Designers Daniça Lepen and and Jacques van der Watt, from Johannesburg label Black Coffee, were awarded the Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art and Culture 2009 in Berlin. (This video, which gives a glimpse of their work, is by TRACE TV) Each year the German organizers honor South African artists working in different disciplines. Last [...]
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black coffee
Posted in fashion, tagged art, Black Coffee, Danica Lepen, fashion, Jacques van der Watt, Johannesburg, Mercedes Benz Award, video on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
‘How Wearing Less Could Help Africa’
Posted in fashion, tagged Bantu, Ethiopia, fashion, swimsuits, Yodit Eklund, Yohannes Mekbebe, You can't make this stuff up on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
More power to the designers of the swimsuit, Ethiopians Yodit Eklund and her brother, Yohannes Mekbebe, of the label, Bantu, but was this headline necessary in The New York Times “Sunday Style” feature on Memorial Day beach clothes? You can’t make this stuff up.
racism and the runway
Posted in fashion, tagged fashion, fashion industry, Iman, not about Somali pirates, racism, Somalia, Ubah Hassan, video on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember this controversy? Model Iman talks with another model Ubah Hassan, and fellow Somali, about the role race plays in fashion in a “New York Magazine”-produced video. Via: TAKING YOU THROUGH MY STYLE MISADVENTURES IN PARIS.
POP’AFRICANA
Posted in fashion, tagged African fashion, fashion, magazines, media, Pop'Africana on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first issue certainly shook things up. The second is on its way.
Africa takes New York Fashion Week (2)
Posted in fashion, You can't make this stuff up, tagged African Fashion Collective, fashion, Mobolaji Dawodu, New York Fashion Week, Nkhensani Nkosi, Stoned Cherrie, The Fader, Xuly Bet on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted with vodpod A little late, but still worth checking out if you want to get a sense of contemporary African fashion design. Well, the most successful ones. The Fader Contributing Style Editor Mobolaji Dawodu interviews three of the four African designers whose work was showcased at the recent African Fashion Collective show during New [...]
Postmodernism
Posted in fashion, tagged fashion, Lovejozi, postmodernism, South Africa, TheColouredRange on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Click on the image which will take you to the website of clothing company, Love Jozi, and note the menu on the left. The New South Africa. The designs are cool, though.
“Africa” takes New York Fashion Week (1)
Posted in fashion, tagged African Fashion Collective, Alek Wek, fashion, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lamine Kouyate, Nduka Obaigbena, New York Fashion Week, Stoned Cherrie, Xuly Bet on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Guy Trebay in The New York Times See also the Seattle Post-Intelligentser slideshow of the African Fashion Collective. HT: Siddharta Mitter.
Namibia is a colonial fantasy (in NY Times Style Magazine)
Posted in fashion, photography, tagged fashion, magazine, Namibia, New York Times Style Magazine, photography, travel, travel writing on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The opening lines of the cover story of the most recent issue of the New York Times Style Magazine: “… I began perhaps the most fantastic single day in all my years of travel by riding up to a traditional Himba ‘‘village’’ — a small clutch of domed mud-and-thatch huts surrounding a pen for livestock, [...]
‘Much of the magic involved in leading a country is about looks’
Posted in fashion, Joseph Kabila, King Mohammed VI, Muammar Gaddafi on November 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Apparently that’s the most important qualification, according to men’s magazine, GQ. Those who make the cut: Thabo Mbeki (‘… Mbeki might be confused about the cause of AIDS, but the man knows how to dress… He could be a jazz musician or one of the best-dressed coaches in the NBA’); Joseph Kabila (‘may be the [...]
Africa is a Hipster
Posted in fashion on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… on the streets of Manhattan. So what is trendy next week?Spotted at The Fader Blog
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