Alphapluzng was live at one of the greatest events in Lagos State, NIGERIA, Tagged the Redemption Week 2019, hosted by "THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP YABATECH" through the DEBORAH GENERALS,
President Edozie magdalene on the left. and Vice president Ojo micheal on the right
We met with the president and the Vice Pesident, filled with so much enthusiasm, we got to know what RCF was all about, and the purpose for this dinner and award Night, which was a fragment of the one week program,
down the lane of the event we got some great shot at the students taste for fashion and styles, who would have guessed there would be a great display of style and designs at this event,
On blue dress, Matanmi Funmilayo(Amen catering), with a Deep man of God
The Popular Twin in RCF, Medunoye Taiwo and Medunoye Kehinde,
Meet Blessing Orijedje and Tobi Apata, Great minds with deep Styling
Meet Damilare and Tobi Dwell of deep styles here
The Smilling Jobi and Filani Olumide
Jobi and Sunshine Smile
Adorable sis White
Omolola in one of the best dresses of the event
from the right end, Founder Alphapluzng. Robinson Ariyo, Adjackey daniel, sis Omolola
From right Sis Lola on blue dress, Adeye Tosin on a Pink gown
And finally the winner of the RCF gots talent 2019
In the classical European humanistic tradition, fashion was always thought to be anti theatrical to good taste. A person blindly following the whims of fashion was without style, whereas a man of style - or a gentleman - used his own power of judgment Immanuel Kant shared this conception with many of his contemporaries. It is well known that Georg Simmer's idea of a formal sociology was influenced by his reading of Kant's aesthetic writings. Even Simmer's famous essay on fashion can best be understood as a somewhat ironic commentary on Kant's idea of a semus communis: the community of fashion is the real community of universal taste To Simmel, fashion is a societal formation always combining two opposite forces It is a socially acceptable and safe way to distinguish oneself from others and, at the same time, it satisfies the individual's need for social adaptation and imitation Furthermore, the charm of novelty offered by fashion is a purely aesthetic pleasure. Fashion helps to solve - at least provisionally - the central problem of the philosophy of life, also expressed in the antinomy of taste as formulated by Kant. It teaches the modern man how a person can be a homogeneous part of a social mass without losing his individuality, or how he can both stick to his own private taste and expect others - who recognizably also have a taste ot their own - to share it Simmel's suggestion of the 'stylized life-style' further develops the same idea. In modern society, both style and fashion are functional equivalents to 'good taste'.
I’m all about crazy intricate makeup looks. Putting real bugs on your face in the name of beauty? Bring it. Gluing tinsel to your lashes for a glittery lash look? All about it. So when I stumbled upon one Instagram account devoted to paintings of famous characters on eyelids, I was, as you’d guess, here for it.
Meet Kristen Jones, the makeup artist behind Instagram account @drownthecityy who paints ridiculously cool and intricate faces over her eyebrows and eyelids (think: Post Malone, Chuckie Finster from Rugrats, and Dustin from Stranger Things). If the drawings look intense, it’s because they freaking are. "For regular cartoon characters it takes me about 20 to 30minutes, but for real people, it takes up to an hour and a half," says Jones to Marie Claire. Which makes sense, because check out this crazy Timmy Turner breakdown:
“For this look, I had used @anastasiabeverlyhills dipbrow in ‘blonde’ and ‘chocolate,’ then went in with @mehronmakeup facepaint,” reads the caption. “Afterwards I set everything with shadows from the @morphebrushes 35b glam palette and @nyxcosmetics ‘whipped cream’ single eyeshadow. Mascara is @lorealmakeup telescopic!”
Though her account only has 122 posts (some of which feature “classic” looks, like a bronzed smoky eye or hazy neutral eye), she has amassed a whopping 17,000 followers who regularly comment on her photos with, “YESSSSSSSS” and “Omgg I love this,” and “Amazing.” And, if you’ve stalked her account like I have, you’d know that the praise is merited.
But for Jones, she's only in it for the fun (and maybe some hardcore fan love, too). "I started doing characters because I enjoy drawing in real life," she says. "I do makeup regularly as my job, but actually turning makeup into something different is fun." And, you know, hella inspiring for anyone who still struggles with the basics of applying eyeliner.
Nostra is in talks with former "Mad Men" costume designer Janie Bryant about collaborating on a new collection.In New York for a Q&A at Spring Place and a happy hour at Camp David in Brooklyn on Thursday,Los Angeles-based fashion illustrator Jeanette Getrost discussed how the medium is coming back to life.
About 20 will be at the NYFW event at Spring and the crowd will be considerably livelier at Camp David, the co-working space for creatives started by Milk Studios’ Mazdack Rassi and Erez Shternlich. Getrost chalked up the renewed interest in fashion illustration to social media giving artists a platform to get their work out. In addition, “People get a little tired of new media and have this yearning for the past and they want things to be handmade. You can see the same Instagram posts on a daily basis but with artists they are creating something new that you’ve never seen before.”
The Californian can complete an illustration in 10 minutes every once in a while and other times eight hours of sketching may not measure up, she said. Visiting museums; watching classic films, especially from the Thirties like “Baby Face,” and being with other creatives helps to get the wheels turning, she said. Getrost planned to wander through the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday afternoon. Attending a city college, she took a lot of life drawing classes and composition classes, and earned a journalism degree while drawing on the side.
Getrost previously worked at Shareen Vintage in Los Angeles before founder Shareen Mitchell started designing her own line of bridal and eveningwear. Getrost did a little vintage shopping and sourcing vintage with design teams that came into the Los Angeles store. Based on her job title, people often assume she works with designers to do the collections with them. That in fact is something Getrost would love to do, and has talked with the former “Mad Men” costume designer Janie Bryant about working on a collection. Last year she partnered with the West Coast brand Frankie by handpainting a few leather jackets. Interested in textile design, her aim is to develop accessories using handbeading and embroidery. Prada, Miu Miu, Shrimps’ Hannah Weiland and Gucci’s Alessandro Michele are a few of her current favorites.
She is considering joining the Art Directors Guild in Los Angeles as an entry into costume design in the film industry. Getrost said, “I like to change it up a lot. I feel like illustrating is almost like problem solving. I get inspired by looking at something and asking, ‘How can I bring that to life? What medium should I use to create that?’”
The huge success (the RealReal has raised $173 million since its founding) of various consignment sites feels opposed to the foundering retail business. There is Grailed, which focuses on street wear, and Heroine, a women’s wear counterpart, along with Vestiaire Collective and First Dibs. They have consumed the middle market, taking customers for whom actual luxury pricing is too real … real.
Shopping consignment is also a beautiful distraction. It is fashion Candy Crush; finding and scoring certain pieces can feel like a personal victory. Women I know who are familiar with the RealReal said they’ve started looking at it daily; the rest of the world is just too real … real.
Founded in 2011 by Julie Wainwright, a dot-com boom-and-bust dynamo who began working in tech in the 1990s, most notably as chief executive of Pets.com (if you recall, its commercials featured a dog sock puppet whose personality was “bro Lambchop”), the RealReal offers consignment with the promise of authentication by one of the company’s expert staff members.
All items on display in the store are simultaneously available to shop online. Sales associates can scan items for customers in person, temporarily removing them from the site while they’re being considered on the floor. Even while shopping in the store, there is the same it-could-disappear-at-any-moment feeling you get online.
In the store which was designed by Courtney Applebaum, the interior designer for the Row (a label represented on almost every rack), you can wait on gorgeous textural couches while your pieces are appraised. There is a flower stall at the front where you can buy stems by Fox Fodder Farm, a coffee bar downstairs and weekly events and workshops, like Faux Fridays, which instruct attendees on how to spot fake Louis Vuitton, Chanel and designer sneakers.
In the middle of the floor is a collaborator-curated space, and this month the selection was chosen by Vanessa Traina and Allee Goldstein of the Line. Nearby, one can slide racks of clothing out from a large console of hidden cabinets. They swoosh out deliciously, packed with treasures. A friend described the sensation of unveiling these clothes as incredibly erotic.
Upon entering, the first two things I checked out were the same price: a Frank Stella copper lithograph and a Balenciaga leather jacket with a shearling collar ($2,500). A saleswoman approached and struck up a conversation that bopped its way to the question “So what do you do with your art history degree?”
In a charming scene in Greta Gerwig’s film “Lady Bird,” the titular character and her mother bicker at a rack in an expansive thrift store. Their combative parlance hits a wall when the mother pulls out a peachy vintage dress, cooing, “Do you love it?”
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A rack of Chanel jackets at the RealReal.CreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
Lady Bird replies, “It’s perfect.” The two shift instantly to loving, fawning friends. It’s delightful.
My youthful experiences in thrift stores with my mother followed the opposite emotional structure. We would have some of our nicest conversations among the racks, until I found something I wanted; then the (low stakes) conflict would begin, almost always over the size of a garment I was holding.
My mother would see a women’s 3X or girls 14 tag and, probably exhausted because I was known to idle in the store’s fluorescent-lit dust for up to five hours a weekend, protest. “That’s not your size,” she would say.
I would argue, “Size doesn’t exist in this space!” And I still believe that to thrift or shop consignment, a little of this philosophy is required.
A size 8 on one tag in the RealReal may be the same measurements as a size zero on another. At the store, clothes are arranged on Extra-Small/Small racks and Medium/Large racks. But really, the size of the clothes depends on how you want them to fit, and it’s a game of eyeing and trying. Unlike the website, clothes here are arranged only by size, not by type or color or designer (apart from one Gucci rack, where there was a leather bag for $2,850 with “REAL” painted in yellow above the logo).
Size is abstract to me even in a store with a single brand, but a friend I was with said she didn’t like her position in the space to be about her size. Fair enough. On the other hand, it’s possible to encounter a lot of things you wouldn’t click on on the site.
Online, the pieces are photographed beautifully, masking (not in a deceptive way) wear in the fabric. When you can hold them, it’s a different experience. A Chanel tweed blazer with a loose button is $1,295. There were little threads, fabric that’s not worn out but was definitely sighing, and tiny snags on many items. Wool Proenza pants ($225), a cotton Tome dress ($295) and a suede Acne skirt ($245) are all worth it if one longed for them on the runway.
Many pieces seem to be under $300, or else above $1,200. I found a few exceptions, but when you see $1,395 consistently, a sudden $295 feels like a precious mistake to be grabbed immediately.
In other consignment shops in the city, I let my mind wonder if the clothes belong to someone recently deceased. Here it’s possible to mostly dissociate from their former lives and think only about the future.
The RealReal has established a new assurance of luxury fashion resale value beyond the doldrums of eBay, but building a brand on reselling what’s real leaves no room for user error. On Tuesday, CBS News reported on the filing of a complaint in California: A Michigan woman said she was sold a gemstone with a carat weight that was misrepresented on the site. The RealReal vehemently denies any wrongdoing.
WHEN the 2018 Pirelli calendar launched last week, it did so with a suitably fabulous gala attended by its stars: from Naomi Campbell to P Diddy, Adwoa Aboah and RuPaul. Shot by Tim Walker, styled by Edward Enninful and using an all-black cast to reimagine the Alice in Wonderlandfairytale, it marked a cultural milestone as well as a fashion extravaganza – and Naomi Campbell's fourth turn featuring in one of the brand's iconic calendars. “I’ve done it every decade of my career," she explained "and to do it again – well, I’m honoured to be part of such a great group of wonderful people and talent.”
Some of the people Naomi both starred and celebrated alongside are those who have been in her life throughout her career – and after the gala, went for dinner together to continue the celebrations (“I don’t go out out in New York so often,” she says, “it has to be a really special occasion”). “I love Puff: he’s inspiring, he’s motivating, he’s incredibly supportive to me – like a brother figure, and he’s always there. It’s the same with RuPaul; I’ve known him since I was 20 years old. He’s so witty and intelligent, the ultimate perfectionist and the ultimate businessman. He’s wonderful, he really is.”
What the evening celebrated was both black beauty and long-standing friendships, alongside fantasy in its purest form. “To have a black Alice is to have a new way of seeing Alice," explained Walker to Vogue, Campbell continuing to explain that “Being part of a new interpretation of a fairytale that we all know is wonderful – and it’s perfect timing: you’ve seen Alice in Wonderland all white, and now you’re seeing this version. A fairytale is a fantasy, so you can interpret it whichever way you want – it’s all in your mind, so things can appear however you want them to be."
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