How I observe Korean Fashion trends

How I observe Korean Fashion trends

In addition to Japan and China, a country that caught my attention is the country's south korea, Korean fashion is not only interesting but always get the attention around the world, of course, is only fashion that will attract attention not only, I believe I am not the only one who hopes the best in me, you all look forward to the best of yourself, so well as the Korean fashion are not only interesting but also cater youth of today, such as the Japanese nation has its own fashion trend, Korea has its own fashion trends.

I had to buy two or three pieces of Korea design clothes before this was interesting and I look stylish when wearing a Korean design not only has an attractive design of this shirt is comfortable in life no matter what the weather, if it be given a score I would give 10 marks the design of this shirt, even though the purchase price a little expensive but not that important why this shirt is able to give satisfaction to me, in short I am satisfied with this fashion.

Not only over the last few days, I often watch Korean drama, in Korea I had a great response in the romantic drama with comedy, drama are not only interesting but not boring to watch, the drama plays like Swallow the Sun, A Man Called God, Winter Bird and the Runaway: Plan B has an interesting storyline and well, no loss if you watch it.

Since that time I was very interested in Korean dramas and Korean songs of course are also listed in my taste, hear,Superjunior and Wondergirl certainly was not the music they are famous around the world and get a major milestone in the music industry, they are much more comes from the Korean music group, not believe, try to listen to their music I'm sure you will be dazzled and impressed with their presentation later hehehe.

No need to talk at length saying those chapters to see if there is not going to believe after seeing the new trust so what if you own a word of truth to assess the extent to which I said earlier, I include here an interesting web site you visit fatherly, there's no loss if you take a fatherly this website, which knows there are fashion design that attracts your attention instead.

For me not only great country in the Korean film industry, music and entertainment but also well-known Korean nation with the technology they are able to compete in international markets products such as Hyundai, Samsung and LG will not only have high market quality products on the world stage is also not necessary in another dispute, Korean brands are available throughout the world as well as the fashion to be very worthwhile if the product has created a collection of Korean in the closet or your home.

Japan Street Fashion

 

I've seen a lot of things that happen in my lifetime, the first thing most important in my life begins with recognizing a world full of joy, the fashion world is a colorful world full of energy and vitality, have you ever wondered how fashion can provide spirit to you, can reflect your feelings and most importantly, able to assure you, all this was going to happen to yourself also.

I live my life a bit boring before, I was not able to enrich themselves with the various accessories that can show me even less attractive in principle, though you are very handsome or beautiful, beauty, fashion, if without it would not be the highlight, as was the fashion play an important role in highlighting the features beauty, the man himself.

Have you ever imagined how a developed country like Japan can show the uniqueness of the fashion to look more attractive and fantastic fashion in the rising sun is far more powerful and attractive they are able to diversify to the extent that fashion is amazing, we can see a variety of unique styles in the city large, especially harajuku, Aoyama, Shibuya and daikanyama,famous with the fashion street and there are various accessories, bags, shoes and other items can be found there with a fairly reasonable price.

Okay we are talking too much here, without wasting time let us take a little bit about the world's most obvious examples of fashion Asian fashion magnetic, development of thriving large open space in the Asia market Asia markets products to a wider stage one of the products broad market in the fashion world, fashion has a lot to expand the global economy and we have seen the fashion industry can give satisfaction to himself.

In addition daikanyama is also a popular place with a variety of fashion design, fashion stores such as the Hollywood Ranch Market, Bonjour Recors, Loveless, Via Bus Stop, Hemisphere, Evisu, Arigato, United Bamboo, Tsumori Chisato, Silas and Maria, actus, Alfredo Bannister , APC, Denime always get attention and go to those who seek a variety of fashion.

Shibuya (渋 谷 区 Shibuya-ku?) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, it had an Estimated population of 208.371 and a population density of 13.540 persons per km ². The total area is 15.11 km ².

The name "Shibuya" is also rates used to refer to the central business district of Shibuya Ward, Which surrounds Shibuya Station, one of Tokyo's busiest railway stations. Shibuya is known as one of the fashion centers of Japan, particularly for young people, and as a major nightlife area.

Shibuya includes many well-known commercial and residential districts Poor 'Daikanyama, Ebisu, Harajuku, Hiroo, Higashi, Omotesando, Sendagaya, and Yoyogi.

Fashion store in Shibuya is like 109, Moussy, Cecil Mcbee, Parco, Beams, Journal Standard, American Rag Cie., Beauty & Youth, And A, Rosebud, Young Marui, Marui Jam, Slap Shot, Tomorrowland, ABC Mart, Loft, Tokyu Hands, Chimaera Luxe, Franc Franc, Afternoon Tea, Timeless Comfort, which is a popular fashion store and the largest in Shibuya, there are a variety of fashion clothes, accessories, bags, shoes, gloves and jewelry items which can be found here.

Harajuku (原宿 "Meadow lodging") is the common name for the area around Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan.

Every Sunday, young people dressed in a variety of styles including gothic lolita, visual kei, and decora, as well as cosplayers in Harajuku Spend the day socializing. The fashion styles of these youths rarely conform to one particular style and are Usually a mesh of many. Most young people gather on Jingu Bridge, Which is a pedestrian bridge That Connects Harajuku Meiji Shrine to the neighboring area.

Harajuku is also rates a fashion capital of the world, renowned for its unique street fashion. [2] Harajuku street style is promoted in Japanese and international publications Poor 'Kera, Tune, Gothic & Lolita Bible and Fruits. Many prominent Designers and fashion ideas have sprung from Harajuku and incorporated themselves into other fashions throughout the world.

Harajuku is also rates a large shopping district That includes international Brands, Brands its own, and shops selling clothes young people can afford.

Fashion store as Another Edition, Bathing Ape, Pas de Calais, Buffalo Bobs, Jackrose, United Arrows, Beams, Lanvin en bleu, TopMan, Top Shop, Laforet, LHP, N.44, Neighborhood, Kinetics, Porter, Yoshida, Chapter is a very popular fashion store in harujuku there are many fashion styles that can be found in harajuku, but it is also known harajuku gothic lolita, visual kei, and decora, as well as cosplayers in Harajuku Spend the day socializing.

Okay other than that Aoyama is one place that is also popular with street fashion, Aoyama (青山; lit: blue mountain) is a Neighborhood of Tokyo, located in the northeastern Minato Ward. Sulawesi the Edo Period, Aoyama was home to other attractions temples, shrines, and samurai residences. Aoyama The name derived from a samurai named Aoyama Tadanari who served the Tokugawa Shogunate and highlighted by his mansion in this area. Today, along with Shibuya and Harajuku, it is one of the most popular entertainment and shopping areas for young people in Tokyo. It is well known for its fashion houses, restaurants, and shopping. Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium is in the North part of Aoyama.

Fashion store like Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Loveless, Tsumori Chisato, Design Works, Prada, Undercover, Frapbois, Bathing Ape, Deuxieme Classe, 10 Corso Como, Paul Smith, Marc Jacobs, Artisan, L'eclaireur, Diane Von Furstenberg, Stella Mc Cartney, Levi's has always visited by many young adolescents, Aoyama, not only is the Famous fashion street fashion trend with a variety of concepts.

In addition daikanyama is also a popular place with a variety of fashion design, fashion stores such as the Hollywood Ranch Market, Bonjour Recors, Loveless, Via Bus Stop, Hemisphere, Evisu, Arigato, United Bamboo, Tsumori Chisato, Silas and Maria, actus, Alfredo Bannister , APC, Denime always get attention and go to those who seek a variety of fashion.

NAIROBI, Kenya | Tuesday 20 July 2010

From the Low Streets to High Fashion

A social enterprise in Nairobi helps former street girls earn a living by making fashionable clothes for women.

20 July 2010

By Philip Emase

One year ago at the age of 17, Monica Nzembi dropped out of high school to marry her slightly older boyfriend.

A former street girl, Monica had grown up at a rehabilitation centre for former street girls on the outskirts of Nairobi. She had found a family and an education at Anita’s Home, and the following year she was scheduled to sit for her secondary school certificate when she chose marriage over everything else.

A few months afterwards while she was heavily pregnant, her husband left for the city centre and simply never returned. A frantic search for him began when he did not show up for three days, and it was two long weeks before his mangled body was found at a public morgue, the cause of death unclear.

Monica was devastated. Widowed before the age of eighteen and her future suddenly a thick cloud of mist, she had no idea how she would support herself and her unborn child.

Her hope was rekindled last February when two Italian ladies founded Get Together Girls (G2G), a fashion project for former street girls at Anita’s Home. The project targets former street girls who are unable to continue with their education and especially single mothers like Monica who have no income. Its objective is to help these girls achieve self-reliance.

The project is run by Grazia Orsolato, an Italian lady who first came to Anita’s Home in the summer of 2004.

A professional in administration, Grazia worked in Milan for 13 years as a customer administration manager with Pirelli. In 2004 she chose to spend her vacation as a volunteer in Africa instead of taking the traditional Western holiday at the seaside or some other exotic getaway. Aged 32 at the time, Grazia had won a place in a “work camp” sponsored by the Italian NGO Amani to enable young Italians to volunteer in Africa. Amani implements the work camp every year in partnership with the Koinonia Community, a non-profit organization that runs Anita’s Home and several other projects in Kenya, Zambia and Sudan.

The time Grazia spent at Anita’s Home had a profound effect on her. Most of the girls at the Home were either rescued from the streets or were born to single parents without the proper means to take care of them.  The centre met their basic needs and provided an education, but Grazia felt there was a need to assist those who were not guaranteed of a future through formal education. She felt it was necessary to equip them with some practical skill that would earn them a living.

Grazia shared this idea with her friend, Italian stylist Roberta Vincenzi, and six years later in February this year, they travelled together to Anita’s Home to launch G2G.

They identified a pioneer group of eight girls, and for two weeks Roberta, taught them the basics of the craft. They learned how to handle a sewing machine, how develop designs, work with patterns and how to sew straight without weaving off course.

 “They learned very fast even though most of them had never even touched a sewing machine before,” Grazia says proudly.

The group operates from a small room at Anita’s Home with just eight sewing machines: four of them manual and four electric. They work six hours a day, starting at nine in the morning and punching out at three in the afternoon, Monday through Friday.

The G2G products are all handmade. Their couture covers all body sizes, and they target both the Kenyan and international markets.

 “In Africa, our target is the middle class,” Grazia explains. “We make classy garments for them using African materials such as the kitenge.”

On July 3, the G2G Collection participated at a premier fashion and beauty expo held at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The three day event hosted by former Miss India-Kenya Pinky Ghelani featured the crème de la crème of East Africa’s fashion industry. Prominent design houses, fashion magazines, indie creators and franchise owners were all present, including Sylvia Owori, the eminent Ugandan designer whose creations have been modelled in Milan and Paris.

The crowd’s interest was roused when Pinky Ghelani introduced the G2G Collection as the creation of former street girls. Just in time with this introduction, the first G2G model emerged in African print trousers and a loose Western-style maroon top. Cameras flashed as the next model strutted her way out in a brown African kitenge blouse and European-style trousers, drawing applause from the sizable crowd ringing the catwalk.

Grazia says the originality of the G2G designs has already drawn considerable attention. A few local companies have expressed interest in stocking products from the collection and the group has also received some orders from Italy through their website.

Grazia wants to ensure G2G gains a firm footing on the Kenyan market before she returns to Italy, from where she will work to introduce the collection onto the European and American fashion markets.

“My motivation is to assist the girls get employment; that is why I am volunteering. I could always go back home to Italy and get a good job,” she explains.

“My dream is to achieve a fashion centre, a sort of complex where production, training and selling all go on, hopefully along Ngong Road,” Grazia muses when asked about the future of G2G. “I hope the girls will have the skills to run everything on their own when this time comes, including administration and marketing. We will introduce some management training for them in the future.”

The G2G project does not have any external funding and Grazia sustains it from her own personal savings. She gives each girl a $4 daily allowance, a modest amount that nevertheless makes an impact considering the high levels of poverty and unemployment in Kenya.

Despite having existed for just about half a year, the project is already touching lives. It has for instance become Monica’s sole hope for her future and that of her little baby girl.

“From my earnings I have my own place, I can afford a babysitter, and G2G has reunited me with so many friends I had left behind at Anita’s Home. I feel less lonely because we lean on each other”, Monica says with a sigh.

The Politics of Fashion

The Politics of Fashion

Written by Sandiso Ngubane

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Politicians popping up front row and on the ramp have Sandiso Ngubane asking: what exactly are they doing there? "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain seated as the First Lady gets escorted out," said a voice over the microphone after a fashion show at Joburg Fashion Week earlier this year.    Two 'FL's attended on alternate JFW nights and should the event have been any longer, perhaps we would have seen all five or six of them- whatever the current count - on that frontrow, next to AFI director Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe and her billionaire, politically connected hubby Patrice.   Some of us were a bit annoyed and the visibly ticked off wasted no time, disregarding the voice and walking out even before we could see the First Lady and her rather large entourage disappear behind the photographers' gallery at the entrance of the show venue.   What are they doing here? Some asked. Do they even support local fashion? A valid question, I thought. Joburg Fashion Week is known for dishing up the most well known faces on the front rows of their events. Some, like Sonia Booth are well known patrons of the fashion industry, but what necessitates the presence of the Zumas at fashion week?   It wasn't the first time we had seen politicians or politically connected folk at fashion week. Over the past couple of years that I have been attending these events I've seen a number of them. At the recent SA Fashion Week, for instance, the Gauteng MEC for Economic Development Qedani Mahlangu was right there clad in Diamond Face Couture (at least she made an effort), chatting to convenver Lucilla Booysen and a number of guests in the VIP lounge as well as on the front row. I proceeded to approach her and pointed my Blackberry in her face, "Why is an MEC at fashion week?" I asked.   "One of the things that I'll be doing as I sit with the promoters is to look into what we can do through our government to support those who are struggling," she replied, "But also to support those who are struggling to emerge and break into the fashion industry. It is very important for the Gauteng economy."   The MEC acknowledged that at present government policy generalises small businesses but said she would like to look into fashion specifically and the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in this sector.   At Vesselina Pentcheva's show Judi Nwokedi, the SABC Managing Director who was recently controversially removed from the ANC Local Government Elections candidate list, rather outrageously - given the timing: not ten days before she was splashed across the local papers - closed the show in a wedding dress.   "There's no hidden politics behind it," Vesselina told ifashion, "Judi is a dear friend, a very inspiring and attractive woman and a client."Vesselina adds that Nwokedi is an ardent supporter of local fashion who wears South African fashion whenever she goes overseas. "If it isn't Vesselina Pentcheva, it will always be someone else."   Good thing Nwokedi was off the ANC Election Candidates list by the time she appeared on the ramp.    Last year in Britain various designers had politicians frontrow at their shows, giving fashion week a pre-election spin that saw the Conservatives and Labour pitted against one another to show support for the British fashion industry. The British government's aid to the industry at the time stood at £24m and Ed Vaisey, now the culture minister, went on a charm offensive for the Conservatives, as the Guardian reported at the time.  "I understand the concerns of the fashion industry, and I am fully aware of the role that the top quality fashion higher ­education we have in this country plays in that," he was quoted as saying, "It is time Westminster took fashion seriously, and this event is part of my plans to do exactly that."    The Conservatives are currently in a Conservative Party-led coalition government.   Back on these shores, Allana Finley, Marketing Manager for African Fashion International says politicians should be invited to fashion week. And maybe she's right. The scrutiny and attention afforded to our politicians by the press could serve as a marketing tool for designers.   "They should be the day-to-day models of our designers' wares. They travel the world and could be the right vehicles to take local fashions to the world," says Finley. "That is essentially one of the reasons we invite First Ladies. They are the global ambassadors of our country and they should be the first ones to boast wearing local fashion designers, a proudly South African statement, as opposed to traditions of the past where first ladies proudly wore Euro-American designers. Now, this time is for Africa!"   Designers are also clearly not worried about their brands being associated with a particular political inclination. David Tlale, who has dressed a number of politicians in the past says he refuses to let his work get politicised. "It used to worry me before because I thought people would think if I dress a politician then I vote for a particular party," he explains, "But at the end of the day I deal with customers. I've dressed politicians from the ANC, DA and the IFP."   As Vesselina put it; "There's no hidden politics behind it."

AfricaNews - SA: Africa fashion designers eye the world - Ameyaw

AfricaNews - SA: Africa fashion designers eye the world - Ameyaw

SA: Africa fashion designers eye the world

Posted on Sunday 7 June 2009 - 16:15

Ameyaw Debrah, AfricaNews reporter in Accra, Ghana

An event aimed at taking African fashion to the world while contributing to the realization of the African Renaissance kicks off in Johannesburg from 12th - 19th June 2009. Arise Africa Fashion Week is a collaborative effort between African Fashion International (AFI) and ARISE magazine.

AFI believes that it is providing the designers from the north, east, west and south of the continent a platform that would stimulate the continent’s creative economy and showcase its rich and deep cultures.

“Africa has long been a muse for the arts throughout the world, most recently in fashion, with the world’s top designers choosing to look towards African techniques, designs and materials to ensure that their collections appeal to a wider global audience. Many great international designer houses have borrowed from Africa in creating their most recent collections, including Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Oscar de la Renta and Christian Louboutin. There appears to be a new excitement around the African aesthetic, and we believe that it is time this is displayed to the world, from the source of this inspiration”, comments Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Chairperson of AFI.

The Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg will sparkle with glitz, glamour and creativity as the elite of designers from the continent gather for the eight-day fashion spectacular, which would culminate into the African Fashion Awards, recognizing the very best of the best in African fashion.

The designers include, Paul Herve Elisabeth (Martinique), Tiffany Amber (Nigeria), Tina Atiemo (Ghana), House Of Diva (Swaziland), Gloria Wavamunno (Uganda), House of Imane (Kenya), Lisete Pote (Angola), Mekdi (Ethiopia), Mustafa Hassanali (Tanzania), Sandra Muendane (Mozambique), Soucha (Egypt), Zineb Joundy (Morrocco), and Bebenoir (Republic of Guinea) among many others.