Jean Paul Gaultier Celebrates Black Power

As we prepare for Arise Capetown Fashion Week and gorgeous African models strutting the runway, we take inspiration from Jean Paul Gaultier’s Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2009 Men’s Wear collection. Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion …

Designer Line Up, Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010

IMG announced today the line up of fashion designers who will show at New York Fashion Week Spring/summer 2010. It is a line up of designers  known for their delicious designs. There are a few newcomers like the ThisDay/Arise African Fashion Collective who showed this past fall. For the African Fashion Collective show, we already …

Global Fashion: Lanvin Spring/Summer 2010

There is something about Lanvin’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection that reminds of Nigeria’s Emmy Collins refined yet fiercely independent point of view. Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion and celebrating the brilliant woman in business and leadership, …

Givenchy: Morocco Obsessed, Paris Fashion Week Autumn/Winter ‘09/10

John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Julien Macdonald are some of the magnificent talents that have gone through the House of Givenchy. Italian designer Ricardo Tisci joins the list with his Morocco inspired Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 collection which he showed at Paris Fashion Week. Tisci made North Africa his obsession as he displayed pant suits in off …