ASD Founder Partners With Calypso St. Barth’s For Mother’s Day
New York – There’s a short list of things I’m proud of and I’m happy to share this with you: the opportunity to model with my mom and sister for Calypso St. Barth’s Mother’s Day Campaign. Titled, Generations of Style, this campaign was all about the people we all love the most: mothers. Through a [...]
Accra, Ghana – Ghana Fashion & Design Week has made history this month. They are now the first fashion week on the Continent to partner with high end publication, Italian Vogue. According to their partnership, Vogue Italia will get exclusive access to runway shows as well as backstage features and interviews. The Vogue Italia team [...]
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Mombasa, Kenya – For forty years, the sleek canvas sneakers known as Kenya Vintage (seen in photo above) have been a staple in Kenya. The unisex shoe, favored by men, is crafted from all natural cotton’s and rubbers culled from Kenya. For the first time, the shoe is being made available for purchase in the [...]
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This week emerging film critic, Zeba Blay, critiques a selection of films from NYAFF’s 19th annual film festival. Below, her review of Mama Africa, a tour de force about the life of singer, Miriam Makeba. New York – Mama Africa, the new documentary by Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki, has launched the 19th Annual African Film [...]
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New York – For it’s nineteenth annual edition, the New York Africa Film Festival (in conjunction with the Lincoln Center Film Society) has chosen a poignant theme: homecoming. Under this umbrella, it shelters a solid line up of about a dozen films. The films take us on a journey from South Africa where [...]
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Fashion week is not complete without us, the media: fashion bloggers, magazine editors and photographers. As we have come to see over the years, bloggers are the new front-row at fashion shows. In the recent years, bloggers have earned fashion street cred, walking and working hand in hand with the editors. I managed to get [...]
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The beautiful and talented Lira EDITOR’S NOTE: In case you missed this interview with Lira, we decided to re-publish! If you don’t know Lira, consider yourself introduced. A mega-talent and platinum-selling success in Africa for many years, now the award-winning songstress is ready to make her way into the hearts and minds of stateside music [...]
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Loincloth and Ashes redefined African prints when they showcased their Autumn/Winter 2012 collection recently. I couldn’t help but notice everyone’s jaw dropping in the packed Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week-JoBurg tent. The brand’s utilization of the African print was innovative and fresh, changing the way people see and wear African prints. The collection was very wearable boasting [...]
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DRAMATIC! That was the starting sequence of some of the most memorable shows at the first ever Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Jo Burg. The four day fashion extravaganza showcases the very best of South African designers and upcoming talent in the field of fashion. Avant It was the first I heard or seen of the [...]
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Lagos, Nigeria - Today, Africa Fashion Week ended off as it started: dramatically. Audiences were treated to a style spectacular that began in one tent with a strong line up of designers and ended in a larger tent, complete with performances and cameos on the runway by Alek Wek, hair stylist Mr. Sarpong and a [...]
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Sophie Okonedo, NigeriaActress
Barack Hussein Obama, KenyaPresident of the United States of America
Flaviana Matata, TanzaniaModel/Miss Tanzania
Wale, NigeriaRap Artist
Gugulethu Mbatha-Raw, South AfricaActress
