If I tumble, will I fall?

Over a month has passed since my last post on these pages. I'm at an experimental phase. I'm falling hard for the opportunities offered by my new tumblr blog and would like it very much if you could come with me on the journey, by visiting Stylediction, my tumblr blog.
Otherwise, I am also active on The Frock Report
Sartorial blessings, always!

Video: Mantsho at SA Fashion Week S/S

Video: Smarteez at SA Fashion Week S/S

Video: Black Coffee "Form.Function.Furniture" at SAFW S/S

Boosting Durban's Fashion Design Industry

FACEHUNTING IN CAPE TOWN

Blogger Yvan Rodic of Facehunter.org was recently in Cape Town and, of course, he did a little facehunting in Kaapstad before jetting off to his next location. Here are a few happy snaps he took of the Capetonians...

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Emanuelle Alt's First Cover

"It's important to have something to read," French Vogue editor Emanuelle Alt told WWD recently when discussing her take on the title. Alt replaced controversial editor Carine Roitfeld, who left the title late last year. April 2011 is Alt's first as Editor-In-Chief.

Lady Gaga for iD Magazine

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Bloggers Play Merchandisers for Dolce & Gabbana

The Dolce & Gabbana womenswear flagship store in Milan is currently displaying the visual merchandising efforts of six bloggers including Bryanboy and Susie Bubble. Each blogger was given a window on which they had to interprete the label's spring/summer 2011 collection. I think its a cool branding strategy.
Here's Bryanboy's window...

Gosh! How I would love a visual merchandising experience, too!

STIAAN LOUW STOLE MY HEART

There’s nothing I find more boring than the whole idea of afro-centric fashion where the emphasis on “afro” or "tribal" is so glaring that one finds it hard to see past it. Those linenny, heavy materials used in making Xhosa gowns- Sun Goddess style- make me queasy. Somehow, even when designers do their best to make their products practical, few succeed and the rest just leave me with nightmares of some or other traditional ceremony (or an opening of Parliament, maybe), because let’s face it, a lot of it fits perfectly there than it does anywhere else. You can go on about my “Western” mentality if you like, but if African is stiff, then, really, I’d rather remain Westernised.

I watched Stiaan Louw’s show with delight this past Joburg Fashion Week and thought to myself;“I'd give anything to own that entire collection”. The draping; to die for. The light materials; to die for. The Earthy tones; lovely! The subtle references and contemporary outlook on what a modern and stylish African-meets-Middle-Eastern bloke (you can take that to mean whatever you want it to mean) should look like; 100%! The collection felt very tribal but I am not sure what a lot of people meant when they said it was not wearable. Really? Maybe they were just not imaginative enough. I will wear those threads anytime! And not even at a special occasion. I’d rock it as in right now!

Photos: Simon Deiner/ SDR Photo