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Ball Gowns & Afros

The New York Times Sunday Magazine for August 21st ran an editorial featuring various artists with natural hair/afros wearing evening dresses.  All photography by Alice O’Malley. Corinne Bailey Rae...

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African Women in Film – Nikyatu Jusu

During my day job, I spend hours staring at tiny numbers in tiny little gray rectangles, manipulating them (not in any sort of untoward way), cajoling them, squeezing out whatever essence they have to...

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Bergdorfs + The Faces of 5F

Bergdorfs is the place where dreams are born. Period. Bergdorfs recently ran a competition to find the faces of 5F (their fifth floor). I only got wind of the competition after the Bergdorfs newsletter...

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Better Know an African City: Move, Learn & Eat

Better Know an African City – is part of an ongoing series of posts on African cities on Cherchez la Curl.  The series aims to collate information on and expose the quirks, infrastructure and beauty of...

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Ankara: Acne + Daniel Silver Capsule...

Looking through my recent posts, I notice I haven’t really put up anything around the topic of African fashion. I am suffering from an acute case of ‘African fashion’ fatigue, the primary cause being...

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American Vogue + Africa’s Best Dressed

I am home at a decent hour this evening, and for that I thank God. After a long week at work, I’m looking forward (as I always do) to the weekend. I’m taking a train to somewhere nice and tucking into...

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Vogue Festival and Fashion Stories

Fa-fa-fa-fashion! For some reason, the e-mail from the organizers of the Vogue Festival hit my multiple e-mail accounts simultaneously causing a sort of fashion-driven sonic domino effect: an email...

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I Can Speak Yoruba

Coming soon to the Apple App Store. SpeakYoruba: a mobile app providing a gentle introduction to the Yoruba language. Visit www.SpeakYorubaApp.com for updates and to join the mailing list. Throughout...

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On African Women & Yoruba Folk Songs

One week after the Olympics, I am still caught in a hazy web of happiness brought on by our collective cheering for our sporting comrades (in my case, Team Nigeria, Team USA and Team GB). I was slow on...

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Happy Sunday, Real Estate + American Vogue

This has been the bankiest of Bank holiday weekends, funky weather et. al. I’ve been listening to a lot of Morning Becomes Eclectic (whilst taking a break from the awesome Gidi Lounge, of course),...

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