Aspiring and experienced Ladybrille film makers, the Levi’s Film Workshop which is FREE to the public is now open! Check them out at the MOCA in Los Angeles. Levi’s is hosting a series of collaborative film and video projects, weekly educational workshops, film screenings and they have an array of tools available for filmmakers of …
African Cinema: AMAA, African Oscars, 2011 Winners
The African Movie Academy Awards dubbed “Africa’s Oscars” was held late last month in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Filmmakers from the Democratic Republic of Congo swept the Award show with six wins, followed closely by South Africa and Ghana. While Jimmy Jean- Louis, Ladybrille Man of the Month for November 2010 who flew in from the …
Ladybrille Music: Magic System Woos the Ladies with “Cherie Coco”
Eleven years ago, when the African music group Magic System first tore up clubs, family parties and living rooms, around the world, with First Fool, or Premier Gaou in Ivorian slang, to many of us, we had no idea the song’s magical capabilities and immense listener adoration would propel it, for more than a decade, …
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 …