Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Fashion meets Art

Okay I just have to blog about these guys, my blog was going to be strictly about women’s fashion but you just have to admit, the guys are also just killing it hey. Justice, Innocent and Vuyo wow these guys 0vintage swag just does it for me, they creative and expressive. Their fashion is based on their travelling experiences and also their surroundings.
It started with a Skype chat from Kenya when Innocent travelled there for an ad campaign for work. He sent us a picture of a guy on a motorbike at a carwash, everywhere there were happy people smiling. We saw such cool in it. It wasn’t what we expected from Kenya. Because every time you saw pictures of Kenya it was poverty or tall people. So we decided to show the world how our Africa is: Beautiful.

It’s not vintage. It’s what we grew up seeing as kids. The people around us where very fashionable and that played a big part in how we look at fashion and the choices we make when we put together our outfits. Their styles then and our styles now are not the same. We also have our own distinct personal styles, which reflect our individual personalities.  For e.g. Innocent and Justice’s style is more preppy and Vuyo’s is edgy. (Layla Leima 2013)
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Thick ladies in fashion






Thick women are making it big in the fashion industry, I mean heyyy…. Am a thick beautiful girl myself so I absolutely enjoy it when the media embraces our beauty.
I mean take for example Gabi Gregg, Two years ago the American fashion blogger Gabi Gregg, 27, posted a picture of herself on her style diary, gabifresh.com, wearing a bikini. The post was written about everywhere, from Teen Vogue to the New York Post. It culminated in an appearance on the American television show Today, in which Gregg was asked to explain her decision to put the picture online. Why? Because she is a size 20, and, along with an increasing number of her fashion-hungry plus-size peers, she has had enough of hiding.

Her "fatkini" post (as she calls it) led to a contract designing bikinis for the American company Swimsuits for All, and a column for American InStyle. Now she has set up her own plus-size clothing line. Gregg is often cited as an inspiration by her peers, who aim to prove that, when it comes to style, size doesn't matter.
"I knew it would be empowering for women to see a plus-size girl proudly wearing a two-piece," Gregg says from her home in Los Angeles. While some commenters accused her of being unhealthy - or not fat enough - most responses were positive. "People told me that I'd made them feel it was OK to go to the beach again. Who knew something so simple could be so life-changing?” . (Racheal Dove 2014)
She said it all, Love the skin and body you in then the rest will follow!!!!

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