Do you
dream of owning your own fashion brand? Well,
get your sketches, storyboards and swatches ready and report to the runway!
Elle magazine, together with Africa Fashion International and your fashion
go-to MRP, are looking to kickstart the career of one
emerging African fashion designer.
If
you’re a final-year fashion student or a fashion design graduate with no more
than three years experience, have a unique design vision and are looking for
your big break into the fashion industry – take note! Simply click here for your chance to join the
likes of Anisa Mpungwe and David Tlale, previous #ElleRisingStar winners, by simply
submitting your portfolio before 31 July 2015!
And yes,
that is Tyson Beckford walking the runway for David Tlales’ first showing at
Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week. To think it all started with a dream,
passion and a click!
Speaking
of winners, the winner of #ElleRisingStar receives a mentorship
programme at MRP head office in Durban, South Africa, R30 000 (approx. NGN480
000) to launch their career and a featured story in Elle magazine. Plus, they
also get a chance to design an exclusive collection, that will be sold online
and in select MRP stores.
Are you
feeling nervous, excited and preparing your winners’ speech all at the same
time? Here’s a quick tip from Naija’s own Dimeja Alara, Editor of Genevieve magazine and a judge of #ElleRisingStar :
“Be true to yourself and make sure that
you try as much as you can always to bring that unique point of view to
whatever you do.”
Get
those sketches ready, 31 July 2015 is just around the corner!
Ladies, You Don't Have To Be A Kim or Kardashian, But With This You Are Awesome!
Check out all the styles below and go for the ones that best fit, and I bet you, you'll be amazed with the results you'll get.
Remember, take it down low, cos Fashion rocks!
Just feel it from your guts, and ladies? You're just there.
Looks like Mariah Carey is crazy about shoes,well, she shared a picture of her shoe closet and d**m it is probably bigger than some peoples apartment.
In the picture, rows of perfectly lined shoes can be seen stacked along white shelves, making it look more like a department store than a personal closet. She captioned the picture: “Always my favorite room in the house… #shoes #shoes #moreshoes 👠,” and we can see the reason why, we will probably sleep in that room if we own a closet like this.
This
multi-product cosmetics collection — inspired by Latin music icon,
Selena Quintanilla — debuts in the latter part of next year.
MAC Cosmetics
is no stranger to collaborating with beautiful, buzzy pop stars. It
teamed up with Lorde on a pearly, vampy lipstick in March 2014,
with Rihanna on four bold lip colors — including her best-selling RiRi
Woo — in
May 2013, and has released limited-edition products with the likes of
Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Hayley Willams. For its latest
celebrity-focused partnership, MAC tapped one of the music industry's
all-time greats: Latin singer Selena Quintanilla, whose final album was
released in July 1995, just three months after her tragic murder.
On
Thursday, MAC announced the multi-product collection,
dubbed #MACSelena, will debut towards the end of 2016. The brand's
Senior Vice President/Group Creative Director James Gager said in a
statement:
"Selena's
talent and beauty, inside and out have, have left a colourful,
meaningful impact in the world, that has continued to grow over the last
two decades. We have heard the passion and enthusiasm from her fans and
wholeheartedly agree that her legacy embodies MAC's philosophy."
Selena's sister, Suzette Quintanilla, was also quoted in the same release:
"I
am so excited that MAC Cosmetics will be releasing a collection in
honor of my sister Selena. Helping to create this collection brings me
back to all those late night conversations on our tour bus when she
spoke of having her own makeup line one day. If Selena were here she
would be beyond ecstatic to have this happening. History is being made."
Five months ago, a fan named Patty Rodriguez started a Change.org petition (aptly
titled, "To release a 'Selena Quintanilla for MAC' limited edition
collection"), which has now racked up more than 37,000 supporters on the
platform.
While that's all the intel we have on this collection (for now), we can all rest assured it will be a color, vivacious smash-hit: MAC owes it to Selena's passionate fan-base. Watch this space.
Beauty tutorials are big on YouTube — a search for “makeup tutorial” and “hair tutorial” yields more than 5 million videos. In this weekly series, we put a mix of popular and under-the-radar tutorials to the test and show you what’s best.
I have short hair not because it looks better on me than long hair, per se, but because short hair is easy. Most days, I air dry it and go. It's a little wavy and has plenty of volume.
Friends with long hair often tell me they don't want to go short because there isn't much you can do with it. But there is! French twists are far easier to do with short hair. So are updos like this.
The
latest addition to my repertoire is this braided updo from YouTube
vlogger team BeautyByAlyssaAndNic. You start by side-parting your hair
(though I'd probably go with a center part) and French braiding each
side, then pinning it under. So simple, you almost don't need to watch
the video, depending on your level of skill.
As an FYI, you will need hair that hits the top of your shoulders — which is longer than mine at present, but give me six weeks.
Bright makeup are simply in trend today, both in the runway as well as off the runway. However, many may run away from the trend as it seem too heavy.
These are two ways in which you can rock the bright makeup and still look dashingly simple.
1. Apply a hot pink hue on your lips. The key here is to keep the rest of your face subtle. This just gives you the perfect sweet girl look.
2. Coat the top of your lashes with a neon mascara, and then keep the rest of your face subtle.
The key thing about the bright makeup style is that, while you make a part of your face deep, the other part is left simple.
It gives you the electric look, but in a subtle kind of way.
Rukky Sanda is pretty much making all of us kind of fall in love with the Indian hair jewelry. The Nollywood actor, whenever she rocks the Indian hair jewelry always makes us fall deep in love with it.
Rukky is definitely one of the most fashionable Nollywood actor and she pretty much knows it. Also. She is one of the Nigerians that can push forward a trend that many other people will pick up, and it looks like she got this Indian jewelry on her agenda.
Well, it certainly looks like apart from the rings, bangles, necklaces and ear rings, we also have to add the Indian hair jewelry into our jewelry box.
New York Fashion Week: Men's made its debut this week, and obviously we were there, checking out the fashions and the man buns.
The backstage area, which was blessedly empty and peaceful, was an
ideal spot to chat up some male models while watching them get their
faces smeared with grease. (One difference between the men's and the
women's shows: Women are "dewy" and men are "sweaty.")
There's
a certain mystique about male models, beyond the usual "Zoolander"
trope. To get to know some of them better and to get a sense of what the
male modeling market wants, we asked them: "Have you ever been told to
make a change to your face, hair or body in order to be 'better'?"
While several said they've never been asked to change anything, most
that we spoke to had a story to tell. Here's what they said.
Adam Butcher, 28:
At the John Elliott show. Photo: Imaxtree
"My agent recommended that I get Invisalign
and straighten my teeth. It takes about eight months. I didn’t have a
big change to make, just fixing things up a little bit."
Adam Lee:
At the Rochambeau show. Photo: Imaxtree
"I'm a very feminine-looking person. I present
myself very androgynously in my day-to-day life, so it was always this
big conversation of whether they wanted to make me more feminine or more
masculine-looking. There's always that struggle of: they want me to
grow my hair out; they want me to cut it; they want me to wear certain
clothes to make me stand out, but if I stand out then I look totally
different. I think now when there are a lot more collections that are
exploring that line of gender, it allows us men to have a lot more
freedom."
Jake Lucas:
At the Paul Smith show. Photo: Imaxtree
"I had to bleach my eyebrows. You can kind of
still see it. With long hair, it changes a lot. A lot of the time they
ask me to leave it natural; I'll wake up, have a shower, and it's fine.
And then other times they'll curl it and go crazy for editorials and
stuff. My first-ever editorial, they cut my hair to be the same as the
girl's, so we both had hair up to here. [Gestures to just below his
ears.] That was two years ago. Since then, I've never been asked to cut
my hair. It's been long since I was a kid."
Andre Bona, 24:
At the Todd Snyder show. Photo: Imaxtree
"It happens sometimes, usually when the client is important. One time I had to shave my head. That was in 2013."
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Briar Montana, 20:
At the Tim Coppens show. Photo: J.P. Yim/Getty Images
"I had been scouted a few times [before I
signed with an agency], but I guess the industry wasn’t ready for me at
first [laughs]. I had to fill out a little bit more, and I’m still
really skinny, but I was a lot skinnier then. I was like, 'What? Too
skinny for fashion?' Eventually I just grew — I’m still growing. It’s weird."
Hamid Onifade, 21:
At the John Elliott show. Photo: Imaxtree
"[Modeling] has helped my self-confidence a
lot, because they don’t ask me to change anything. I’ve been lucky
because I’m quite tall for a model, but most of the clothes still fit."
Erin Mommsen, 19:
At the John Elliott show. Photo: Imaxtree
"No, it’s kind of the opposite. I’ve been
trying to cut my hair and my agent is like, 'No, no don’t cut it!' I
think he thinks that my hair is part of my 'look' so it’s kind of
important to keep that."
Gabriel True, 24:
At the Tim Coppens show. Photo: J.P. Yim/Getty Images
"It’s a pretty body-centric industry. With a
lot of boys like me who are naturally skinny and just don't have a lot
of definition, they want you to be more muscular and toned. I never
worked out because I’m naturally skinny so I’m like, 'Alright, I’ll eat
just grilled cheese and pizza every single day.' I’m running and doing
planks and core exercise. I’m not trying to bulk up at all."
Ryan Keating, 23:
"At first [I was told to] lose weight, but now
it’s to get bigger, more muscular. A lot of us have our own different
slots in the industry. For right now, I think I'm stronger in the
European market."
August Gonet, 21:
At the Alexandre Plokhov show. Photo: Thomas Concordia/Getty Images
"The weirdest situation I had was that I was told to lose weight in my lower back.
That’s what someone told me. They said, 'You’re great, but can you tone
up your lower back? You need to get leaner in the back section.' I did
more arch-ups."
Piero Mendez, 19:
At the Perry Ellis show. Photo: Thomas Concordia/Getty Images
"I opened Prada one year ago in Milan as an
exclusive. [My hair is] always curly, but at Prada last season they
straightened my hair. When I started [modeling] last year there were
almost no curly boys."
Roberto Sipos, 19:
At the Perry Ellis show. Photo: Thomas Concordia/Getty Images
"When I started modeling, I was 15 and I was
still looking like a baby — it was difficult for me to book the big
jobs. You kind of have to look mature. As I get older, it just gets
better and better. You never know [if they’ll tell you to bulk up]. If
you watch the shows in Paris, they’re all skinny. In Milan they still
use bulked-up guys. In London it’s [both] skinny and muscle guys. In New
York, it’s more looking like a man."
Mitchell Slaggert, 20:
"I
had to lose some muscle mass. I was a little bit too big. I had to run a
lot and lose five pounds because I was too big in the shoulders for the
clothes. Also, I had a buzzed head and they wanted me to grow it out a
little bit so that they could style it more. "
There's
a lot of talk about "squad goals" and "girl gangs" in fashion these
days — especially among models — but it truly does warm our hearts when
the industry's biggest names support each other's off-the-runway
projects. Kendall Jenner, whose gal pal Cara Delevingne
is starring in the highly anticipated "Paper Towns" (which hits
theaters this Friday), attended a screening of the film in Los Angeles
on Saturday, wearing a two-piece evening look from Zimmermann's fall
2015 collection that really caught our attention.
Despite
its sexy keyhole opening at the chest, the puff-sleeved, high-necked
top could have had an aging effect; but thanks to the double-slit skirt —
which allowed Jenner to show plenty of leg — and unfussy ponytail, the
full look had a witchy, '70s feel to it. To punch up the monochromatic
oxblood ensemble, the model added some metallic gold shoes by Tom Ford,
which injected just the right amount of red carpet glamour. By (mostly)
covering up on top and showing off her best assets (those legs), this is great a lesson in playing to your strengths when it comes to getting dressed.
When you're a model, two slits are better than one.
On any budget, you can improve the look of your Tailoring...
If a suit isn't of the greatest of quality, make sure it doesn't bring any attention to itself in any way. So, buy single-breasted, notch lapels, 2 or 3-button, plain Grey or Navy suits. Bright colours or patterns might like a good option for a cheaper product, but they will only highlight poor materials. Take note of this little article and it will help you look good even with little expense.
Wearing bum shot makes a lady looks sexy and hot. But rocking it the right way feels better. The pic can tell you more, but in case you can't notice anything, lemme just give you a clue; the heels, the hair, the glasses, the bag, the lapping of the shot and the mini top, that's what we are talking about. Always visit back for more......
This little Compilation may differ based on your asset, Colour views, designers and the like. Let's go;
1. Firemans Sporting Club Cotton Blazer
2. Saber Slim Trim Navy Trousers
3. Balenciaga Long Sleeve Cotton Shirt
4. Charvet Silk Tie
5. George Cheverly Ruben Burnished Brogues.
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65-year-old former Olympian, now transgender woman, Caitlyn Jenner has been one of Vogue's best dressed women of the week, in recognition of the supremely stylish and sexy wrap around white number she wore when she picked up her Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards last week. It is just the latest in a whole host of honours to be showered on the one time world's greatest athlete. More photos after the cut...
