African Fashion Week, Dahling!

Grace Jones in New York and I missed it.

Yup Fashion Week in Africa has just passed and I have been working and missed it completely. Oh, you didn't know that Africans have a fashion week, eh? Well we do just like our sisters from the Northern hemisphere, Africa has its own vibrant taste in fashion,. Generally, Africans are known to wear really bright colors. Like neon green bright, or blind you into submission yellow and very confusing patterns.

I have alot of African colors back home and I can get some from my Aunties relatively cheaply. So need less to say I will never buy African clothes in the United States...there is really little to no point unless I desperately needed them for some cultural event (which because I work and am trying to get my dumb butt back to school) I rarely attend.

Really the only thing I really enjoyed other than weddings and yam festivals were African Fashion Weeks. Its like a lady family reunion. All of my cousins or my Aunts would call and ask if I wanted to go. It was super fly cus it gave me a concept of fashion. Now I was not a sleek dresser but I tried to look somewhat decent when hanging out with my larger then life cousins in their Fendi, Gucci or Baby Phat. Sometimes we would buy tees from the designers just to show our support. The shows were local but it was just funny to see.

I noticed that African fashion week is taking mainstream some of my Aunts called me and asked if I wanted to go to New York. I respectably declined cus I had a busy work schedule and it wasn't practical since I am planning a wedding. Trying to save not spend. Shit, right now if I had a life saber I would cut a penny in half. But I was intrigued: "what else is going on that I don't know about?" "Its been a few years since I have been home (aka Nigeria)"

So I googled African Fashion week and behold the Mecca of all things Girly and African! The new African magazine, Arise had a big colorful fashion week and critics say it was amazing. So here I am now wanted to be a part of the whole scene. I missed Grace Jones and Alex Wek. How do you miss Grace Jones? Any who its ok my reason (my bills) is a righteous one. On the bright side there will be others and when (if God willing) I am more fiscally stable I will begin to go again.

Alex Wek leading the pack. A beautiful colorful bevy of cool dresses and people.

However, I think I will take baby steps. Finish school, get married, get out of debt, get my first hybrid and/or house. Stuff like that. I may never be a fancy leggy model but I can still go to the African Fashion Weeks or at least rock the latest African gear.

cHECK OuT aRISE MAGAzine:

http://www.arisemagazine.net/