Today I went fabric shopping for a dress I've been requested to have made. I love the fabric I chose; a golden-brown kitenge (popular African fabric) with some beautiful embellishments, and a plain black stiff kitenge.

Golden-brown kitenge with silver embellishment

Shiny-stiff black kitenge

The client preferred green and/or brown as a choice of color.

The Language of shoes

Recently as I was reading an article in Vogue.co.uk, where Louboutin was giving his insight as to why women would endure wearing killer heels. "There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men…The language starts with the shoe and radiates over the whole body. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes. Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character. ...That's why women are happy to wear painful shoes.”

Artistic fashion - John Galliano

Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillén (best known as John Galliano) is a renowned British fashion designer born in Gibraltar (28th November 1960). You know those designers that you look at their shows/clothes and wonder “where in the world do you wear that?” Yea he’s that kind of designer (honestly I never understood such fashion until recently so don't worry, your not alone).

He has been the head designer for couture houses, Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996) and Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011). He also has his own label John Galliano.

His success is largely attributed to the highly respected fashion trend setter, Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue, and Andre Leon Talley, then European Correspondent at Vanity Fair. With their assistance he managed to secure the necessary financial backing and high society stamp needed to give him credibility in Paris, in 1993.