“Exclusively funky fresh! New for 2010! OH! Nana unisex high top convertible trainer. Complete with a self fabricated bag! Kente print! Top is removable and reversible! Wear as a high top trainer or as a flat pump! Branded logo embroidered onto non printed side. Uppers 95Cotton 5% PU, Rubber sole Suitable for Vegans and Vegetarians” …
Is African Fashion Ready for the World?
“Fashion Week with Thierry Henry, Christiano Ronaldo, David Beckham and his ultra-stylish wife Victoria seated on the front-row is probably what many would expect to see at a European fashion capital. If the organizers of the upcoming Africa Fashion Week have their way, however, this could be what we are due to see at this …
Africa’s Influence in the Fashion industry
“A long way from the World Cup epicentres of Johannesburg and Durban, catwalkers in New York and Paris are already marching to an African beat. And why not? If global business will have its eye on all things African this month, chiming with the prevailing mood makes economic as well as sartorial sense. The work …
VOGUE Africa? No. Thank you Very Much I’ll Pass!
If I have to read or hear one more person or group call for a VOGUE Africa, I will scream! I am irritated and annoyed with the seemingly inferiority complex that seems so innate among many Africans. Read my writing: Africa DOES NOT NEED A VOGUE AFRICA! Even VOGUE knows this. Paris based Cameroonian Photograper …
Orleans Designs by Hazel Aggrey-Orleans, Spring/Summer 2010 COCO Collection
Well before African fashion was considered a fashionable topic and the ankara fabric gained momentum in the West the way it has, Ladybrille Magazine predicted “African inspired blouses and dresses will become main staples in the West like the modern takes we see with Kimonos.” We were seen as “very ambitious” with our predictions. Our predictions, however, …
Ladybrille Fashion Police- Thula Sindi Audi Joburg Fashion Week 2010 A/W
Last week Thula Sindi told BBC, he wouldn’t “be caught dead” in the new designs by the ANC promoting FIFA 2010 in South Africa. That is exactly how we feel about some of the designs he showed this season at Audi Joburg Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2010. The Ladybrille women in us would not be caught dead in …