There’s nothing like walking down the street secure in the knowledge that if a gunfight breaks out you’ll be wearing bulletproof fashion. I’m not speaking of bulletproof clothing, but bulletproof fashion. The difference is merely a fashionable one. You’re looking at...

Reading the online edition of Vanguard Newspaper, Nigeria’s daily, one starts to think that the fashion worlds on different continents are are not so dissimilar. Reading through YEMISI ABAH’s article is like looking through a mirror albeit with some obvious differences. Abah,...

It’s interesting how insulated we can be. Here in Hong Kong I watch Big Brother, not realizing that Nigeria has it’s own version of the Big Brother show. The Vanguard Online Edition has an interview with a star from Big Brother Nigeria. Helen Eremiokhale was interviewed by the...

Marc Bouwer is one of the more prolific designers of our day. Creating a variety of pieces for the high street, for QVC (M for Marc Bouwer) and for Hollywood. Now South Africa’s native son returns home for completely altruistic reasons. Bouwer has come out in full support of Sun...

How a woman can forgive a man responsible for the death of her family in the Rwandan Genocide is beyond most people. But survival through the country’s most difficult time brings stories of hope like this one out in many different ways. On CNN today is just one story of a woman who went...

After much turmoil and violence not normal to relatively stable Kenya, it looks like things are returning to normal. What better way to assuage the savagery and fires that burn in man than a fashion show with models. The Kenyan tourism board feels that that is the way and as a result they are...