including Us Weekly . She reported live from New York Fashion Week and interviewed top people in the fashion industry including Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, Harper’s Bazaar contributing editor Mary Alice Stephenson and celeb stylist Phillip Bloch.
Follow her on Twitter at @AsiaWillis

Justin Spade
Senior Writer/Assistant to Editor-in-Chief
justin@thenylareport.com
In the words of Asia Willis herself, “Justin Spade is fierce”. Justin is currently attending Central Michigan University where he’s seeking a degree in Public Relations and Communications, after which he hopes to attend Parsons for his Fashion Marketing degree. Justin loves all things pop culture and fashion, and studying both is inspiring to him. “This is basically my dream job”, says Justin on working with The NYLA Report.
Follow him on Twitter at @justinspade

Shelby Davis
Senior Writer
shelby@thenylareport.com
Shelby currently lives in Chicago, where she’s studying Photography and Art History at Columbia College. She has worked in various departments of the fashion industry. In the past year, she had the privilege of covering New York Fashion Week  and working for designer Alberta Ferretti in the NY sales office. She’s incredibly inspired by Patricia Field, Tim Walker and the art that has provided a foundation for great fashion.

Jenessa Eadeh
Contributing Writer
jenessa@thenylareport.com
Jenessa is a student at Michigan State University, studying Marketing and Apparel/Textiles. She’s learning how to create fabulous clothes and sell them. She has a passion for spreading good fashion sense and aspires to do so for the rest of her life. She always believed that beauty exists not only on billboards and in magazines, but in everything and everyone we come across everyday — all it takes it a little style.
Follow her at @jenessaann

Malika Ritchie
New York Correspondent
malika@thenylareport.com
Malika, a Washington Apple by way of the south, has recently relocated to the Big Apple. She graduated with her degree in Fashion Marketing from the Art Institute of Seattle, while working under a notable style editor and major designers for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. She is now buzzing from borough to borough in the concrete jungle of New York City. When she’s not busy you can find her trying gain one more hour of sleep or desperately trying to win yet another pick-up game of ping pong in Bryant Park.
Follow her @MalikaRitchie 

Liz Parker
Contributing Film Reviewer
liz@thenylareport.com
Liz is a University of Michigan graduate with a degree in Creative Writing and Literature who loves going to the movies. She is the founder of yesnofilms.com, a film blog which was created in January 2010. Liz writes for the Detroit Examiner (examiner.com/detroit) and her movie reviews are also published at freeismylife.com. She is probably not as knowledgeable about fashion as her co-writers are, but she does love New York City, and hopes to visit LA one day.
Follow her on Twitter at @yesnofilms.

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