Asos Africa Finally released their S/S 2012 collection made from the traditional  Kitenge prints. According to the Asos press release the fabrics were  re-scaled re-colored and given a fluorescent highlights to  give a modern twist to the traditional.  What do you think ?

The collection stays true to Editalo’s style making use of high waistlines and full skirts incorporating traditional fabrics with modern-day silhouettes. The first 2 dresses above are definitely my favorite. 

I first saw the collection of Tanzanian designer Evelyn Rugemalira during the Swahili fashion week. I was delighted to receive her latest collection a few days by a fellow blogger. According to the Swahili Fashion Week website Evelyn was an operations manager for a family-owned business is Dar Es Salaam when she opened a clothing fashion label called Eve Collections after an inspiring trip to Nigeria.

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Eve Collections features pieces of luxurious fabrics of Kitenge, fused with a wide range of high quality of linen, cotton, chiffon, raw silks together with sequined beads. Eve Collections caters for the needs of creative, risk-taking women who share the same desire for sensuous, feminine fabrics in fresh, luscious colors. Eve Collections does not just design but also pays attention to detail and works with the client for ultimate customer satisfaction. 

Yep Yep I love  how my friend in my head ( like Wendy Williams would say ) Incorporate African  fabrics in her outfits from time to time. Spotted these pics on Naturalbelle today photographed by Claiborne Swanson Frank  for book American Beauty which  a compilation of some of the most stylish fashionistas. I wonder who else made the cut .

 

Kinée Diouf really rocked in this editorial

Nairoby Matos – Arise Magazine Issue 15

 Yesterday  while checking my twitter timeline I came upon a few Nigerians bloggers tweets  stating that the local nigerian models were furious because allegedly   they were not getting paid the same as some of the other international models on the runway. I am not in Lagos so I could not  confirm exactly what happened but here is my 2 cents if this is what happened

• Why we have yet to hear from the Arise Magazine team? My guess is they were not expecting something like this to happen. But nonetheless by now their Pr should have released a statement to let us know what's happening.

• Why the F....k that model had to open her mouth  to tell someone else what how much she is making off the show ? Does she know about privacy. I guess she must be feeling really bad right now and might never get invited back to the show .

• Why the F....k local models think they  should be making the same as others? I mean its obvious that models don't make the same for  the same gig. Naomi Campbell does not make same as other models even though they do the same job.  No one is irreplaceable so if you don't want to do the job someone else will do it.  They should be paid fairly but it up to every model to negotiate their own contract.

 Gosh !!!!! I love this woman's hair and style of course. I always wonder how long it takes her to  comb her hair.

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