WARNING: This Video will make your day!!!! Lighthearted moments, Sunglasses, long-legged African beauties plus more encapsulated in the video below. Clips from Behind-The-Scenes shoot of the Kenzo S/S 2012 Ad. Ajak Deng, Ataui Deng, Alek Wek & Nairoby Mato all made cameo appearances in the video.
Nigerian fashion label Grey recently premiered a video retrospective on their line featuring a couple of their ambassadors who have been with them from the start of their journey.
This video was launched at an event GREY hosted at Reeds Restaurant, Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria. on the 13th of April.
It was shot & edited by Haute TV’s director Bolaji Kekere-Ekun for 37thstate Ltd with concept by Charles Obienu for 3hvndred and features Marcy Dolapo Oni, Kome Ajegbo, Ademide Adefarasin, soul musician Bez & Ozzy Etomi to name a few. . . and brief interview with the designer; Joke Ladoja, Obi Obi & Tola Ayanwale.
Like the First HauTe TV Street Style debut at Arise Magazine Fashion Day 3 was not exciting enough! Here’s a double dose that features the best eclectic styles at Arise Magazine Fashion Week from Day 4 – Day 6 featuring your favorite Fashionistas & Designers & The best cameo of all by Nduka Obaigbena of CEO/Publisher of Thisday Publication/Arise Magazine.
This episode features; Girl Interrupted – Ore Runs, Enyinne Owunwanne of Heritage1960, Naeto C, Hauwa Sanyaolu, Charles Obienu, Ojy Okpe, Obiobi or Grey, Ituen Basi, Orire Omatsola of ReBahia, Chin Okeke, Ikon, Tana Adelana, Sara Kaba Jones, Prajje, Maureen Okogwu of Sunny Rose, Zainab Ashadu of Zashadu, Ebi Atawodi, Beverly Naya, Yagazie Emezi, Oseyi Etomi, Simi Osomo, Adama Ndiaye of Adama Paris, Taibo Bacar, Halima Maibe, Yvonne Vixen Ekwere and Temitope Phil-Ebosie, ENJOY:
Koke:
Funlayo Deri:
Watch an Interview with Funlayo Deri Backstage with HauTe TV:
Images: Kola Oshalusi
Show Review to Follow Shortly
HFA is choosing to feature select designers from the Arise Magazine Fashion Week Show this year until the full basis/criteria on which the designers are given to show with the platform is clear.
Christie Brown
Christie Christie Christie, you had me at your last show and you’ve still got me. A great winter colour palette with browns, teal, navy and royal purple working deliciously together. Look closely for the mass of velvet and notice the Satin, two fabrics working very well together this season. Sheers are still at the top of the trend list and Brown proves this so. Really loving the splashes of wax print to decorate the collection adding further consistancy. Brown not only jumps on the trend of the decorated side panel for the trouser leg witnessed by Calvin Klein and Balenciaga at this years F/W shows, but maintains her high necked attire throughout. And you know I love my high necks.
Watch Christie Brown Backstage at Arise Magazine Fashion Week 2012 below, just before her runway debut:
Phunk Afrique
Lots of lustre and length. Phunk Afrique blends a western idea of “tribal print” (zebra prints) and traditional African fabrics together which I cant say that I have seen before. Though I’m usually not a fan of animal print I don’t mind her use of yellow and black for this collection and admire her sleek silhouettes. This concept of east verse West has potential, however the combination of colour and fabric didn’t have the kick it was intended to have. The collection was inconsistent at times, although one can notice the high neck trends, lustrous fabrics and oversized sleeves also witnessed in other designer assemblages so far.
Buki Akib
Buki! We like! Not for every male out there of course, but definitely for the brave hearted who don’t mind showing a little nipple in the Winter months. Yes there was netting and loose latex like fabrics in violet and silver (not the best colour choice for men, but hey – who doesn’t like a little risque). I felt I was taken back to the 1990′s grunge theme and then brought back to the future with pieces such as the matching poncho and Harem pants and then the cropped black leather trousers paired against the African print oversized vest. The colour palette was mainly restricted to black, white, and brown – either in solo form or a combination of all three. Very different… very interesting.
Images: Kola Oshalusi
HFA is choosing to feature select designers from the Arise Magazine Fashion Week Show this year until the full basis/criteria on which the designers are given to show with the platform is clear.
It’s bubbling with all the Fashion Buzz in Nigeria’s Fashion City Capital, LAGOS! Except you’ve been under a rock then you are not aware of the sophomore debut of your favorite African Lifestyle Magazine’s Fashion Week!
That’s right despite, the hiccups and delays, your favourite Fashionistas/Fashionistos have come in their stylist garbs to checkout what the latest African Designers have in store for us this season at Arise Magazine Fashion Week 2012.
Checkout Prajje of Prajje 1983, Isoken & Wonu of L’Espace & LPM, Charles of Hephzibah Couture, Amine of Amine Bendriouch Couture & BS (Bullshit), William Okpo Sistrens, Arise Magazine Editor, Helen Jennings, STV Presenter, Yvonne “Vixen” Ekwere, Mataano Sisters, Fashion Darling Eku Edewor, Chaka repping Ozwald Boateng, Laquan Smith, Genevieve Magazine Editor, Vanessa Banigo in a Sika Design & Ituen Basi combo, Kene Rapu, Fade Ogunro of The Beat FM who is “Dressed down” in “Python Louboutin Ankle boots”:
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The excitement here at HauTe Central is unreal as we anticipate A/W 2012 Showcase extraordinaire in London!! New York has given us its best, we now expect our ever so talented African designers in London to blow us out of the park as London Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow. Just incase you missed it, see the list of African designers that will be showcasing their work during London Fashion Week F/W 2012 HERE.
While we wait to see the various assemblages unveil, a little something from us: Behind the Scenes filming from Zed Eye’s F/W 2011 showcase!
As shot by HauTe TV’s Bolaji Kekere-Ekun
A collection filled with character and attitude, Samantha Cole presented her alternative yet contemporary art of designing. Being a label not known for playing with colours, the collection kept its usual theme of neutral colours but with a lot of attention to detail. The designer explores a more minimalist style as compared to her previous collections but still focuses on emphasizing beautiful necklines and womanly curves. The blend of fabrics like leather and velvet fabrics with other fabrics very visibly accentuates the boldness of the label and its philosophy of redefining trends and concepts “to reproduce silhouettes that acknowledge the past, have a sense of the future and recognise that there are no limits or boundaries to fashion, just ourselves.”
-Enjoy!
Watch the models sashay down the runway in Zed Eye’s A/W 2011 collection. The boxes for trends for this season were definitely ticked: blue, laces, and colour blocking. With blue as the new black, the designer was able to incorporate this trend while maintaining her signature style of subliminally structured yet feminine and wearable fashion. Enjoy!
Designer- Zedeye
Make-up- Stacy Okafor
Styling- Arieta Mujay
Hair- Sensational
Ada Ogunkeye, co-founder of “Ours by Juliada” a Nigerian beauty Company shares her style with HauTe TV, profiling each piece she’s wearing and what it means to her.
HauTe TV’s “My Style Profile” profiles Africans worldwide with a strong/unique sense of Style.
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