What the Kids Are Wearing These Days

Thanks for your time Camp Mulla & company, backstage shooting tv show THE SPACE.

StreetStyle: A Boy and His Necklace

Kwame Bonsu (in his own photo)

Mavado at his store Dash Dash

...with Ricardo

Guy in shuka with matching (matching!) necklace

Kule Ekirapa

 Works at "Vintage", works a vintage look

Lake Turkana: People & Baubles (& now oil)

The Lake Turkana Festival 2012 is a-comin, and I'm seriously considering how to get ourselves up North for some bush-bashing, tribal exploration, and cultural confusion. I've been resistant up until now (in light of the treacherous car journey and general lack of food & water up there). It's timely since the talk of the town today is of how the Kenyan government has discovered oil in Turkana County, and how a once-ignored part of the country is about to be inundated with attention. It all smells of doom and gloom to come, so I should probably go (to discover some native jewelery and things) before the place becomes obliterated by civilization.

These Eric Lafforgue (2009) images are probably the best illustration of the texture and otherworldly beauty of the people of Lake Turkana and their beaded, shell, leather, & metal adorments. Must go.

It's hard to stop looking.

Black Spring: VOGUE ITALIA!

I am literally holding my breath until Thursday for this...
What for? More soon (it's gonna be better than good, promise!).

Janet (News Anchor) + Wambui (Designer) = "The Janet Collection"

Designer, Wambui Mukenyi

View "The Janet Collection" at Fashion Amira Bits & read the story at KenyaBuzz. Proceeds from sales go to the Miss Koch Scholarship Program, free primary school education for vulnerable kids. Big congratulations to my friends Janet & Wambui for a partnership borne out of a chance encounter... at my mama's house of all places!

Designer Moment: SAITH

PHOTOGRAPHS Barbara Minishi
DESIGNER  SAITH
STYLING Dressupnation
MAKEUP Kobi for SuzieBeauty
HAIR Randolph Grey
SHOOT ASSISTANT Frankie Naikuni
MODEL Zaron Bogale