It’s still a work in progress but felt like sharing South African fashion & fashion statements with my folks back home. Hence, the birth of Abantu Afrowear. Whatever I find on my notorious shopping spreads & what I can’t buy for myself, well, you’ll find it on this homepage. Ready to be shipped over the [...]
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Abantu Afrowear
Posted in Azania from a street-level window, Beauty Beyond Shelves, Black Germania, I write what I like, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged abantu afrowear, diaspora, fashion, south africa on 4 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i heart fashion #01
Posted in Beauty Beyond Shelves, Time to Bloom: Fleur's everyday good, tagged fashion, my life, pictures, second hand, second opinion on 15 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Am currently sitting in a hotel room in Durban. Too tired to write a proper post but was finally able to save recent pics on my laptop, yay. Hence, below a little fashion spread for all the lovers out there, haters keep quiet please. Just to make you guys smile, that’s all there is to [...]
Treasure Hunt #01
Posted in Beauty Beyond Shelves, tagged etsy, fashion, hand-made, recycled art, recycling on 25 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Am currently in such a shopping mood, you guys gotta bare with me. Look what I found & bought & am soon calling my own: WORSHIP! “Worship” – (c) gjarvisjewelryetc Found it on Etsy, a huge online community/store where people sell all kinds of hand-made stuff. So inspiring, other people’s creativity is a great muse. Since a [...]
Wear Locally
Posted in Azania from a street-level window, Beauty Beyond Shelves, I write what I like, tagged eco-living, fashion, johannesburg, local, second hand, south africa, sowearto, stoned cherrie, sun goddess, sustainability on 22 September, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This weekend I went on a shopping trip with my dear sistah-friend & fellow Afro-Berlinoise Royalty Imeh. We got high high high & carried away on afro-chic clothes. Imeh can reason though: She’d never find these Steve Biko, Angela Davis, I Love My Africa tees anywhere in Germany. High quality, made on African soil, no sweat [...]
Afro Punk Hippie Chic
Posted in Beauty Beyond Shelves, tagged empowerment, fashion, projects on 18 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For all the Afro Punk Hippies out there (I know I’m not alone): Tegonia – A fashionista-sistah in her very own wonderland. She is also partaking in one of the simplest & most progressive web initiatives at the moment: KIVA - “Loans that change lives”, a one-on-one lending system where individuals support entrepreneurs in disadvantaged areas.
