Swahili Fashion Week Bigger Better

Swahili Fashion Week, East and Central Africa largest fashion event, now in its Fourth year, will be held at The National Museum  on the 10th, 11th and 12th November 2011 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

“This year we have grown tremendously as we have 20 established Tanzanian designers, 10 up and coming designers and the rest from outside Tanzania, all in all 50 designer showcases aimed at celebrating 50 years of our Independence,Opening Swahili Fashion Week to a new audience, and keeping to the tradition of being first, this year we shall unveil the first ever Fashion Awards in East and Central Africa celebrating achievements made by the fashion industry. Another First will be a T-shirt design competition aimed at engaging the young and their creativity as part of expanding our fashion family” stated the founder of the Fashion week Mustafa Hassanali.

 Swahili Fashion Week 2011 will collectively bring together 50 fashion and accessories designers from Swahili speaking countries and beyond to showcase their creativity and forecast future fashion trends for the region.In addition to the Fashion Show presentations, Swahili Fashion Week Shopping Festival which was incorporated in year 2010 will once again be the main feature and up to date more than 30 exhibitors have already confirmed participation thus making it the largest shopping festival in the country.
Swahili Fashion Week 2011 will be broadcasted live via the World Wide Web via the www.swahilifashionweek.com website, giving the global fashion media an insight to the world of Fashion in Eastern Africa. The live webcast will also give opportunity to Tanzanians living in the Diasporas to be part of the celebration of 50 years of Tanzanian independence celebration. 

Alex Folzi

Aelx Folzi is Nigerian line Founded by Fela and Fola Fagbure, the twins began their enterprise with a small collection of tailor fit trousers for men and women that grew into a fashion model that’s redefining European and American style
I love their Vintage elegant style, for the individualistic fashion people.

but most of all
Alex Folzi leather briefcases!

Maridadi Launch Party

Maridadi Fashion Show Goes to Arusha,Launch Party at the Hatari Bar,the Arusha 
Hotel.

The Models!

Arusha's very own DJKat

Miranda Kerr's Lampshade Skirt on Harpers Bazaar

I loved this cover basically coz of the  Lampshade skirt Miranda is wearing! 

Its Mary Katrantzou Fall 2011 Silk Satin Peplum Skirt from the Fall/Winter 2011 Collection.... Fabulous prints, mosaics and florals...

The Victorian lampshades with dangling details...

Image credits: TsNewYork

The Mandela's Got a Reality TV Gig..

O_o
Okay... They promised to be nothing like the Kardashians.. (wipes sweat)

Three of former president Nelson Mandela's grandchildren are to star in a new reality show, members of the family announced on Thursday. 
"The show will be about our lives as young, black women ... We're not wearing 'I'm a Mandela' T-shirts," Swati Dlamini, granddaughter of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Her cousin Dorothy Adjoa Amuah, granddaughter of the late Evelyn Mandela, said: "We are exposing Africa for what it is ... with a new middle class of intellectuals ... contributing to the economy."
Dlamini, Amuah and Swati's older sister Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway said they had grown up in the United States, but returned to South Africa for business and family reasons.
The show would take an unscripted look at the role of the new generation of women as mothers and career women.
"We're definitely not the African Kardashians," Amuah said.

 "They clearly have a great love for each other. This may be part storytelling, part reality, except the story we are telling is real ... it's not going to detract from the dignity of Nelson Mandela." said American producer Rick Leed who was in Johannesburg today talking to reporters about the show. He’s the former president of Wind Dancer Production Group (Home Improvement) who created and exec-produced Dr. 90210. “It’s not going to detract from the dignity of Nelson Mandela,” Leed said
Dlamini-Manaway (34) is the mother figure of the show with a 10-year-old son, a two-year-old daughter and a third child due in January.
She is involved in a family business, Mandela Dlamini Associates, and plans to launch a clothing line.
Dlamini (32) is a single mother getting back into the career world with plans to set up a foundation focused on the housing, education and medical sectors.
Amuah (27) is a socialite with a law degree and an MBA from Monaco. She is in the luxury brands market.
Dorothy Adjoa Amuah, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, and her younger sister Swati Dlamini, all grew up in the United States, but then returned to South Africa for business and family reasons.

    [Source] 

Swahili Fashion Week in Arusha...

Swahili Fashion week gets bigger and better, debuts in Arusha!

As we prepare towards the 2011 edition from 10-12 November at the National Museum in Dar es Salaam, Swahili Fashion week will make its DEBUT showcase in Arusha, the Head quarters of the EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY,  on 8 October at The Mount Meru Hotel.  This is aimed at taking the work of designers regionally and sensitize  Fashion as Business to the EAST AFRICAN community.

Beer Cocktails Anyone?

Kilimanjaro Beer Fest This week in Dar Es Salaam...

BLIND TIGER TO SERVE (BEER) COCKTAILS AT THE KILIMANJARO BEER FEST THIS WEEKEND!!


Ever tried a beer cocktail??? You'd be suprised!! Come and try the world's most humble beverage in a truely innovative fashion at the very first Oktoberfest to hit Tanzania this weekend!


However, fear not - Blind Tiger will also be serving fruity frozen cocktails, cooling classics and other heavenly delights to offset the beer blitz that will be the Kilimanjaro Beer Fest, and provide a more refined drinking experience for those less inclined towards the amber brew! The Blind Tiger menu would of course be incomplete without tasty mocktails, exciting shooters, and an array of Bacardi Breezer flavours!


Come and find the Blind Tiger tent, from 10am this Saturday the 1st of October to late on Sunday 2nd October at Leaders' Club, Kinondoni.

City Activities.

You in Dar? Watchu doing this friday?

Africa's #1 DJ, is coming to Dar on 30th Sept 2011

@ Hyatt Regency (formerly known as Kempinski hotel)...see more here

Khadija Mwanamboka on VOA

VOA's Ndimyake Mwakalyelye talks to Fashion Designer Khadija Mwanamboka, from the Tanzania Mitindo House, about the meaning of raising community awareness through fashion.

The Incorrect Image...

Slow clap to BlogKujenga Daraja for exposing our Tanzanian Media and this massive wrong  image of MV Spice Islander that spread out like wild fire all over twitter, Facebook,blogs....Mine Included
(dont look at me like thaaat, It was on BBC!)  This image wasn't actually of MVSpice Islander sinking...didnt get the memo

Daily News even stated it was taken by their photographer..Ooomph!!!

Are our media giants not reliable?

SeeBlog Daraja

Nyasha Graces the Pages of Vogue Japan

Nyasha in Vogue Japan Movement and Shape Editorial,Loving the airy effect, wind in the air...wind in the clothes...

RIP Prof. Wangari Maathai

Africa has lost a great seed, Profesoor Wangari lost her battle to cancer Sunday 25th,9,2011

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead

                                           Prof. Wangari Maathai delivers the 3rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died late on Sunday after battling cancer. She was 71.Mrs. Maathai, one of the most famous and widely respected women on the continent, wore many hats — environmentalist, feminist, politician, anti-corruption campaigner, human rights advocate, protester and head of the Green Belt Movement she founded. She was as comfortable in the gritty streets of Nairobi’s slums or the muddy hillsides of central Kenya as she was hobnobbing with heads of state. In 2004, she won the Nobel Peace Prize, with the Nobel committee citing “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” It was a moment of immense pride in Kenya and across Africa.[Source] 

iLike:Streetstyle edition

Get Braided Up this season!

  Bet you never seen braids that long huh..

Source: The Z-Generation, AfricanCreature

The Rescue...

22 minute Vid of the rescue team which on call for MvSPice Islander in Zanzibar
I cried While watching this..no doubt this was a man made accident..
The little things we take fore granted will cost us a thousand lives ...

Naomi's Campbell's birthday gift...

Naomi Campbell at the Flagship Store opening of Pierelli Corso Venezia took place yesterday in Milan, Italy

Guess What 41 year old (she still gooot it) Naomi Campbell got from her Russian Billionaire boyfriend...

No, its not an eye...its an eye designed big ol house on a private island in turkey...

If the world comes to an end, model Naomi Campbell and her nearest and dearest will have no trouble surviving in this 25 roomed eco-home. Designed by and a birthday gift from one of our favorite new architects Luis de Garrido, the glass domed house is completely energy and water self-sufficient and features an amazing indoor landscaped terrace. Everything about this house is a dream: its comfortable microclimate, its constant flow of air, light and heat when necessary, its superior landscaping, and of course the fact that it was built on the Isla Playa de Cleopatra in Turkey (notice the Egyptian theme.)

Aint it beautiful?

25 bedrooms, five lounges, and an indoor landscaped terrace.The property is an exact replica of The Eye of Horus, an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power and good health.

The things I would do in a 25 bed roomed house..Ayayaya....no wonder shit like this don't happen to me..More images below

Source: Inhabitat Via iIuluonline

Sabrina Makhein For Zeeuws Africa

Sudanese Model For Project Zeeland Africa by Photographer Ingrid Borger..
A Historical Fantasy...

In the cornfield...

Images By Ingrid Borger Zeeuws Africa