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Already looking past my exams which are around the corner to a sunny summer on some beach in Venice and Barcelona which are on my stops for my Euro trip next month and since i plan to hit the beach, the need to invest in swimwear has reared its annoying face. Thanks to River Island though, the dilemma is half solved. Gonna cop this and a few others….
Alter Gogo is a diptych portrait series featuring grandmothers who play football with the Gogo Getters Football Club in Orange Farm, a large township in South Africa. For them, playing the football has become a passport to a better life, giving the women social relevance in their community, as well as better health. Playing football is their solution to many social and physiological problems like diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and alcohol addiction. Alter Gogo also offers an alternative image of African women. Quite often in the mainstream imagination, African women are located in the sphere of “tradition”. They are presented – if at all – as victims of oppression, who have been forced to submit to tribal customs, with no authority, freedom or conception of self. Women with sad faces often complement the ever-pervasive images of Africa as a continent of famine, poverty and violence. Alter Gogo challenges all of these stereotypes as well the role attributed to women in their old age. The grandmothers’ regalia, their proud postures on the soccer field along with the charm of their intimate spaces and loves create a powerful socio-cultural scenario in which soccer is the means and expression of a new gender and generation identity.
New York based Nigerian designer Washington Roberts recently presented the AW12 collection for his eponymous label. His signature aesthetic and cuts flowed through the collection. I especially love his use of a more varied collection of fabrics in glittering hues creating the elegant aw color palette. The label continues to grow from strength to strength and word has it, that it would be launching in Lagos, Nigeria soon.
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An avant-garde fashion design challenge created by Diana Opoti and targeted at emerging designers from across Africa.
The red dress avant-garde Designer Challenge is an emerging designer contest in the experimental category that has a two-fold purpose; to create a platform for emerging designers while attracting attention of the lifestyle diseases of the Heart stroke, high blood pressure as well as lung disease from lifestyle choices or habits – smoking, drinking, stress and unhealthy eating. 16-20 Winning designs will be put up for an auction online to help raise awareness of heart disease in women.
Go RED Campaign– this is not a red dress it’s a red alert
The symbol of the red dress is universally accepted, the red dress as a universal women’s image and red as the colour of health, life and vibrancy but also of warning. In short, it is not a red dress –it’s a red alert!
The symbol being a red dress – the challenge calls for ALL entries to be on dresses and all predominantly red material or fabric
THE CHALLENGE
Have a keen eye and passion for design? Are you are current student or completed your course in fashion design and looking for an opportunity that will thrust you into the fashion world?
Well here is Your chance To Contest,
(Interested Designers Should send an email To avantgardechallenge@gmail.com in order to get the Application form)
2nd prize USD 1500
The Challenge is open for entries and close on July 10, 2012.
What are the categories you can enter in?
Fashion & millinery OR Sustainable Fashion Design.
Designers can create fascinators or hats to match outfits (optional) these will not be judged.
USE FABRIC/materials OF ANY TEXTURE, DESIGN but predominantly red
Get Your Form Today!!!!!
UK based social enterprise iROCK! UK and international fashion and lifestlye magazine FAB are proud to announce the second set of designers confirmed for the Tribes of Africa (TOA) fashion fundraiser scheduled for Saturday 26 May to take place at the prestigious Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. The night which will boast some of Africa’s finest in fashion to showcase in front of an elite audience including South Africa Deputy High Commissioner Bogiwe Qwabe, Nigerian media mogul Ben Murray-Bruce flying in from Nigeria specifically for the night, CNN 2009 Hero Betty Makoni, UK-based Zambian property tycoon Caroline March, footballers John Shittu and Sodjoe brothers is set to be one of the most memorable black tie fundraisers for Africans in the diaspora and fans of African fashion.
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This Summer will be great for you all, hopefully. The IAD will be hosting a charity Basketball match between Abuja and Kaduna this Summer and you are all welcome to take part in it. Official dates and locations are yet to be announced but do check back with us for more information.
The Power Issue of StyleMania Magazine features Biola Alabi, the MD Mnet Africa; she speaks on the innovations at Mnet presently as well as Big Brother Africa-the Couple Game, which begin in a few days. This issue also features fashion editorials with Oluchi Orlandi, Ojy Okpe, Millen Magese and profiles of such notable figures as Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Evelyn Oputu, Deola Sagoe, Tara Fela-Durotoye and many more.
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Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Party of Ministers annual convention. A gathering of Africa’s most unscrupulous, ostentation and depraved elite. Crooked businessmen, corrupt government officials, arms dealers and many others gather here today to discuss conspiratorial agendas.
Written, Directed by Abba Makama
Styled by Niyi Okuboyejo for the Post Imperial
International acclaimed modeling competition – Elite Model Look which takes place in over 80 different countries is back, bigger and better for its 2012 edition. The prestigious competition has tremendously accelerated the careers of many aspiring and upcoming talents to become International top models and this edition will not be different. Elite is offering thousands of girls and boys the opportunity to live their dreams and walk in the footsteps of top models like Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Tyson Beckford, David Agbodji, Ty Ogunkoya, Cindy Crawford and Gisele Bundchen. The relentless Elite Nigeria team will go to Calabar, Enugu, Abuja, Delta and Lagos for castings from Saturday 2nd June 2012 – Saturday 30th June 2012. With the Elite Model Look Nigeria celebrating its 5th year anniversary, it aims to offer greatest opportunities for women and men to take part in one of the most renowned modeling contest and to keep up its reputation of being the world’s most prestigious agency.
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As part of their limited edition ‘Colonial’ collection high street brand Topman employed the use of the uber trendy African print. If your looking to invest in African print pieces for your wardrobe this summer there’s this shirt and the option of the Zara African print tee.
If looking good was a crime, Chuck would be serving a life sentence on death row lol but good thing it isn’t. The British/Nigerian model constantly updates his instagram account @ThatKidChuck giving us a sneak peek into his world of modeling.
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Geo and Mombasa prints, Kitenge and Kanga cloth are some of the details in the spanking hot Asos Africa ss12 collection that just landed on their site. As i type some of the pieces are sold out and i’m sure the rest are flying off Asos warehouses into the hands of waiting fashionistas the world over. ASOS AFRICA channels a utilitarian vibe and re-interprets classic styles with a modern twist by experimenting with textures; slouchy jersey basics, shell tops and vibrant printed dresses with a clean sportswear silhouette.
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Topman, Zara and now Asos are all cashing in on the African print by sending out dope stuff made with the print. I recently invested in the Zara African print tee and i would probably invest in this one too as soon as we start to see more of the sun here in London. It’s decently priced at £18, £1.99 lower than the Zara African print tee and it also features luxe details like a buttoned down contrast micro collar.
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Supermodel Ojy Okpe & Nollywood Actor Mike Ezurounye look smashing on the double covers of the new issue of Complete Fashion Magazine. Available on magazine stands and roadside retailers now.
INSPIRATION FOR COLLECTION:
“Imagine you could wear really glamorous and stylish clothes jetskiing or wakeboarding….”
These were perhaps the subconscious thoughts in my mind last December when I spent the best part of my christmas holiday speeding through the creeks of Calabar and Opobo Kingdom. ‘Need for Glam’, the ALALI Boutique A/W 2012 Collection is inspired by surface water sports’ wear and the glamour of the 1950s unsuspectingly fused together to create the most wearable and delectable collection. Think speedy, glamourous and intriguing. For shapes I looked to the 1950s, for detail I looked to the panelling in sportswear and for colour, I looked to the landscape of the South-South of Nigeria.
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Venue: Aimas Room, 32,Alexander Avenue Ikoyi (Opposite Clear Essence Spa)
>> Date: Tuesday 1st May, 2012
>> Time: 12 noon till 7pm
Been getting loads of messages from people who want to buy original Uni Tee by Allen & Fifth not the copy by Terry Tha Rapman and have no idea where to get it from. If you’re based in Nigeria head to giddimint.com and if you’re based elsewhere head to allenandfifth.com
Daisy Mak shares with us images of the Virgo’s Lounge Summer 2012 collection which by the way i’m totally blown away by. Virgo’s Lounge sticks to their signature aesthetic and yet plays around it skillfully to create pop colored floral romantic pieces. My favorite collection from them so far, and looks like they can only get better at their craft.
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Tanzanian designer AJ Masudi who i recently featured on the blog just had his graduate collection lookbook and short film recorded and i got the exclusive behind the scenes images which give us a closer look at the interesting print and more silhouettes from the Derby Uni Final year fashion design student.
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