This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Modern African Girl lifestyle, Louis Vuitton and Fast Fashion, Pierre Soulages.
Modern African Girl lifestyle
Societal Norms try to force the Modern African Girl to adapt exhausting lifestyle and body changes. What happened to being natural and aesthetically appealing to the human eye? What happened to embracing our natural bodies without surgical interventions? Of course, if there’s a huge natural problem with a particular body part, you’d probably need fixing it, but that does not change the fact that these now unfortunately normalized surgical body enhancements are mostly not safe and that too many young ladies have died under the knife.
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Utilize your small purse, Luxury watches for those who can't afford it yet, What to wear when travelling far.
Utilize your small purse
Purses are a wardrobe staple available in an array of styles, from duffel bags to satchels, messenger bags, casual backpacks, belt bags, and tote bags.
You don’t always have to carry a handbag, when you can just hold a small purse for efficiency and less stress
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Fashion event clash, Real Dutch wax print and slavery, Silver and gold .
Fashion event clash
Organizing events is not easy but one can sure do make it simple and classy. Timing is key in everything …. Whereas in the event world. Fashion event date clashes a lot in our part of the world unlike the western hemisphere. For instance, New York fashion week will not schedule their events same time as Paris Fashion week…. This gives room for both event and its guest to enjoy the experience planned.
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Event misfires, I am in love with a scammer (by Asha), Toxic bosses, Shortages.
Event misfires….
Wondering what makes Red Carpet Events so intriguing??? The glam, the design, the outfits, the colors, the theme, flashing lights, cameras rolling, photoshoots, backdrops, interviews etc all come to life the night of the event. But one thing is certain, and very unfortunate, the delay in time. For some time now, the fashion events world in Ghana has been poorly coordinated to the extent that the events start 2 to 3 hours later than announced. Well !!! Can we blame them? How can events start on time when guests are mostly arriving late? Also, why won’t guests arrive late when consistently events don’t start at the announced time which then ends up sinking deep into the night, ruining their experience at the show?
This is becoming a norm that needs to be eliminated. The whole thing smells of total disrespect for guests by organizers, resulting in guests also showing up later and so forth. A friend of mine even refuses to attend any event with me, be it fashion or music. And he is right, the recent Rave concert at Kokrobite started 3 hours late and I left before the main act because it was becoming too late and I had things to do the next day, Blue Crest Fashion School Graduation show started an hour late and as I was part of the models they kept me busy doing nothing for 8 hours for a 2-minute catwalk. Poorly organized. You cannot have your guests check their watch all the time instead of focusing on the program, which is the reason why they attend the event.
There are many instances where guests arrive at fashion shows and the center isn’t even ready with the setup and carpets are still being rolled out. So they have to linger around to beat time. So now, if everybody decides to come late, then everybody is on time, which isn’t right.
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Accra fashion week, Sports and make-up, French restaurants in Accra, Song titles.
Accra Fashion Week
Accra fashion week is an internationally recognized fashion event that is set to showcase both models, designers and also recognize talents, and honor patrons. 5years of unprecedented fashion experience from both local and international brands.
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Events lineup, Défilé de mode, Rhythms, Antibiotics again, Snow white without her dwarfs.
Events Lineup
A fashion show( Fashion défilé de mode) is an event put on by a fashion designer or creative to showcase their upcoming line of clothing and/or accessories, during a fashion week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons. This is where the latest fashion trends are made. Here in Ghana it usually happens 1st quarter of the year or last quarter of the year. 
Next on the list of shows coming up this season is Rhythms on the Runway which debuted 10 years ago and is set to go bigger on Sunday November 20th 2022. This year's 10th anniversary is happening at the Grand Arena at the Accra International Conference center with tickets going for Ghc200cedis regular and Ghc400cedis VIP. With quite a number of influential companies sponsoring this show. Highlight of the night is great music, amazing fashion, compelling vision, one people. 
Over the years, this event has graced us with lots of great designers, personalities, musicians, movie stars, celebrities all walking the runway. With an honorary award dedicated after or in between the program line up. Its a creativity meets personality kind of event. Meaning one gets the opportunity to meet and interact with people of high social status at ease. So if you are looking to see a night filled with bliss, glam with music, then make a date because you are going to have the best night ever.
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Fashion events lineup, Our organs, Champagne, Living with crime.
Fashion events lineup
With international fashion weeks almost over, it’s about time for our local fashion shows. Which amongst these shows will be the La Crème de La Crème of fashion shows in Ghana.!!
With most fashion schools students graduating soon, there are a few major shows every individual should look out for this season.
First on the list being Glitz Africa Fashion Week which is set to be their 10th Anniversary this year themed Creativity and Sustainability which gives a platform to African designers and models to showcase their passion whilst promoting and providing clientele for their businesses. Here’s a bit of their program line up.
On October 19th is their influencers’ hangout and cocktail night. This is an intimate hangout for industry players and designers to officiate the grand opening of this year’s event. It’s strictly by invitation.
African ready to wear brands pieces you must own.
Still on fashion because it’s the fashion week season and currently we are being recognized on a larger scale, here are some local fashion houses you must own at least an outfit from their collection.
- Survivor Trouser with Accordion Pleat top by Zakiya Mahama is my favorite piece from the brand’s spring summer ‘22 collection. The trouser’s tie and dye olive details makes it perfect for any occasion being it casual or official. You can find it in grey as well. Check out Zakiya Mahama on social media for more details.
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This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: African Fashion, Karoline Vitto body curves and Gorunway, Luisel and Eliano Ramos die of hunger, Supermodel Cara Delevingne crashes on drugs, looking for a partner, Martin Egblewogbe
African fashion trends of the season
Fashion week season is here again but with a new twist of more African style than regular adopted foreign styles. Ethical fashion is the new trend with the world embracing its sustainability options as a must, here are some of the fashion pieces you need to own in your closet.
Corset tops are seasonless and perfect for any occasion if paired right.
This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: African fashion, Virgil Abloh, Kobbina Enninful, Linda Evangelista, Gold, Fat Fish Restaurant, unwanted drugs, cheating at chess
African fashion is on the rise to go to the top of the global luxury fashion market and I want to acknowledge some of our talented designers who are putting us on this world map.
We should be proud of the likes of South African David Tlale, Nigerian Mai Atafo, and our own Ghanaian Duaba Serwaa, Christy Brown and Joyce Ababio. The list is endless, see this article as an opener.
Every fashion designer puts lots of efforts, energy and love into each custom made design. From the sketch board to pattern drafting to sampling to actual design is a lot of work. Let’s give our designers some accolades because it’s not easy. Not forgetting the team involved in the production processes, from working late to sacrificing their weekends and holidays to bring that masterpiece to life.
Luckily our melanin skin goes well with almost every color when worn right. From our traditional kente, batakari and batik to our borrowed western fabric tailored costumes.
Unfortunately, since the adoption of western outfits in our workplaces Fridays and weekends only are the better days to view African fashion; at traditional weddings and naming ceremonies to family gatherings and other events and even funerals we go back to our roots and show that we are far more fashion conscious than we care to acknowledge.