12 Years a Slave featured a stellar cast and Oscar buzz has already begun, and now that Award Season is fast approaching, we have our eyes on one particular cast member.
Tokyo Fashion Week is currently underway and as always the offerings are futuristically coherent but still functionally scribed.
Andrew Dosunmu’s newest offering, Mother of George, is a testament to his background as a former creative director and fashion photographer for design house Yves Saint Laurent. The visual tones and kinetic sound bites generate enough endurance to keep the viewer in tuned and somewhat devoted to this culturally driven vehicle.
Naomi Campbell is the one constant in an industry that thrives strictly on ideal shallowness and extreme youth. The 43-year-old supermodel has experienced the highs and lows that come with her very demanding profession and even though she hasn’t always been graceful under fire, Campbell has been blessed with an enviably thriving career and a body and face that only the gods could have ordained.
What we ever do without Twitter? We would be bored out of our minds and fantasizing about how cool it would be to be able to have access to a tool that enables us to have front row seats to celebrity rumbles.
If you venture anywhere near Alexandre Vauthier’s designs, then you definitely belong IN THE CITY.
The delightfully chaotic Vivienne Westwood dug dipper into her chest of rambunctious goodies to curate a collection that symbolically celebrated her intense love affair with the creatures of the wild and the medieval wizards that have always dominated her fantastical landscape.
Alber Elbaz did not suffer from blurry vision when he concocted his dazzling pieces, which were elaborately showcased by the streams of models, giving their best look on behalf of Lanvin.
An exerpt from Kofi Awoonor’s poem – This Earth, My Brother
Within the airwaves we carry
Our hutted entrails; and we pray
Shrieks abandoned by lonely road-sides
as the gunmen’s boots tramp.
I lift up the chalice of hyssop and tears
to touch the lips of the thirsty
sky-wailing in a million spires
of hate and death; we pray
bearing the single hope to shine
burnishing in the destiny of my race
that glinting sword of salvation
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The ongoing chaos crippling Nairobi and captivating the world is a tragic affair that has presented a roster of victims, each with a litany of accomplishments and badges of selfless service that spans the global realm.
The collection unleashed by Giorgio Armani makes us wish we could fast forward to Spring 2014 this very instant!