The Young Designer Show a celebration of the unique achievements of young multicultural fashion designers takes place at The Cockpit Theatre Gateforth Street NW8 8EH Saturday 27 June 2009 at 5.30pm - 9pm. This event will showcase young designers who took part in the very special initiative the 2008 Fashion Designers and Craft makers (FDC) Young Designer Awards.

The Young Designer Show was established by knitwear designer Joanna Marcella her vision is produce a platform for multicultural designers that contributes to the pursuit of tomorrow’s fashion stars.

Joanna Marcella says, “This event is the only platform in the UK that has given several young fashion designers, who are still studying for their fashion degrees, an opportunity to showcase in New York Fashion Week and Caribbean Fashion Week. To an audience of international Buyers, Fashion Editors, Press and Celebrities and work with a team of prominent fashion stylists, hair, make-up artists backstage, and the same international models that walk the runway for the noted fashion houses such as Baby Phat, Calvin Klein, Donna Karen, Marc Jacobs, Luella Bartley and Tommy Hilfiger.

This is a show not to be missed! For more info call: 07940 647 102 or email: youngdesignerawards@hotmail.com

Chic, black and natural female singers are and have always been around us, this week we have decided to give them a big applause for their inspiration. Icons and women, musicians and beautiful, what a challenge !

From Miriam Makeba to Nina Simone, the sixties on the Afro scene should have been elected the most stylish years in the entire Black music history! Dee Dee Bridgewater and Cassandra Wilson appear to us as the reminescence of the Afro-bohemian seventies. The Nubians are empowering our heritage as a gift, an incarnation of the beauty via a traditional look, modernized and made available for us to watch and catch. Stay Beautiful !

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This graceful creature is named Jany Tomba. She has Haitian origin and has posed for the magazine Essence in 1970. Besides the delicacy of his profile, revealed by the play of shadows and light of photography, which immediately draws the eye, is the tied of the scarf, commonly called “Wrap”. The head gear is actually composed of several fabric colors, mixed in shaded tones of yellow-ocher, red-orange and fuchsia. The draped is flat and covers the whole head, crossed through the forehead. The scarves pans were wrapped on themselves, then knotted together on the side, in spiral, creating a large flower.

Evidence that we have invented nothing, that this tied scarf is known today as “Nubian”. Unlike scarves tied up in height, which gives a very energetic and “royal” side, the scarf tied more flat as the “Nubian”, gives the face more softness and roundness. They are also easier and faster to achieve, but can range from very simple with a single fabric, to more elaborate, like the one Jany Tomba is wearing. As it is the Seventies, the colors are shimmering and melting perfectly with this beautiful printed silk shawl. The model wearing an orange tee-shirt, black wide leg pants and wedges heel sandals seems ordinary. But the tied scarf, shawl and the attitude, give the Seventies Sista timeless Sofisticate style!

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The seventies is the golden age of Afrocentrism, political speeches, philosophical, but also aesthetic. African Americans have a thirst of Africanness too long obscured. For the first time since the unfinished dream of Marcus Garvey, they go to Africa, the mind alert. Intellectuals, activists, photographers and fashion editors came with Muhammad Ali and George Foreman for their “rumble in the jungle.” They‘re touching materials, fabrics, beads, bringing in their suitcases Kenté, djembé, African statues, but mostly visions of sculptured hair, braids in arabesques, hair with thread. Return to the American land, they explore a new aesthetics; they are attiring with fabrics of Afrocentric pattern, cover their arms and necks of copper, bronze and shellfish.

Such as actress Novella Nelson, simply majestic in this bustier dress in ultra-soft cotton with its princess train. His face, noble and distinguished, is crowned with small “antenna”(as they say in the country) made with thread. She wears a long shawl worn so royally. The assortment and arrangement of African jewels are gorgeous: a bracelet girded the arm while her necklace falls carelessly to the waist, feminizing a very “manly posture “. Simply majestic…

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