THE MEN IN SKIRTS

Have u noticed how boys on the streets, billboards, magazine covers and even on the streets are looking more and more like girls? The fashion industry has been accused of turning men into fairies. Be this true or not, the world is developing and evolving and truth is men are just becoming more & more comfortable with the bang-in-your-face kinda fashion and are just becoming more androgynous with every copy of ELLE, VOGUE, COSMOPOLITAN and ARISE that hits the shelves.

                                                          
                                                          

I, myself, am not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing but one thing for sure, it just looks damn sexy!!! Have u seen pictures of the runways of House of Ole, David Tlale & Ephymol? Chiffon shirts, skirts, harem pants, turbans? And now the invention of "male-heels" (or whatever term they refer to them as)?
Fashion is evolving and designers across the globe are causing a stir. Some of the pioneers of this revolution are Alexander McQueen, Lanvin, Karl Lagerfeld just to name but a few. African designers have also taken these trends to a whole new level. In a continent where a man who dare wears tight pants, or anything that hugs his oh! so beautifully sculptured silhouette is blasphemous and almost even illegal, this has surprisingly been surprisingly very well embraced.
                                                       
                                                     
 Just the other day, in central Johannesburg, I came across a man in sequined harems, a leopard print tee (slit across his chest to reveal dark, pierced nipples), black biker leather jacket (which must have had only about a thousand zips on it) and black suede and leather loafers. This is the type of thing you only get to see on channel 184. Seeing it on the streets is nothing short of orgasmic.

                                                           



This, however, has managed to cause a stir in circles even so far removed from the fashion umbrella. Does this "new" fashion trend now strip us of our "africanism" & "manhood"?
I don't know. Frankly, I don't even care! As long as those boys keep looking as good as they do, I'm one happy camper. And you know what I find ironic? The more these boys look androgynous and almost girly, the more I find it even more masculine. Makes them seem dark, mysterious, sexy and yet so vulnerable! Does that even make sense? Oh well....

                                                     

Truth is, with every turn the earth takes on it's axis,  the fashion keeps evolving and changing. Be it for better or worse, it's happening and we need to claim it and own it, find our identity within it and create our own revolutions.
That's what fashion is about. Well, at least for me it is!

MANNEQUINS & CIGARETTES!!!

                                                


I've just recently been further annoyed by all the notion that to be fashionably acceptable, you need to be thin. This has been an issue for donkey's years now. I must admit, it only became and issue for me personally when I recently became a 36! Yes, I said it, I'm a size 36. I'm not sure if this just a temporary arrangement or what considering that my weight fluctuates like the mood swings of an Italian woman going through manopause. I have tried every trick in the book to shed the extra kilos but...I was left a 36 still! So...whatever really!!!

 

Anyway, just the other day @ a little gathering, some skinny ass gay boy, puffing on a Courtleigh, says that there is no space for "FAT" people in the fashion industry!!
REALLY?...I mean, it should be a crime this boy to even be allowed to talk about fashion!!
For my own safety, I will not reveal names but MR Price oversized trackpants, Markham boots, a fake Christian Audiger t-shirt from downtown JHB, and fake ass Gucci bag do not necessarily put on front-line as the Hitler of fashion

  

                                                    
So while everyone is so busy discussing who looks more like a cigarette than a mannequin, where do we draw the line as to what is "FASHION"?
I mean I don't need to be educating people about our African silhouettes. Anyone who knows as much as they claim to know, would knw that its not even a common thing for us to be as skinny as the Europeans. We are Africans and AFRICA=BOOTY!
People pay money to look like us yet we fail to embrace what the rest of the world is embracing ABOUT US.
                                              
I mean, the CIGARETTES are paying money to look like the MANNEQUINS but the MANNEQUINS are starving themselves to look like CIGARETTES! Am I the only one who is struggling to find a balance here?
I bet not a lot of us even know why the runway only (well, most of the time) use skinny models.
Allow me to educate: The runway culture was predominantly started by our European counterparts (bear in mind that the majority of the people in these states are skinny anyway) purely for reasons of saving fabric when creating their collections for Fashion Week and stuff like that.
                                                    

 Secondly, the major thing was height. The models needed to be seen by people even on 5th row.  And as we know it, taller people are most likely to be thinner!!! Get it???
So before we start saying that there is no place for "FAT" people in the Fashion industry while puffing on a Courtleigh cigarette that you probably don't even need because you, yourself look like the bloody cigarette, PLEASE bother to be educated!!!
Look, I'm not an activist for some National Obesity Rights Movement, but, all I'm saying is, our curves, our hips and all our full features are what separates us from the rest and we need to embrace it!
                                                     
                                                      
Hey, Haute Couture became what is today because it DARED to be different from all the shit in department stores!!!
JUST SAYING!!! And in true logic, the MANNEQUIN would be the one puffing on the CIGARETTE!!!
So maybe the MANNEQUIN holds the POWER!!!
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