candy coated classics

Zara candy coated classic collection

 Celebrate the summer experience by revealing the colour in you. it is always said that colour has a way of uplifting someones mood, well there is only to find out, you Need to be part of it. being colour doesn't only boost your confidence but it also makes your milkshake bring the boys and girls in the yard.

Square-almost coated shades are everywhere- choose one that best suits you, guess what we have a vast amount of choice for everyone, everyday and always, do not forget though make the right choice, here is your choice list:

• pistachio
• lemon
• lavender
• butter; and be Delicious

The party does not end there we have a list of stores were you can get your "Square-almost coated shades" and the stores include:

• Y.D.E
• MR Price
• Zara
• cotton on

david tlale in new york

it is almost a decade since mr Tlale has launched his fashion brand known as "divalicious". "The industry does not look as glamourous as people percieve it" he said on one of his interviews at the morning live. The diva has finally landed himself the greatest opportunity of a life time,it is no doubt that Mr tlale has a strong fan base in South Africa, however it was not easy for him to go international.

on the ramp: Tlale's N.Y.C presentation

Mr tlale had the opportunity to represent himself ad his fashion works, on he Autum/winter 2013 New York City, his collection was a mixture of bold, earthy and warm colours as the U.S winter is very cold. The show took days of hard work and sleepless nites but judging from the show it was worth it after all.

the show was really great, beacause the number of people who showed up at the event was enourmous and the comments were excellent new york loved our tlale's work. To learn more about the event you can go to twitter were he is sharing his N.Y.C exprience with his fan @tlaleD

Its a Summer Fiesta

It is never too late to learn a few tricks when it comes to fashion,fashion is art you just need to paly a few tricks to get it right but do not be a FREAK. In today's blog we gonna learn how to wear comfartably, stylish and sophisicated. Our daries are booming with list of events to attend for the next coming six months...im talking about your Spring bashes,Cocktai parties, Summer launches, wedding the list is end less. You probably thinking in your head what am i going to WEAR? well relax we are here for you.

Belted Floral Dresses

Are you that girl who always walks in the office and people will start whispering,What was she thinking?Its fine i understand, you just hate the sight of the two piece corporate suit...Try to look the part, Spring offers long, clinchedshape, belted floral summer dresses. The best thing about them is that you can wear them throughout the season for any occasion.

Collarless Blouse

If you cant baet them just join them, every girl knows, everybody knows that for this season you have to own a blouse, Soft collarless blouse alaways have and always will replace your stiff business shirts for a more sophisticated casual mood.

Document Clutch

With new technology the is alawys a change, we know cahnge is good, is best.Slimless document clutch allows your technology gadget such as your iPad,Blackberry,small loptop to be carried everywhere you wish with style.

A Vintange Affair

The girl next door

www.desycom.com



Is fashion your only form of self expression? Or maybe you think your body shape belongs to a different Era? Whatever the reason, vintage look can provide years of joy- just as it did decades ago. Do you wish to wear like the legendary 80's fashion gurus? Do not despair.

Lets Make A Plan.

• When you go for vintage shops do go in the morning, when everything is still unpacked. Avoid the late night shopping because by then people have taken everything
• Bring a camera so that you can be able to to take pictures of items you would like to buy in future
• The value of vintage is subjective only you can decide on whether the price is reasonable or not

• Try on the pieces before you buy them, and go by measurement, not sizing because the sizes were stated smaller cuts compared to the sizes of today

THE DO'S AND DONT'S OF VINTAGE.

DO BUY luxurious fabrics. They always fabulous finds on budget

DO BUY for the fun of it, if you aren't spending a fortune and you love something just grab, pay and own it

DONT BUY anything too small. forget about loosing weight down the track, its loving your score now or never.



The disel vinatge collection
www.vintagesolution.com



Fashionable Durban July Cares

Brenda Quinn's recycled fabrics collection

As the saying goes every cloud has a silver lining and,just in time for this climate change (global warming) weather the lining of the Vodacom Durban July is their  "The Material World" theme.On the 7th of July,the ultra fashionable Vodacom Durban July, had eight(8) designers chosen to showcase their outfits. the task for these designers was to create outfits that promotes and Eco friendly environment using their fabrics. to read more about the Vodacom Durban July Eco friendly project www.entertainment.howzit.msn.com . these were the following designers choosen for the task:

• David Tale
• Zama Mthe
• Brenda Quinn
• Collen Eitzen
• Liegh Schubert(Choose to design the olympic ensemble for our S.A paticipants)
• Teresa Jourbert
• Andre Martin

Tlale and Leigh at the Vodacom Durban July

One of the outfits which stood out from the rest was that of designer Brenda Quinn which was made up of pieces of renewable/ recycled fabrics. Our socialite refuse to be out done they also graced the event with thier Eco friendly designs as a sign that they care and love their enviroment. It is never too late to get in the "Green Scene". Wear to save the world without compromising your style

fashion meets seaoson

South africa fashion show, during thier summer FAL in september

fashion is a universal language. It is no secrete that fashion always paves the way for seaonal change. All over the world different styles, designs and garmets are manufactured to create cultural diversity and a new look and feel

As new season approach fashion gurus take it upon them to make people aware on relevant upcoming trends for the seaoson. Events such as Africa fashion show, London fashion week, New-york fashion week and so forth, this is the plartform where designers use to set the trends by showcasing thier fashion pieces for both men and women. Designers main objective is to ensure that people look beautiful and comfortable every seaoson.

designers might be the trend setters but we are the future for those trends...lets take it upon us to visit the available clothing outlets and be part of the trends. it will also be in our advantage to make means of visiting the fashion show events. there is more to learn than pieces of cloth

Fashion meets Season

Fashion is a universal language. It is no secret that fashion always paves the way 4 seasonal change. Every season all over the world, different style, designs and garmets are introduced to create cultural diversity.

As new seasons approach, fashion gurus take it upon them to make people aware of relevant trends for the upcoming season. Events such as Africa fashion week,London fashion week, New-York fashion and so forth.

Through these events designers set trend by showcasing their latest garments, while ensuring that everyone looks beautiful and comfortable for the season.

Now that summer approaching let's take it upon us to visi different clothing outlets. Fashion gurus might set the trends but we are the future trends.

Fashion meets Season

Fashion is a universal language. It is no secret that fashion always paves the way 4 seasonal change. Every season all over the world, different style, designs and garmets are introduced to create cultural diversity.

As new seasons approach, fashion gurus take it upon them to make people aware of relevant trends for the upcoming season. Events such as Africa fashion week,London fashion week, New-York fashion and so forth.

Through these events designers set trend by showcasing their latest garments, while ensuring that everyone looks beautiful and comfortable for the season.

Now that summer approaching let's take it upon us to visi different clothing outlets. Fashion gurus might set the trends but we are the future trends.

the downside of social media

our reputations in social media as women is ignored

Social Media has been one of the richest form of communication in the new democratic South Africa, it is used by organisations and individuals for various reasons, it can be brand awareness, entertainment, communication the list is endless. Twitter, Facebook, Mxit, whatsapp, and many more are the most frequently used platforms in the universe.

Now i have been asking myself how can something so good and effective turn to something that takes away the lives of our fellow sisters, leave sisters with scares, tears and fear. This brings me to the case of the facebook rapist Thabo Bester who have been reportedly with Case of rape in facebook, he faces the charges of murder and rape.

Are social media platforms safe for women? can we as women be able to share photos of us anymore? in the public relations field social media takes priority in maintaining the brand of organisation, how are we as women going to interact with these organisations if our presence in social media is being threatened.

When do we draw the line?

with the soweto incident about a 17 year old mentally challenged teenage girl been gang raped by 7 boys last week,two debates were arised by thess incidents. Are women the weaker sex to always be the victims of sexual abuse? And the question about parenting? what really surprised me was during my Media Class were one guy said we as girls have adopted the habbit of sleeping over our boyfriends houses without our parents consent.

Then i asked myself are we gonna be blamed for everything that endagers our lives, it was about the two girls who were chased by the taxi drivers at noord in johannesburg, people argued that the two girls asked for it. Why is that everytime our rights are being violeted as women  by the opposite sex and the answers is alawys the asked for it? When are we gonna draw the line?

Alcohol campaigns-Effective enough????

save your child from alcohol abuse.source:www.google.com

We have seen a number of alcohol campaigns,what is believed to be "Good Marketing" campaigns, on a daily basis, from all different media platforms, from our traditional media to our social media. media has along term effect on people's behaviour. My question is do the organisation who sell alcohol take into account how their messages omit important information? From what i know, for a successful campaign the concept of " Integrated Marketing Communication" has to be a priority. where an organisation should have the knowledge that their message will reach a largely diverse audience.

My main concern is that with all the campaigns,messages,adverts and so forth of alcohol, The dangers of consuming alcohol during pregnancy is hardly highlighted, the campaigns are all about promoting their products, are they saying their product comes before their consumers?15 percent of women consume alcohol during pregnancy www.recoveryzone.org/docs/articles/pregnant-women-drinking.html. This clearly indicates how the alcohol campaigns have forgotten about the consumer knowledge. Pregnant women Can suffer the following if they continue to consume alcohol

• Foetus cancer
• Severe developmental or other problem in a child
• Health complications during birth

Organisation should adopt a good IMC(Integrated Marketing Communication) so that they can be a position to create awareness that caters for everyone.because IMC maintains that targeted public range from people who use,buy and do not show interest in their product, this gives public's a great deal of product knowledge.

It is a dress not a YES

South Africa has a firm constitution in terms of gender rights and equality, all it needs its to be championed. With many organisation and campaigns which exist in S.A to help fight for the rights of women who have been abused,sexually, physicaly and so forth. One of three of the 4000 women questioned by the community of information,Empowermnt and transperency said they have been raped in the past year,sourcewww.wikipedia/articles.com these incluedes campaings like:

http://www.womenpowerimage.com/

• slutwalk
• lesbians and gay parade
• Powa (organisation)

As women we rely on the ANC women leauge to be the forefront of fighting such incidents and putting a stop in them,In march, there was a march organised by ANC women league in johannesburg which the laegue presented the memorandum to to the renewal of women rights to end sexual harrasment of women in public,this march was driven by the victimised two teenage girls at johhanesburg noord street taxi rank in january.yhis march was socially accepted version of slutwalk.

The big question is why now ANC women league, there has been several accusation against the league as muted response in issues that affect women,this was questionable when the league was seen in several engagement which was not very good from women point of view like:

• in 2008 succesion battle between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, the women's league sided with Zuma. A man with questionable gender credetials that do not stand up to proggressive standards
• in 2006 Zuma was accused of raping a family friend,Zuma claimed they had consesual sex and beleived she had sent him a sexual signals by wearig a short skirt. sourcehttp://www.mail&gurdianonline.com/

The underlying question is why now ANC women league,the problem has been here far too long,if was acctedp upon ealier a vhanged would have been achieve.

women rights-so right

source:<www.unaidspcbngo.org>

The ANC women's league has confirmed that it will ensure that it makes it their responsibility that prostitution is decriminalised in SA, this was during one of their meetings in Mangaung. the were few major arguments that the league has put up for the nation to consider the decriminalising of prostitution.

• Inequality

the were documentation which were brought forward one which has the statistics of  employment rates in SA, the league believes that women are still not treated equally in the corporate world, hence there is 28% of unemployed women compared to 22.5% among men in SA. Source: <www.africansexalliance.org>

• Public health

The league has also argued that decriminalising prostitution is of desirable of public health, as it will make it easier for the sex workers to come to the heath facilities to seek things such as vct, condoms, family planning and so fourth, without being judged or hand to police, another one is the health safety of the sex workers, according to a study conducted by Sweat, the sex worker education and advocacy,Task group,stated that 12% of the cape town sex workers reported having been raped by police officers.

after a report by census which showed that many people who live in SA are christian, will such act be approved by the society with their believes such as "sex before mirage is a sin" 'your body is the temple of god". Are women rights well practised?

beauty-women perspective



www.beautyblank.com

 last week as i was watching a documentary on SABC2 titled "the beauty". it has come to my attention how the society defines beauty in relations to the physical appearance of a woman. Most men believe in certain aspects of a women parts that makes a women beautiful. The comments made by men in the yahoo article related to style and beauty,Http://www.answers.yahoo.com%3eother-style%20&%20beauty/ includes comment such such as:

• "Big breast"
• "Portable behind"
• "Big brown hazel eyes" 



www.herbeximages.com

 Men are not the only driving forces behind the reason women change their looks everyday, our media also plays a huge impact in the many different definitions of "Beauty" in relation to the physical appearance of a woman, an article on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ it claims that " a person sees up to eight thousands ads each and everyday,from television to billboards" this goes to show how the media influences on the myths accepted by society about beauty these is evident on ads such as:

• herbex "hlasela mafutha for everyone" an ad which aims at influencing over sizes women to loose weight in order for them to feel good about themselves
• elvis tribut artist wigs-http://www.tributer.com/
•   companies such as Avon, with women products ranging from skin care to make up                                                      

these are one of the infinite driving forces that has put an enormous pressure on women ant their image.My underlying question is, is it necessary for the society to define beauty in accordance to the image of a women. What happened to simple quotes like "beauty lies beneath the eyes of the beholder" and "the real beauty lies within". Does the society find women as the precise example for defining beauty?

   

MIRROR MIRROR:YES IT IS YOU

http://www.breakfree.com/

A mirror has always been a women's all times best friend, many females spent more time in the mirror than men. a girl will have a super sized mirror that reflects her entire body, situated on different rooms in thier houses, a women will make it a point that every time she passes the mirror point she stops and stare at herself.

MIRROR AND BREAST CANCER

Once a women is being diagnosed with breast cancer, she spent most of her time running away from any piece that will reflect herself, because she fears what she might see on the miirror. she will stare at the mirror and will start imagining herself without breast,and these thoughts might rise feelings such as:

• being less of a women
• hopelessness
• suicide

Women living with breast cancer should just accept the physical changes that comes with living with cancer,it is OK to befriend a mirror, because the more you see the changes the more you start to accept, your current image.

OVERCOME THE FEAR

people living with the breat cancer can engage in my many activites that will help them regain thier confindence and accept thier current physical image,they can do things such as

http://www.clivir.com/


• join a support group
• take treament
• eat healthy
• exercise

DO NOT LET YOUR HEALTH CONDITIONS INHABIT YOU FROM BEING WHAT YOU WANT TO BE!!!

self esteem versus contraceptive

picture adapted from:www.indiamart.com

for many young women contraceptives has always been the loophole from unplanned pregnancies,sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS.Parents also encourage the use of contraceptives on their teenage daughters especially when they reach puberty stage,the contraceptives can range from,the pill,injection,condoms etc.it depends on what your doctors prescribe for an individual.

picture adapted from:www.indiamart.com

the biggest question now arise,most of the women who use contraceptives especially the injection and the pill have complained about how these contraceptives got them to gain weight.DR Anne Szavewski in may 2011 at the GP meeting said "Being overweight the single most significant risk factor for thrombosis on the pill,the pill taking women whose body mass index (BMI) is 30 or more had 24 times the average risk of thrombosis",http://www.net doctor.co.uk.We living a world were it is believed that if you are a young women you need to look in a certain way,which is slim and sexy,how are you gonna look like that way if you taking contraceptives,this will affect your self esteem,it will kill your confidence especially if you are around your peers,it will affect your self image. Once a young person goes through the problem of acceptance it becomes very hard for them to belong and have positive attitude about themselves

it is advisable that before you can start with your contraceptives you should ensure that you are aware of the risk factors that you might experience,you can also exercise,drink water,eat healthy to avoid being overweight and killing your confidence. there organisations that helps with when you want to regain your self esteem you can visit them,organisations such as love life,ekuphulweni,youth centres.Let us not gamble with our bodies.