Caribbean Style Young Designers Make Cool Clothes For Hot Climates
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- Caribbean Style Young Designers Make Cool Clothes For Hot Climates
- Ras lebogeng’s preaching pictorials
- Mixing it up at a music marketplace
Caribbean Style Young Designers Make Cool Clothes For Hot Climates
CBS News – Jul 24, 2007
Caribbean style is meant to be worn on a hot sunny street said Beth Sobol founder of Miami Fashion Week a spring event that draws designers from South America Italy and Spain among others. ther designers elsewhere occasionally use Caribbean colors. A recent Christian Dior collection prominently featured the red gold and green frequently identified with Bog Marley his reggae music and Jamaica. But the look hasn’t been adopted much beyond the islands or Miami. The Miami-based designers are succeeding though at building local brands aimed at fashion-conscious buyers within their own communities Sobol said. “A lot of T-shirts little skirts cargo-type things. It’s more casual day wear flowing cotton and silks” Sobol said.
Ras lebogeng’s preaching pictorials
Mmegi nline – Jul 24, 2007
According to the 28-year-old dread-locked star from Mahalapye Rastafarianism is a movement of people opposed to any form of oppression. lebogeng otherwise known as lebogeng Mafatlha believes that as a black man he was born a Rasta. He says when he was growing up he loved reggae music and his mind was always preoccupied by thoughts and questions about life. “After finishing my secondary education it was during that time that I started to experience livity and became conscious of the presence of Jah in my life” the Rasta man remembers. According to the Rasta lingo livity means life in general. It is that consciousness that took lebogeng to the speeches of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia who also calls Rastafari the godhead. Acording to one of the teachings of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie turned his life around when the Lion of Judah said:”The temple of the Most High begins with the human body which houses our life the essence of our existence.
Mixing it up at a music marketplace
The Age – Jul 24, 2007
Some acts featured performers who migrated as a group toAustralia — such as the Eritrean Star Band whose members havejust been granted permanent asylum here and who performed twoslick but catchy Afro-pop tunes. The Africa Collective on the other hand brings togethersingers and instrumentalists from different African countries. nSunday the collective was fronted by the reggae singer WilliamKadima and accompanied by the Melbourne-based Nicky Bomba ondrums. Bomba has been a Visible mentor for a number of bands and hisgenerous input added energy and bite to the three acts he performedwith. He has also formed an ongoing musical partnership withEthiopian singer and masenko player Dereb Desalegn who appeared onSunday with his vibrant Drums and Lions ensemble. Perhaps not surprisingly the evening’s musical highlights camefrom the most experienced performers: indigenous singer KutchaEdwards a Senegambian griot Jali Buba Kuyateh and the Afrohip-hop outfit Diafrix. Edwards offered a simple but potent protest song his serenedemeanour softening the sharp-pointed lyrics.
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