AFRICA – Beautifaire

10 Nov

Beauties of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

And there it was. The strange machine of talking to myself. Within the black and white photograph, I appeared as any stranger would. Dazed, worldly, beautiful and dazzling. The silence was magnificent as any silence was at the moment of yr in South Africa. I repeat myself. Forget if those words were a part of an essay, prose, haiku or poetry. Rain. It's purity lit up. An emblem. The veil lifted up. Humanity lit up, lifted up in a way. As cold as ice. Plums stored within the refrigerator. Whatever was stolen is that this. Birdsong, foot stomping on the steps by children scribbling within the air, the celebrities’ survival, the change in climate but you see I don't...

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3 Jul

South Africa Shopping Center Gets Creative With Help From AI

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Fashion, Featured

South Africa Shopping Center Gets Creative With Help From AI

CRASHING THE SYSTEM: How AI will transform fashion — in addition to just about every other sector — is a matter of great discussion worldwide. But executives on the Johannesburg’s Sandton City Shopping Center in South Africa are exploring just that with a latest tech-driven ad campaign. The digital campaign plays off last yr’s “City of Icons” campaign, which highlighted tried-and-true wardrobe staples just like the Little Black Dress, sunglasses, trenchcoat, denim, hoodie, suit, shoes, sunglasses handbags and lipstick. This time around there are AI-generated iterations of these things and other styles meant to magnify the campaign’s futurism theme. The photographs juxtapose a model wearing a particular item similar to a hoodie with one created using a Midjourney Bot on Discord. This...

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22 Jun

Expanded ‘Africa Fashion’ Exhibit Opens at Brooklyn Museum –

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Expanded ‘Africa Fashion’ Exhibit Opens at Brooklyn Museum –

Lexie Moreland/WWD A mannequin stands with head tilted, a knee jutting from the deep bias chiffon and woven fabric hemline of Papa Oppong’s Takari T, a T-shirt worn as a dress from the Ghanaian-born designer’s celebrated 2021 Yopoo collection, which evokes a Ghanaian woman’s life from birth to marriage to death. A “Ghana Must Go” bag — the ever-present blue, white and red reusable bags which have come to symbolize the forced migration of tens of millions of Ghanaians from Nigeria — sits on the ground next to the mannequin. It’s considered one of two looks from Oppong included within the Brooklyn Museum’s iteration of “Africa Fashion,” the blockbuster exhibition that opened last summer at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and which...

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21 May