“•Born and named after her great grandmother ‘Elizabeth Loye” who was a singer and performer throughout her life, Liz ‘Loye’ Ogumbo began singing at about age four. Her father taught her songs from the Luo tribe in Kenya, her home language and sooner than later, she was singing “Isabella ma nyar Asembo,” “I be lady …
“UYANDA MBULI is an Award-winning Style Icon, Designer and Owner of South Africa’s famous fashion house Diamond Face Couture, also known as ‘DFC’, which is at the fore-front of changing the fashion landscape in Africa. Diamond Face Couture has a flagship store at the heart of Johannesburg’s northern suburbs in Rosebank, at the THE ZONE …
“Black Coffee consistently gives local fashion a distinctive face with its deeply referential, meticulously engineered and ultimately divergent approach. Designer Jacques van der Watt’s 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 …
Photocredit: Kola Oshalusi 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, with an emphasis on the African woman in the diaspora. Our coverage includes stories on capital, access to …
-Photocredit: Kola Oshalusi 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, with an emphasis on the African woman in the diaspora. Our coverage includes stories on capital, access to …
“Nicolas Petrou graduated in 1993 with a Master of Arts degree in fashion design from Central Saint Martin’s School in London. He has been designing for various companies in New York including his own name(PETROU) with a store on Madison Avenue. He recently launched a high end menswear collection under the name PETROU\MAN. PETROU\MAN is …
