Showing posts with label african-inspired. Show all posts
Showing posts with label african-inspired. Show all posts

Monday, 12 July 2010

Oh Africa!

You guessed right! The theme for this week is Africa. Inspired by all things African and exploring the world of Africa's blooming fashion industry; African inspired pieces from the high street to high end stores. Today's collage features African inspired works from foreign stores and designers.




Bantu Wax Verde bandeau bikini
185 GBP - brownsfashion.com
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Mama Africa Color Blocked Dress
$299 - yoanabaraschi.com











From Christian Louboutin to L.A.M.B to Blackberry, international brands and labels have drawn inspiration from Africa and its resplendent culture and applied to it Western fashion concepts. This has served as motivation for burgeoning African designers because a platform has been set for their work to receive global recognition in the fashion world.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

The African Lady

With her bold unapologetic fashion sense, style must have been implanted in the African lady's DNA. Unperturbed by gazing 'fat' eyes, nothing gets in the way of her insatiable thirst for attention, style, her flair for fashion, colour and vibrance. I present to you, The African Lady:

Complete with 3 styles of tying the 'gele', all I can think about when I look at this collage is skentele, skontolo and bold! Naturally, the African lady is a bit of a show off. So, jewellery is important in her wardrobe... gold and coral. I would have loved to feature traditional dress styles like the iro and buba, unfortunately, I couldn't find any in webstores. So my collage features African inspired fashion as well as works from African designers including an Ituen Basi purse designed my dear friend Odiri of T.W.O, who interned with Ituen Basi. Yes, I dare to market my friends on this one. It's my blog :-D. Moving on... To complete her outfit, she clings to attention grabbing arm candy like the Louis Vuitton Alma bag.

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P.s: The dresses featured are by Ghanian designer Christie Brown available at Myasho and American designer Boxing kitten and TIBI
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