LAUDME HAS ME



I'm sure you've noticed by now that I'm into cool things - those things that are brazenly hip, that make you want to be different and audacious - those things that have that "POW!" factor. Well i think i have found another one of those things this week.
LAUDME.
Pronounced "laud (the verb) me (the pronoun)" this brand was started by a young New York native by the name of Natalie Thompson who designs all the clothes herself, the photos i've chosen are from the Laudme Spring/Summer 2011 "Peep Show" collection which include bright coloured t-shirts and tanks with artwork inspired by 1930's and 40's pin up girls - "They take it off so you dont have to".
Edgy, youthful and (obviously) cool - Laudme has many going wild, for good flippin' reason.

You like? Go to Laudme's official site

BECAUSE SHORT HAIR CAN BE COOL

At the end of June I'm getting a weave - it will be my first weave ever and many tell me that I will never be able to turn back after that.
I defy that statement.
One day my hair will be this short and I WILL look this cool.

oh yeah, before i forget, these equally undeniably cool clothes are from a brand called Culture Call whom Agyness Deyn is the face of - but, i mean, come on guys - she is a living testimony that people like me can have a boyish haricut and still look human, more than human in fact!



Okay so...u cant see her hair in this photo - its still a gr8 pic tho :)



Want the cut - and the outfit!

LOVING: AJAK DENG

From the dust, decay and a putrid hopelessness of refugee camps to the gloss, glamour and allure of the runway Angelique "Ajak" Deng has seen it all and the fashion community all over the world currently can't get enough of her.
And neither can I!
This six foot (yes, you heard right, six foot) beauty has the lips of a Jolie and legs for days, but, above that, Ajak has a magnetism, her beauty pulls and tugs at camera lenses and produces pictures that are beyond beautiful, BEYOND! Now a Sudanese Australian living in New York she is - literally - gracing the covers of Vogue and I-D and adding that lovely Sudanese flavour-flave to editorials the world over.
You have just GOT to love her.

i stumbled upon a gem

so they are was...looking at various pictures on my current absolute FAV website fashion gone rogue when i stumbled upon this AMAZING vogue editorial shoot - think EDGE taken to another level, another flippin' stratosphere! But then again its more than just edge, there is a great sense of sophistication to the outfits, and in other pictures theres also a great sense of delicacy...as if a ballerina suddenly fell in love with the idea of becoming a dominatrix (it sounds crazy i know). yeah...its like that. I love it, i love abbey lee kershaw and the aesthetic she adds to the pics and i thought it would be completely sinful not to share these gems with you all.
Enjoy :)
Photographer: Hedi Slimane (who is sooo cool)
Model: Abbey Lee Kershaw
Stylist: Sarah Richardson
From: Russian Vogue April 2011

You see what I was saying about the ballerina-dominatrix?or was i just being weird?

SAFW (CONTINUED)

source: missmillib.blogspot.com

Photographer: Chris Saunders

edited by: me :) aka Sabu

Sorry I haven't been able to fully update you on more fashion week favs this week - how do they say? "back to school, back to reality"? Yeah well, thats partly why I've been so slow.
But fear not!
I can't wait to show you some of the SPECTACULAR peices the Spring/Summer fashion show yeilded this year, top top class peices with that lovely hint of 'made -in-Africa'. Okay lets jump straight in!

'Mantsho' is a Sotho name which I am totally inadquate to properly translate but according to the creator of the brand (Palesa Mokubung) it means "brutally black" and explains the roots of a young black woman. Palesa explains the Mantsho woman as one who is "hard but very soft, sexual, edgy but uniform and perfectly African" - this season Mantsho encapsulates that sexy, edgy yet home-grown ideal with form fitting dresses, shweshwe materials, killer shoes and originative makeup and hairstyles.

I like this label because the Mantsho woman is one of all sizes,
she is the everyday woman you know?

I think these peices are really cool and I love the fact that traditional African material is used in such an innovative way (like the pic above) BUT though this was a good show there is one specific show I believe would  HAVE to be one of my ABSOLUTE favourites so far...

Kepi, Sebu, Floyd and Thabo - four Soweto natives whose main aim is to peirce through that curtain of mediocrity with their outlandish and unconventional pieces. There fight against blandness and conformity is evident with their cool yet VERY different take on ...everything.
I just think they are so cool - and right now, my life's aim is to one day work for them.
I'm such a fan.

Source: dazeddigital.com, ifashion.co.za, and missmillib.blogspot.com

HOMEGROWN PROFESSORS

Photographs: Chris Saunders found in missmillib.blogspot.com
Edited by:Sabu Mdee
Label: Black Coffee
Theme: "Form-funcion-furniture"

So...while I was away last week (the events of which i will be sure to disclose very soon) the much much anticipated South African Spring/Summer 2011 fashion week started. It now remains a must that I showcase what some of my favourite designers have done so far.
Speaking of favourite designers, just the other day i was in one my retrospective-amateur-and-fleeting-philosophical moods while watching fashion t.v ; i was watching the collection belonging to someone who is supposedly my favourite designer to date and I just thought "what makes your favourite designer, you're favourite designer"? because, honestly speaking, its not like i absolutely adore everything my fav designers or labels come up with every season, sometimes, i'm just like the rest of the world and I think "Okaaaay, what the hell is that?" so why is it that I, like a moth to an opiate-flame, keep returning to them?

I'd like to believe that its because they are the ones that most help you understand; I didnt come into this whole fashion 'thing' knowing everything about it; but through Marc Jacobs, through Zac Posen and David Tlale, Kluk CDGT, Black Coffee, Stoned Cherrie and Vivienne Westwood I begin to see (not always immediately) the intricacies involved, the stories told and how they are told and, more simply, why a certain item or idea is a trend or not. They are my lecturers and I am the new keen ninteen year old student, sitting in the front row, scribbling it all down frantically, thirsty for a bit of knowledge. So right now, this week, we talk about the local fashion-miagi's; no they are not as renound as the Zac's and Viviennes of the world, but they inspire me just the same, and they confuse me, and they suprise me and - most importantly- teach me...and thats what matters.
So then, i present to you the first 'lesson', by Black Coffee. Having been missing from the SAFW runways for the past three seasons Black Coffee emerged with the alien-like theme of "Form-function-furniture" - this was all about laser disks twisted to form the most beautiful, futuristic pieces.

You like these pics? Go to missmillib.blogspot.com or check some out at ifashion.co.za

BLOGBINGE: EDITORIALS

Fashion editorials are all about the art of story telling - thats why i feel it wouldn't be right if i drag out this blogbinge for too long, I believe the pictures should speak for themselves - my job here today is to simply showcase these works and let u interpret them in anyway you see fit.
I hope you appreciate the art within this art as much as I do.

LEIGHTON MEESTER

KAROLINA KURKOVA

CHRISTINA GOTTSCHALK

ANNE WARD