‘Fashion’ Archives
The Colours of Sickle Cell fashion show – combining fashion and raising awareness
By: Charles S. Mombo The Colours of Sickle Cell fashion show will raise awareness and funds on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 in Washington D.C. Hosting the event are designers Korto Momolu, Guy Lambert, Renee Nash, April Watts, and Anji Corley. When we at ChocolateCity.cc heard [Read More]
ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Fanta Celah
The talented Fanta Celah is a modern surrealist painter, a jewelry stylist for the stars, and a musician. The talented Fanta Celah is a modern surrealist painter, a jewelry stylist for the stars, such as Les Nubians, Ugochi, Ray 6, and Kelan Phil Cohran. She was featured in [Read More]
Serge Mouangue blends African fabric with Japanese Kimono
Born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the Tokyo-based concept-car designer, Serge Mouangue is an industrial designer and interior architect from Renault who is working in Japan with Nissan Motor Co. He is also the talented fashion designer and brainchild behind the project – [Read More]
Women drive today’s car industry
By SERGE MOUANGUE It is mostly male creators who craft a car's 'sexy body,' but it's women who dictates what sells Hot wheels: Women not only help sell cars but have a lot of influences over which ones are bought. SERGE MOUANGUE ILLUSTRATION There's a [Read More]
Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of LRG hip-hop clothing found dead
Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of LRG hip-hop clothing found dead According to Orange County police, 34-year-old, Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder of Lifted Research Group (LRG) was found dead in his Laguna Beach home. The street clothing entrepreneur and his business partner, Robert [Read More]
Nelson Mandela Foundation Launches 46664 Clothing Line
Source: People of African descent, Africans and Blacks in the diaspora Nelson Mandela Foundation launches 46664 Clothing LinePretty soon Africa's top fashion designers such as Liberia's Korto Momolu, Ghana's Kofi Ansah, Kenya’s John Kaveke and South [Read More]
Korto Momolu Brings NY Fashion Week Collection to Columbus
Source: Connecting Liberians in the diaspora Korto Momolu, international fashion designer and stylist will bring her “2011 Fall Collection” directly from the runway stage of New York to Columbus in the “Peace through Fashion” fashion show. Korto Momolu, [Read More]
Coach’s Handbag PR Blunder over eBay Cease and Desist Letter
Gina Kim with the Coach handbag she purchased with her employee discount at a Coach Inc. store in San Francisco, and the cease-and-desist letter she received from Coach. (AP Photo) A former Coach Inc. employee, Gina Kim, 31-year-old, decided to sell her $428 Coach handbag [Read More]
ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Daria Amerik
By: Charles Mombo on Twitter @CharlesSMombo, www.ChocolateCity.cc on Twitter @burnedbrass The Academy Award does not have an award category for, “Artist who brings diversity to the Arts.” If they did have such a category, the beautiful and talented Daria Amerik of [Read More]
Sole Discretion comfortable foldable rollable women shoes
Sole Discretion’s first premier shoe line lives up to its name with its chic design and ultimate flexibility. Little did these Ohio girls and co-owners Sheree, Sherrae, and Alyxaundria know that life in the city wasn’t all fun and fashion, glitz and glam. It’s also [Read More]
An Interview with Fashion Designer Terri Stevens
By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass Image credit: Barbara Nitke Terri Stevens has made a nameTerri Stevens - owns and designs for her line of clothes - Michael Joseph and funkinbeautiful SeeMombo.com Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites [Read More]
Do You Care if Mrs. Obama Doesn’t Support Black Designers?
By Charles S. MomboMrs. Obama looking beautiful as usual in an outfit designed by Isabel Toledo, a Cuban-born American fashion designer For millions of American women, Jacqueline Kennedy was the fashion standard by which every woman including African Americans on the public [Read More]
Naomi Sims, the super supermodel is dead at 61
Naomi Sims on an August 1973 Cosmopolitan MagazineMs. Sims was born on March 30, 1948, in Oxford, Miss., the third of three daughters of John and Elizabeth Sims. Her father was a porter. Her parents divorced shortly after she was born, and all she knew of her father, [Read More]
Mrs. Obama criticized for non-Black Designer
Michelle at a Barbara Walters show in a rosette-trimmed sheath from Jason Wu.Amnau Eele, co-founder of the Black Artists Association (BAA), is taking Mrs. Obama to task because she did not have her inauguration outfits designed by African American designers. Amnau Eele, is [Read More]
Chocolatecity.cc/blog Interviews Aspiring Fashion designer Anthony Badger
Mr. Anthony “T.J.” BadgerBecoming a real famous designer is definitely a very hard task that requires a lot of patience, conceptual and artistic aspect of fashion, strong will and hard work. This is especially so for young aspiring Black-American or [Read More]
Interview With Fashion Designer Nathalie Konan
By: Charles S. Mombo Nathalie Konan - the brainchild behind the fashion brand NK Style.It is truly an honor for ChocolateCity.cc (CC) to interview the beautiful, talented and successful Ivorian fashion designer whose African consciousness is reflective in her work. Her [Read More]
Stephen Burrows: unrecognized fashion genius
Stephen BurrowsChocolateCity.cc is grateful to Mr. Stephen Burrows (SB) for taking time out of his very busy schedule to chat with us. We are also grateful to Mr. John Robert Miller, managing director for making this interview possible. If you recognize the names Halston, [Read More]
Your favorite black fashion designer
http://www.chocolatecity.cc/black-fashion/index.shtml – focuses on Black Fashion Designers, African-American Fashion Designers, and African Fashion Designers as they relate in one way or another to shaping, improving, empowering and motivating the lives of African, [Read More]
