Brand Launch

I am happy to announce that EIGHTEEN Forever will be an official Fashion Brand after it is launched on Saturday 4th May at Modo Bar in Liverpool, 4-7pm.

It is has been over a year now working on this clothing line. Here is it is..

EIGHTEEN Forever is an emerging online fashion brand with exceptional unique prints in modern design for women. The brand with a social aim of creating a platform for developing machinists to earn sustainable income through satisfactory designs and collaboration with the brand.

Tickets for the fair are available here: FREE PRESS PASS 
Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.eighteenforever.com
Eventelephant: www.eventelephant.com/eighteenforeverbrandlaunch

Alternatively, you can email Fashion Editor- eighteenf@gmail.com

See you there!!

Flyer design: Vive Designs

Fashion Weekender

Keeping it stylish and trendy with a 3/4 bright colour blazer from H&M. Carefully teamed with mid-length black dress and a Zebra-like high heel shoe. Flying high with my Tab..what could go wrong? Welcome to the weekender!

Photo credit: Eighteen Forever

London Fashion Week to Spring

After a bitterly cold winter, all you need is a bright colour jumper to keep you energised and fashionable in Spring. The perfect bright colour and easy to style is Lemon. Yes! Lemon. Lemon is quite admissible to Emerald, one of this season hot colours according to Pantone. What more you could you possible want? It is easy to go wrong with it because it doesn't compliment everybody's skin tone. Olive and Dark skins have more complimentary texture with Lemon more than lighter skin tones. However, your eyes and hair colour can be a great factor to determine the suitability of Lemon for you.

How do I wear it?
Well, you can find many items in lemon- accessories, tops, jackets and even shoes. Be careful with mixing too much colour with Lemon. It can make you look like Pete the drag Master. Wear lemon with black or white. Keep it simple, chic and classy. I styled this Sloane Crew jumper with sleek black and gold. The gold gives it a glamourous look perfect for a night out.

All items styled at asosfashionder

Bright colour jumper

Bering Ladies Ceramic Black Rose Gold Watch £199
Small Black Sloan Quitted Shoulder Bag by MICHAEL Michael Ko £220
Tailored Crepe Suit Trouser £119
Pele Black Boots £129
Sloane Crew Neck Jumper in Citronelle £105

Bright colours are not the only fashion forward styles for spring. Taking fashion to a whole new stage is this Sporty Luxe outfit. The statement jumper, pencil skirts, white hat and of course, a chance to walk down the street with confidence with this earmuffs. Add some knee socks!!

Sporty Luxe

New Look Barney Backpack £19.99Tailored Crepe Suit Skirt £119White Hat from asos £35KN561A Medium Grey Neon Lip Sticks Knit £305Great Jones Wired Earmuffs £75Teramo £190
Alexandra meets Darling

Don't ask me why I call it "Alexandra meets Darling". It just fit. Perfect Madame, yet renaissance. The earings add some fetish twist with the spiders on them. I bet you didn't notice. The shoe has been spotted on Beyonce at this year's Grammy Awards (more on the Grammy's later)

Asos Jewel Beetle Earring £18Goat Hair Jacket £499Black Mesh Bodysuit £11.99Megan Park Patchwork Skirt £351.07Flis Flower Embellished Bag £129Chloe Clever Black Courts £129
 Printed dressThe biker jacket makes it rock n roll. The printed shirt makes it bold feminine and the andro shoes are totally different from the latter, but it works! What is fashion without fun and risk!! 

Snake Frame X-Body £32Asos Astonished Leather Ankle Boot £60Black cropped Leather Look Jacket £35.99Graphic Print Bodycon Dress £8Mirrored Lens Classic Silver Aviator Sunglasses by Rayban £118Image credit: Eighteen Forever**Please ask for permission before using the images**

What I'm Wearing

Welcome to the first post of this year. It has been a wonderful break from blogging. I am happy to be back on the scene for hot new fashion trends and gossip. Being away from blogging was not necessarily away from fashion! I was working on Eighteen Forever new fashion project which is a clothing line for modern and fashion conscious women. I cannot wait to unveil this project to you all. It is a vision to reality project, considering the huge financial bearing and long hours of research and writing. Eighteen Forever fashion shoot will take place on 2nd February in London. For more information, please contact Editor via email: eighteenf@gmail.com

In the midst of all things fashion, it was great to take some time out and create an outfit fit for Autumn but created in winter. Colour is never out of the detail where creating an outfit is concerned on this blog, but this time, creating an unusual modern look with two bright colours and zebra print is highly daring.

What I'm wearing:

LS White shirt £14.99- H&M
Jumper £14.99- H&M
Black & white leggings £9.99 H&M
White & black dotted ankle sock- £2.99 H&M
Pink ankle book £39.99- Very

Chanel bag $1,200 (on sale)

Photo credit: Eighteen Forever

Thank you for visiting!!

Iconicity: Independent, Heritage, Ready-to-Wear

Iconicity Fashion is taking African inspiration and luscious prints and fabrics to the forefront of up and coming independent designers in both the ready-to-wear line and bespoke dressmaking. A culmination of two sister’s love for fashion, their African heritage and London, Iconicity Fashion was born In the summer of 2012 in South West London. Using an intrinsic balance of creativity and business, together Beatrice and Kelly have worked diligently and harmoniously to develop the extremely successful campaign ‘Africa is on your street’. Having harvested their technique and gained a strong following of clients, Iconicity Fashion is heading to full bloom with the launch of their new website ‘www.iconicityfashion.com’ along with their already established blog, ‘the social affair’.  

Silk, crêpe, satin, sequins, cottons, Vlisco, Mitex and Julien Holland wax prints

Iconicity Fashion designs unique clothing, hand stitched and created especially for you. It is important to us to emphasis exclusivity; we create limited numbers of our designs. Our garments are a celebration of individuality and loving production that we want all our customers to share.

Iconicity designs have appeared on the Sporah Show followed up with an interview with the resident blogger, Katherine Wong. Iconicity established a strong reputation by dressing many prominent members of the UK African entertainment community, such as Theodora Ibekwe at the Women for Africa Awards, Miss Victoria Chi-Chi Okafor , Jacqueline Matovu and aspiring model Fashwa Luke.

Iconicity has also designed African inspired costumes for beauty pageants such as Miss Uganda UK, Miss Cameroon UK, Miss Congo UK, Miss Ghana UK, Miss West Midlands and Miss Black Africa. Recently, Iconicity has been asked to feature in the Styleafriq show in Birmingham for Fabafriq Magazine, visiting Calgary, Canada for the Afrikadey! Festival to show the latest ready-to-wear range and lately the  AMfest 2012.

Although still emerging, the designs have also been showcased at London's Fashion's Finest, Kenya's Young Achiever's award and published on All Africa Fashion. Iconicity has recently been featured in the Hounslow Multicultural Festival at the Paul Robeson Theatre.

The Iconicity office has also opened in Hounslow, London for bespoke consultations.

For more information contact Iconicity:

tel: 07833306476

email: iconicity@ymail.com

website: www.iconicityfashion.com

Photo credit: Iconicity

Sequins, Glitters and Sparkle

Glitters, sequins, spikes, studs are all part of AW12 top fashion trends. Sparkles and sequins are distinctly favoured on this blog. Predominantly, sequins and glitters are perceived as what I call the 3Cs- cheap, cheesy and cherazz. You avoid the 3Cs at all cost. During my research on the history of fashion, sequins, glitters and sparkles were not recorded to any era. They evolved through different styles and accessories. However, post 2000 saw a transition of sequins, sparkles and glitters from 3Cs to chic courtesy of high fashion designers during fashion weeks in New York, Milan, Paris and London. Main designers during this era were Alexandra McQueen, Karl Lagerfield, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vera Wang and Christian Louboutin.

Sequins are perfect for festive season party wear, and it is that time of year- with glamour, family, friends and the endless Christmas or new year night out. Choosing an outfit is electrifying, but for some a great act of despair  It can be the latter if you're not fashion conscious  The first step is to always vision yourself in an outfit, then focus on creating something unique with it either with accessories, your hair or even make-up. For my recent outing, I opted for Silver Primary Hue Bodycon Velvet Dress from Topshop £40, Miss Selfridge Shoe £55, Necklace from New Look £12.99, tight from River Island £10. What is festive wear without a hint of colour- Na da! This make-up took 10 minutes. I used L'Oreal Hydrating Moisturiser  Witch Primer, Gosh BB Cream, MAC Foundation and Sleek Lip Stain.

Photo credit: Eighteen Forever 

 

Fashion in Aid of Cancer Research UK

The fashion show and a gig in aid of Cancer Research UK took place on 4^th October 2012 in one of the most famous clubs in London “Jalouse” and was organised and produced by Edyta Grace who put together a show including people from different cultures.  The audience saw incredible collections by the following designers: Rabbaney Skakeel, Angel Sadel, Mz fashion, JB Afrique, Be You T which were worn with grace and style by professional models including Gabriella Gatehouse the current Miss teen England Royal Galaxy and the Miss Teenager England 2012, male winner of Top Model of Colour 2011 Raphael Olaiya. 

The audience was entertained by an international artist Randolph Matthews, Antarma  and J-Sol who performed his debut single “Alien”.

Nana Afua Antwi – Top Model, designer , founder of Akosua Odei Foundation was co-hosting the event with Lewis-Duncan Weedon, Ohema and Jordine Bartlett making sure that the event went smoothly and that the auction is going to be successful.  

Stuart Phillips, a hairdresser to the stars, three times official BAFTA hairdresser and world's most expensive stylist offered a cut & blow-dry in his swanky Covent Garden Salon, cut & styled by the man himself to a person who gives the best offer during the auction and we had the winner who paid £150 for the voucher raising money for the charity.

The event was attended by people from fashion industry– Gerald McCann –, Danish Wakeel, Angela Plummer – 13 times award winning hairstylist, Janita Francis, Lisette Mibo and many fashion designers.

The event was also supported by press who sponsored the images:   iDeLick Media & Creative Photography (Voted Best Photographer of the Year at BEFFTA AWARDS), See Li, Daylight-News UK, Embrace Magazine with the representative Mo Abdulkadir ,  Mariousz Czajkowski, Femi Best Touch , Shoggy Tosh and Neto FlashstudioTV.

Credit: All listed photographers 
           Anglo Nubia