Showing posts with label african. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Lookbook: Maki Oh Spring 2014 RTW.


26 year old Nigerian designer Maki Oh has been making a splash with her fashion forward designs and collections. She was recently nominated for the LVMH Prize, which is an award that acknowledges and reveals 30 young designers, eventually recognizing one designer and 3 fashion school graduates as winners. This year, she was among up-and-coming designers like Shayne Oliver of Hood by Air and womenswear designers Tina & Nikita Sutradhar of MIUNIKU.

For Oh's Spring 2014 Ready to Wear collection, you'll notice shimmering colors of emerald, red, and blue, along with fringe, sheer panels, crop-tops, and amazing bell sleeves. If you'd like to see more from Maki Oh, head over to style.com to check out her latest collection for F/W 2014.

Are you feeling Maki Oh's Spring 2014 RTW collection?

Friday, March 14, 2014

Stella Jean Fall 2014 RTW.

Stella Jean F/W 2014 RTW
Italian-Haitian designer, Stella Jean is known for taking cultural staples like African-inspired wax prints and hand-woven stripes from Burkina and transforming them into well-tailored pieces with perfect silhouettes. She combines these beautiful ethnic prints with graphic tees and button up’s in a classic yet modern way that only she can perfectly execute.

For Jean’s Fall 2014 Ready to Wear Collection, she introduces Italian crafted prints that were inspired by traditional Japanese art. Jean stated backstage that the Italy-made pieces took an amazing 250 hours to create. Staples of this collection include floor length kimonos, alpaca dusters, beautiful wrap dresses, coats, and bold prints.

You can find more from Stella Jean here.