Ozwald Boateng Closes London Fashion Week

To celebrate 25 years in menswear the iconic Savile Row tailor Ozwald Boateng is closing London Fashion Week with a spectacular show held in Screen 1 of the Odeon Leicester Square on Wednesday 22nd September 2010.

Globally renowned for melding traditional tailoring techniques with sharp cuts and a very modern use of colour, Ozwald Boateng has dressed an incredible array of A-list talent (David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Robbie Williams, Daniel Day Lewis, Jamie Foxx to name but a few) and, even, the world’s most powerful man Barack Obama.

To celebrate 25 years in menswear, the iconic Savile Row tailor closed London Fashion Week with a spectacular show held in Screen 1 of the Odeon Leicester Square on Wednesday 22nd September 2010.

The red carpet event in Leicester Square was attended by over 1,500 guests including VV Brown, Amber Rose, Piers Morgan & Celia Walden, Kelly Hoppen, Sam Branson, Mica Paris, Ed Vaizey - Minister for Culture, David Haye, Lisa Butcher, Melissa Odabash, Michelle Williams, Jo Wood and Nick Rhodes.

Footage from the red carpet was transmitted to screens inside the Odeon. Boateng also used the opportunity to exclusively preview the documentary film ‘A Man’s Story,’ which candidly charts his business and personal life throughout the late nineties and the noughties. Filmed over the space of 12 years, it provides a unique insight into how the most talked about tailor on Savile Row has become a global luxury menswear brand.

The groundbreaking show began featuring over 100 models, including Tyrone Wood & Sam Branson, wearing both A/W 2010 and S/S 2011 collections. To further add to the cinematic feel of the evening, the event featured surround sound and a bespoke fragrance (created specifically for Ozwald Boateng for the event by Professor de Parfum Roja Dove) was piped into the auditorium, immersing viewers in an unforgettable 4-dimensional experience.

Following the show the 100 models walked in procession through Leicester Square, across Piccadilly and up Regent Street to Ozwald Boateng’s Savile Row atelier.

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HotGritz said:

SCNDLS said:

^^^ Aight, cool. As long as I'm Wife #1 and them checks come on the 1st and the 15th we can do this. Keep it all in the family like Kimora, Russell, and Djimon.

Yeah, he dresses a lot of Hollywood dudes: JT, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Ryan Seacrest

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I just want a lump sum settlement and I'm on to the next meal ticket *cough* I mean father of my child whuxt I really aint tryna have but wanna get paid.

Oh yeah...Ryan Seacrest...forgot about him. Ozwald turning all these nouveau riche into world class fashinistos!

I hear ya . . . on the next one.

I'm absolutely loving this thread. My computer is acting up so I can't load all pages. Has anyone posted Inventions by African Americans yet?

MJJstudent said:

ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Oh wow....these paintings are speaking to me very disturbing truths...

I"m moved..

her work is indeed compelling... i'm happy because i recently found her book 'tar beach' at a garage sale... her daughter is michele wallace, who wrote the book 'black macho and the myth of the superwoman'. i don't agree with the premise of the book (since i do support black nationalism in many ways) but i do feel the book needed to be written, in order to create a larger discussion. i have an original copy of the book, but in later years she actually changed her opinion about certain things since the original publicagion of the book.

cara walker's work also shares similar sentiments as ringgold's i think. it tells the natrratives of people who were either slaves, or descendents of slaves, and the modern ramifications...

I like the approach of to each painting.

The first one however, made me cry. Reminds me of Roots, when they sold Kizzy.

sweething said:

I'm absolutely loving this thread. My computer is acting up so I can't load all pages. Has anyone posted Inventions by African Americans yet?

Nope! Go ahead if you want!

Beautiful black children

This girl has hair similar to mine...

SCNDLS said:

My baby daddy with my sidepiece Dhani Jones

I remember that, when Dhani was playing rugby. Good show, that. He did muay thai in one of them too.

I don't know if this is "culture" or not.

Years ago I took a job at a Victoria's Secret in Underground Atlanta. They paid shit and didn't want to give health care so we had close to 20 employees all working part time. The store manager was black, the 2 assistants were white and I was the only white girl among the regular staff. My coworkers kept me in stitches from the moment I walked in the strore. I totally loved that funny ass job. I never met such a diverse group yet they all somehow got along and ribbed eachother constantly but not hatefully. We had the very religious and the atheist, the maximum high maintanance and the "chapstick is my only make-up " type.

I guess what I love about my experience was the fact that they could lovingly tease and totally disagree on major stuff yet have each others back when the shit hit the fan. Is that "culture"?

Had to repost my bady daddy's images

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This is an Ethiopian dish "Kitfo" (raw meat). Doesn't it look like a plate of red beans and tortillas?

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ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Beautiful black children

This girl has hair similar to mine...

(A few) African American Inventors*

Dr. Charles Richard Drew - Bloodbank, long term preservation of plasma

Dr. Patricia Bath - Cataract Laserphaco - removal of cataracts using laser technology

Clatonia Joawuin Dorticus - Machinery: dying shoes and shoe heels, embossing machines, photography developing, leak stopper for hoses

Phillip B. Downing - Street letter drop Mailbox

Garett Morgan - Gas Mask, traffic signal

Dr. James E. West - Microphone

Sara S. Gooode - Folding cabinet bed (predecessor to ironing board)

Elijah McCoy (truly the real "real McCoy") - steam engine lubricator

Norbert Rillieux - improved Sugar processing

George Washington Carver - hundreds of products from alternate processing methods of peanuts, sweet potatoes, soy beans and peacans, including, glue, dyes, rubber substitutes & adhesives and many other products.

George Crum - Potato Chip

Madame C.J. Walker - Hair care products for African American hair, via door-to-door sales

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams - Open Heart Surgery

Dr. Staneley E. Woodard - true Wireless Sensors

Granville T. Woods - Innovator of Railway systems including controlling flow of electricity, railway communications systems, sensor-type devices

Valerie Thomas - Illusion Transmitter - television technology

John Thompson - Lingo Scripting/Macromedia delivering Shockwave movies

Rufus Stokes - Air Purification to reduce gas and ash emissions

Edmond Berger - Spark Plug

* The list above should by no means be considered complete. Many of the inventors listed here have multiple patents for many different inventions

There are numerous other individuals not listed who have made and continue to make incredible advancements in the areas of research and development of new technologies and systems as well as to improve upon existing technologies, machinery and systems.

For more Information: http://african-americanin.../index.php

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sweething said:

(A few) African American Inventors*

Dr. Charles Richard Drew - Bloodbank, long term preservation of plasma

Dr. Patricia Bath - Cataract Laserphaco - removal of cataracts using laser technology

Clatonia Joawuin Dorticus - Machinery: dying shoes and shoe heels, embossing machines, photography developing, leak stopper for hoses

Phillip B. Downing - Street letter drop Mailbox

Garett Morgan - Gas Mask, traffic signal

Dr. James E. West - Microphone

Sara S. Gooode - Folding cabinet bed (predecessor to ironing board)

Elijah McCoy (truly the real "real McCoy") - steam engine lubricator

Norbert Rillieux - improved Sugar processing

George Washington Carver - hundreds of products from alternate processing methods of peanuts, sweet potatoes, soy beans and peacans, including, glue, dyes, rubber substitutes & adhesives and many other products.

George Crum - Potato Chip

Madame C.J. Walker - Hair care products for African American hair, via door-to-door sales

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams - Open Heart Surgery

Dr. Staneley E. Woodard - true Wireless Sensors

Granville T. Woods - Innovator of Railway systems including controlling flow of electricity, railway communications systems, sensor-type devices

Valerie Thomas - Illusion Transmitter - television technology

John Thompson - Lingo Scripting/Macromedia delivering Shockwave movies

Rufus Stokes - Air Purification to reduce gas and ash emissions

Edmond Berger - Spark Plug

Otis Boykin - improved electrical resistor used in computers, radios, television sets, variable resistor used in guided missile parts, a control unit for heart stimulators, a burglar-proof cash register and a chemical air filter

Marie Brown - Home Security Systems, close circuit television systems

Frederick Jones - Automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks

Benjamin Banneker - built the first clock in the United States (using only a watch as a model)

* The list above should by no means be considered complete. Many of the inventors listed here have multiple patents for many different inventions

There are numerous other individuals not listed who have made and continue to make incredible advancements in the areas of research and development of new technologies and systems as well as to improve upon existing technologies, machinery and systems.

For more Information: http://african-americanin.../index.php

x

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Well that's good to know and see in this thread that places like London and New York seem to have opened their hearts and the doors of their fashion industries to black/non-white talent, it's encouraging. I suspect though that this is happening more in capitals/cities in the West. I lived for 8 years in Moscow, Russia [mid-1999-2008] during which I saw a nascent but interestingly developing fashion industry. However, it was all white, white: no non-white models, nor any influences from African countries/culture in the designs and materials. Things are changing fast and I think they will eventually come to it, but it will take time.

lavender1983 said:

Thanks on behalf of my buddies @ ThrutheEyesofWonder and MJJstudent.

And yes thanks Flo6, there are definately a slew of incredibly talented African designers who are superb in everything from Ready to Wear, Couture and Bridal designs. But things are changing slowly but surely because I had the opportunity to attend Couture Fashion week back in February of this year in NYC and a handful of the designers showing collections were African because it was a special "Focus on the top African designers" day. But many others have also made it into regular Fashion Week showings mingling with well known American designers. It's very nice to see.

Great thread!!!!!

Greatest dancers in the world...inspired many...

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We cannot nitpick when dealing with black culture. There is good and bad and frankly, todays black culture is pretty debased--lots of apathy, poverty, crime, idiocy, bad culture, bad diets, cell phone cults, saggy pants gangsta stupidity consigned as false hipness.

Nobody defends black culture more than me, but there is bad as well as good. African American leaders need to take back their culture.

ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Beautiful black children

[pics]

I let out an involuntary "awww" when I scrolled up and saw that little girl at the top. Made me think of this song, which was also in my head a few weeks ago when I passed a multicoloured throng of urban tinys from a local school, going two-by-two, hand-in-hand, through the city on some kind of excursion (probably to the local swimming baths or something); ambling along in that everywhere-but-where-they-should-be way that kids have of walking, and waving to anyone who'd take an interest.

ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Beautiful black children

This girl has hair similar to mine...

That first little girl has the face of an angle

My people know how to party. Cain't tell us SHIT!!!

Ya'll know ya'll dance. Ya'll KNOW ya'll dance. Let 'em hate! Let 'em HATE!!!

2freaky4church1 said:

We cannot nitpick when dealing with black culture. There is good and bad and frankly, todays black culture is pretty debased--lots of apathy, poverty, crime, idiocy, bad culture, bad diets, cell phone cults, saggy pants gangsta stupidity consigned as false hipness.

Nobody defends black culture more than me, but there is bad as well as good. African American leaders need to take back their culture.

Oh I'm sure many within the Black community, as a whole, are aware of societal ills within our community, but you will find those societal ills existing in many other cultures in America, and throughout the world, but much of it is not displayed in the media as much as ours, in my opinion. Often times, the media intentionally plays blind to societal ills in many other communities, giving a false impression that those type societal ills don't exist in others, as the saying goes "If you don't see it, then it's not happening" which is a very misleading of course. I can surely post some of that info here as evidence, but since this is a thread "specifically" to celebrate Black culture, I won't post that other info in here as there's plenty of time to do that. All-in-all, and regardless of our own communities' societal ills, all-in-all, there's plenty of positivity, beauty and good within Black culture and always will be, We'll be fine, but thanks for that input.

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ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

sweething said:

(A few) African American Inventors*

Dr. Charles Richard Drew - Bloodbank, long term preservation of plasma

Dr. Patricia Bath - Cataract Laserphaco - removal of cataracts using laser technology

Clatonia Joawuin Dorticus - Machinery: dying shoes and shoe heels, embossing machines, photography developing, leak stopper for hoses

Phillip B. Downing - Street letter drop Mailbox

Garett Morgan - Gas Mask, traffic signal

Dr. James E. West - Microphone

Sara S. Gooode - Folding cabinet bed (predecessor to ironing board)

Elijah McCoy (truly the real "real McCoy") - steam engine lubricator

Norbert Rillieux - improved Sugar processing

George Washington Carver - hundreds of products from alternate processing methods of peanuts, sweet potatoes, soy beans and peacans, including, glue, dyes, rubber substitutes & adhesives and many other products.

George Crum - Potato Chip

Madame C.J. Walker - Hair care products for African American hair, via door-to-door sales

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams - Open Heart Surgery

Dr. Staneley E. Woodard - true Wireless Sensors

Granville T. Woods - Innovator of Railway systems including controlling flow of electricity, railway communications systems, sensor-type devices

Valerie Thomas - Illusion Transmitter - television technology

John Thompson - Lingo Scripting/Macromedia delivering Shockwave movies

Rufus Stokes - Air Purification to reduce gas and ash emissions

Edmond Berger - Spark Plug

Otis Boykin - improved electrical resistor used in computers, radios, television sets, variable resistor used in guided missile parts, a control unit for heart stimulators, a burglar-proof cash register and a chemical air filter

Marie Brown - Home Security Systems, close circuit television systems

Frederick Jones - Automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks

Benjamin Banneker - built the first clock in the United States (using only a watch as a model)

* The list above should by no means be considered complete. Many of the inventors listed here have multiple patents for many different inventions

There are numerous other individuals not listed who have made and continue to make incredible advancements in the areas of research and development of new technologies and systems as well as to improve upon existing technologies, machinery and systems.

For more Information: http://african-americanin.../index.php

x

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Don't forget the brotha that invented the Super Soaker water gun.

SCNDLS said:

I think this one's my fave

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Artist update:

I reached out to the artist to get more info about his stuff. He called me today and it turns out that he's going to be in Dallas this weekend for an art festival so I'm going get to meet "Prince" and see a bunch of his stuff in person. I told him that this one was my fave and he said he's still got it and that it's HUGE 5ft x 4ft which is perfect cuz I have a big ol empty wall crying out for something lovely

I anticipate my pockets being real light after this weekend

SCNDLS said:

Speaking of African art . . . I recently discovered an artist from Ghana named Prince Duncan Williams. He uses silks to create jazz inspired pieces. I swear those Ghanaians rule textiles. All the ones I know in Dallas work in fashion or are tailors. Even my baby daddy menswear designer Ozwald Boateng is from Ghana.

Anyway here's some of Prince's stuff. I gotta get me some of this. [img:$uid]http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/cynda319/p2.jpg[/img:$uid]

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I absolutely love this one.

2elijah said:

SCNDLS said:

Speaking of African art . . . I recently discovered an artist from Ghana named Prince Duncan Williams. He uses silks to create jazz inspired pieces. I swear those Ghanaians rule textiles. All the ones I know in Dallas work in fashion or are tailors. Even my baby daddy menswear designer Ozwald Boateng is from Ghana.

Anyway here's some of Prince's stuff. I gotta get me some of this. [img:$uid]http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/cynda319/p2.jpg[/img:$uid]

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I absolutely love this one.

I CANNOT wait to see this stuff on Saturday

SCNDLS said:

SCNDLS said:

I think this one's my fave

[img:$uid]http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/cynda319/p14.jpg[/img:$uid]

Artist update:

I reached out to the artist to get more info about his stuff. He called me today and it turns out that he's going to be in Dallas this weekend for an art festival so I'm going get to meet "Prince" and see a bunch of his stuff in person. I told him that this one was my fave and he said he's still got it and that it's HUGE 5ft x 4ft which is perfect cuz I have a big ol empty wall crying out for something lovely

I anticipate my pockets being real light after this weekend

oh WOW! have a great time! it would be amazing to see this art up close...

One of the GREATEST entertainers of all time. I'm reading this book right now

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RIP to the Epitome of Cool

bboy87 said:

One of the GREATEST entertainers of all time. I'm reading this book right now

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RIP to the Epitome of Cool

Yes!