Showing posts with label ANTM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANTM. Show all posts

Friday, February 7, 2014

THE WEEK IN RETROSPECT 07/02/14

Just spent a week of going HAM at the gym with my awesome new trainer and I promise you - I'm soon going to be the girl you keep in your fitspo folder to body shame yourself. What I'm yet to figure out though is a balance between my daily 1 and half hour gym sessions after work and my writing, so chances are the blog is going to suffer.
Anyhoo, some news on Instagram. Solange is killing it as artistic director of Puma! Her instagram feed is pure heaven. That said, isn't it a bit like how London styled that girl on ANTM like a mini-her? Because this aesthetic is so strongly Solange its not even a case of drawing inspiration from her style ... its a copy and paste scenario. Luckily for Puma and us, Solange's style rocks!

They all look like mini-Solanges, don't they?


Gloria Wavamuno posted this behind the scenes shoot for Kampala Fashion Week. No prizes for guessing who the Face of Kampala Fashion Week is!



Yes, that's Aamito on the floor making fierce love to the camera! Can't wait for the big reveal and all the accompanying fashion! It's the inaugural Kampala Fashion Week, right?

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

COMING SOON ...

Purple Rain Fashion Uganda - the coolest online shop ever this side of the Sahara. Had a professional photoshoot and all for the web site and I will share the pics on here too as soon as the photogs finish touching them up.
In the meantime, you'll have to make to with the ones I snapped with my little 16mp cammy.


In the interest of full disclosure, y'all need to know that I had just run 10k in a little over 80mins so wasn't at my smiziest best. My muscles were planning a mutiny and all the rest of me wanted to do was sleep for 3 days straight! But at least I did my part in helping MTN & Co. get clean water to Karamoja :)

All Accessories available soon at Purple Rain

 Still on the topic of the marathon, I didn't see much point in painting my tootsies as they wouldn't be on display. So when the photogs decided they had an opening just an hour after I came close to beating Kiprotich and was in definitive #BeastMode, a pedicure was out of the question.

The Jay Manuels and Patrick DeMarchelier to my Tyra Banks ;)

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Featured Designer: Rihanna for River Island






Riri did not lie when she said this line was inspired by her wardrobe; its all stuff she’d actually wear or is wearing or has won. Basically all the models looked like mini Rihanna’s. It reminded me of ANTM 12 (Tyra should start paying me for advertising because I refer to ANTM in every other post! Oh why doesn't the co-ed cycle start already!?!) when they had the styling challenge and London dressed her partner up as her. That was hilar.





By the way those aint jackets wrapped round the outfit, the skirt is actually designed that way. Just as That's not a shirt and dress but just a dress. Singular. One item. Mind blown. Not. Same goes for the jeans. Yap, homegirl is reinventing the wheel!


I just know these jeans are going to get mixed reactions! There's obviously a market for them. Street chic or something. They wouldn't have sold out (!) otherwise but that dress that looks like pyjamas? Only Rihanna...
Riri spotted 2 looks for the night, a long black sheath with thigh high slit paired with burgundy minimalist sandals from her collection for the show, then changed into double waisted denims and crop top for the after party. I feel like her stylist should share credit for this line because these aint so big a departure from what he's been putting on her since she started working like Mariah Carey's trainer and changed her physique.


I love this look!

I dunno f she designed the shoes too but if she did she is the multitasker of all multitaskers!
She's quite pricey though (most items retail for about $100) considering it's her teenage fans she's targeting. I'm not a fan of the pants but that dress with the cut-out back? Sign me up please!



Speaking of multitasking, on the other side of the coin we have Marc Jacobs making his big screen debut in Disconnect. As Harvey, a sleazy surrogate parent to a bunch of kids he gets off the streets and in exchange for shelter and food they do web porn and prostitution(!!!)


Marc in a scene from the movie (left) and the film's poster.

Disconnect is one of those ensemble cast movies featuring interconnected story lines and the gist of it is how the internet is interfering with how we connect IRL. Is he any good in it? Sounds like. But to be sure let's wait for the film's release in April. Rounding up the ensemble cast are Paula Patton, Alexander Skarsgard and Jason Bateman. I hope Rex Reed (that guy Seth MacFarlane referred to after Adele's Oscar's performance) goes easy on this one cuz you just know Marc won't take having his performance torn to shreds by tabloid movie critic lying down!

Where the 49 year old designer gets the time to star in movies in between designing for Louis Vuitton and his label Marc for Marc Jacobs AND wearing dresses at Met galas I would really like to know. Cuz I struggle with merely juggling sleep, and work, and blogging.

Those shoes remind me of this Disney's illustrated "The Elves and the Shoemaker" book I had when I was 7. After reading the book I wanted to own shoes just like them. Seems my desires don't change much with age because I still want these shoes! Also pants are seriously over rated. 


Monday, February 18, 2013

The Obligatory Grammys 2013 Fashion Post


Perfection, thy name is Solange.

If you think I'm going to do a best dressed post about an event Solange attended and she doesn’t come out tops you obviously don’t know her sartorial epicness, or you probably doubt the depths of my girlcrush on her! It is fathomless...Without fathom, to quote Megamind. Why do you think I put off the post until I could get a better pic of the dress than this? (And had actually watched the show for myself instead of vicarious through twitter)

Whatever was going on with her face in this pic, you can't deny she nail the natural make up look!


Homegirl delivered in a sparkly green Ralph & Russo couture gown. Other stars' stylists shoulda been taking notes. Hey Katy Perry, this is how you do green. Though Florence Welch wasn’t too bad either.



Jlo, girlfriend, this is how they leg bomb! Not that legless dress which I thought was half bodysuit and therefore spent a shameful amount of seconds thinking how your bathroom breaks would go! (Settled on Amanda in Ugly Betty method while stuck in the latex tube, right?) 

Doesn’t hurt that Solange paired that gorgeous gown with a wildass curly Fro (whoever was sitting behind her must have hated her guts!!! Hehe!) and red hot studded Loubs. If all my years as a green loving faux redhead have taught me anything, its that you can't go wrong with that combo.



*Side bar* I saw a pic of model Jourdan Dunn out partying with Rihanna this weekend in a similar pair and she looked like she had borrowed hers? She just wasn't standing/walking right in any of the pics! 

Right? Something is a little off. She looks like they pinch.

Solange had a busy last week  and yet nailed it every time! (Although that pant less white ensemble is responsible for a long debate I had with myself...I'll spare you the details, just know the pros list was longer)

She glows, doesn’t she? Marry me Solange and let's give Jules some adorbs siblings


Honorable mention. 



Kudos to Adele for not wearing black for once. I'm sure we were all thinking whats up with that!?! Sting representing for the silver foxes. This is for my friend who can’t get enough of them, you know who you are! JA
*Slow clap for Kelly* Now this is how you say "up yours" to nonsensical memos. I was watching the red carpet with a guy friend and he had to remark how they must have sawn the dress on her body because there was no room for error, any slight movement offcenter and CBS cops (or whoever they had in place to reinforce the rules)would swoop in with scarves and jackets and cover her up!

Worst dressed? There's always one, isn't there? Even if she adhered to the memo, Lisa D’Amato missed the boat by a mile!!! What is she even wearing? A milkmaid crossed with a candy cane? Does she work in Dr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium? I like her new nose though.

I like her new nose though.
Notably missing? Lady Gaga. What is the Grammy's with no egg hatchings or meat dresses??? You guys, how old is mother monster if she's already getting hip replacements? I worry for our generation!
And I'm definitely upping the ante on my yoga!
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