Sudanese model Akuol de Mabior is a vision of beauty on the latest cover of Annabelle, a Swiss magazine, for their spread on African-inspired fashions from Prada and Burberry. See more pics at Beauty is Diverse YOU WILL LOVE: Alek Wek and Ajak Deng in Spring 2012 Kenzo Ad
Amina Lula is a Toronto based PR and social media manager for online shopping site eLUXE. This Somali-Yemeni beauty started off her career in the fashion business as an intern-cum-employee at Rachel Roy, who Amina describes as “an incredible mentor.” She is also the second half of the Sokoni Worldwide duo (we featured her Sokoni partner-in-crime Saada Ahmed a few weeks ago) On her style, Amina says: “It’s never consistent [...]
Kate Demarais is a Cape Town-based copywriter and fashion-lover. She describes her style as such: “If I had to sum up my style I would probably say it’s preppy with personality. I like to dress according to how I feel when I wake up in the morning – so no planning outfits the day before! Looking back at my style diary, I guess a recurring theme would be the statement [...]
Rosemary Kokuhilwa in a New York based fashion stylist repping Tanzania. Through her blog, Fashion Junkii, she covers whats hot in fashion with photographic splashes here and there of her own elegant style. While not styling shoots, Rosemary is the style director of Prajje 1983 and co-founder/chairman of Global Fashion New York Inc, an organization that uses fashion as a platform to advocate for human rights. She does it all [...]
Photographer Thina Zibi captures more Cape Town youth culture for AfriPOP! This month she visited the Cold Turkey, held every second Sunday at a popular braai (barbecue) venue in Woodstock, Cape Town. Says Thina: “The parties are popular for its dubstep and bass beats. It always manage to host a fun and vibrant crowd. I managed to grab some snaps of the stylish Cold Turkey faces and looks.” Take [...]
So as successful as “Today I wore” turned out with Joy Adaeze and Terence Sambo, we had to chop and screw it up a lil to get the final result we wanted. So we’ve changed the feature into “What I wore this week” where every Friday, we’ll bring all that stylish goodness in one punchy, self-contained and concise round-up of looks and styles from every day of the week gone [...]
(l-r: Jason Akoi, Tobi Babajide) Born out of the campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey, Herds of the Fathers is an accessories line that blends both the old school nature of its approach to good quality leather design with the youth and vitality of its designers. Now two years old, the line created by Nigerian-born Tobi Babajide and Liberian-American Jason Akoi has evolved further with their second collection arriving in coming [...]
Some of the African diaspora’s greatest young minds recently gathered at the 9th annual Columbia University African Economic Forum in New York City to discuss opportunities and strategies for a prosperous Africa. This year’s theme “Africa Reclaiming Africa: Changing The Rules of Engagement” focused on how Africans are taking back their own narratives, whether in business or fashions. Here’s a photographic look back at the event attended by Helene Faussart [...]
“AfriPOP! Today I wore”: For five days, our fashion junkie of the week will showcase what they wore going about in their daily lives; from a work day to a night out on the town! We are highlighting the fashion-forward, eclectic styles of those that look beyond brand names to focus on a personal style and aesthetic. If you know even an inkling about the modern African fashion scene today, [...]
For five days, our fashion junkie of the week will showcase what they wore going about in their daily lives; from a work day to a night out on the town! We are highlighting the fashion-forward, eclectic styles of those that look beyond brand names to focus on a personal style and aesthetic. Documenting her love of fashion via her blog “Joy Loves Fashion“, Adaeze is a New York based [...]
