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Best of African Fashions 2007, Ladybrille Reports

Hello hello! We hope 2007 was all you wanted it to be for you! We certainly had fun launching our blogazine, making new friends and discovering the talented, motivated and simply beautiful fashion and non-fashion personalities out there. Thanks to the individuals we had the privilege of interviewing who helped us raise our fashion, business, …

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Africa + Nollywood Makes the List of “Eighty Things to Watch in 2008”

“JWT, “the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and the fourth-largest full-service network in the world,yesterday, [r]eleased its list of 80 things to watch in 2008.” Africa was #1 on their list to watch for “foreign investment and development in.” Borrowing Kelly Rowland’s line from her hit song, “bump like this,” we say, “Africa told …

Events

“The Future . . .” is ‘Sole’ Sista Tosin Dekalu, Lawyer Turned Shoe Cobbler

As part of our pre-event coverage for “The Future Awards . . .” 2008, we selected some nominees we thought you would find interesting and will feature them until the event date scheduled for January 13th, 2008. We begin with a beautiful woman we think you will find quite interesting!Former Lawyer turned Shoe Cobbler,Tosin Dekalu, …

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“African Inspired” or Just Plain Stealing?

This 2007, we saw a global circulation of African fashions starting from Africa’s runways and extending to runways globally. Indeed, in our trend analysis of African fashions, we covered numerous Western and African designers cutting and shaping African prints into Western silhouettes; others incorporating African jewelries, scarves, head gears [gele] and much more in their …