What should you be rocking this summer? Here is our 5 African-Inspired summer trend choices from the recently completed South Africa Fashion Week Summer 2011 Show. COLOR- Color is a necessity during the summer. Energize, excite and uplift your wardrobe with a dash of color like the one here from Amanda Laird Cherry’s SA Fashion …
SAVE THE DATE: Swahili Fashion Week, November 3rd-5th, 2011
Medical doctor turned fashion designer, Mustafa Hassanali, is at work again with his team preparing for the 4th Annual Swahili Fashion Week. Ladybrille fashion conscious Tanzanians, mark your calendars in advance so you do not miss the date. In the meantime, below is the scoop of what event organizers have been up to as part …
Clive Rundle, South Africa Fashion Week Summer 2011 (Pictures)
Born in Zimbabwe, Clive Rundle grew up in South Africa where he studied fashion in Johannesburg. He goes as a constructionist rather than a fashion designer with intricate structure the essence of his design. The inherent structuring of his patterns can lead the translation in any direction, frugal, avant-garde, classical, elaborate and contemporary. His language …
Black Coffee, South Africa Fashion Week Summer 2011 (Pictures)
Black Coffee consistently gives local fashion a distinctive face with its deeply referential, meticulously engineered and ultimately divergent approach. Their design ethos embraces contrast and re-shapes traditions with an intuitive twist. The result is mysteriously familiar yet refreshingly unique occupying a space somewhere between history and imagination. Black Coffee received the coveted Mercedes Benz Art …
Amanda Laird Cherry, South Africa Fashion Week Summer 2011 (Pictures)
Durban based designer, Amanda Laird Cherry, is one of South Africa’s most established designers. The acclaim she has received is as universal as it gets in South African fashion, with publications as varied as Y-Mag and Time Magazine shouting her praises. Amanda is one of a handful of South African designers who has fused the …
African Designers: Farai Simoyi Fall 2011 Collection (Video)
In February, we told you about the debut of Farai Simoyi’s Fall collection on the eve of New York Fashion Week Fall 2011. Now watch APTV.com’s TV coverage of the event below. This text will be replaced Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of …