Friday, 16 March 2012
Indeed Alek Wek leads a glamorous life. She works as one of the top runway models in the world and her features are known worldwide-radiant skin and oval face, close-cropped natural hair and a dazzling smile. Her lean physique is grace personified on the catwalk. The model-recently-turned entrepreneur has created her own line of luxury handbags.
But life has not always been so good. Wek, a member of the Dinka tribe, grew up in southern Sudan in a town called Wau, where militias invaded and clashed with rebels in the 1980’s. Wek’s family, including her parents and siblings were forced to flee their home when she was just 9 years old.
During more strife, when she was a pre-teen, the family fled by plane to London, where she lived the life of a refugee, struggling to meet ends make ends meet, cleaning toilets, and sweeping floors and learning a foreign language. She also struggled with psoriasis, a sometimes devastating skin disease that causes the skin to flake, bump or peel. At times, her mother was forced to use a sharp knife to cut flaking bits from her head to toes.
Life, however, changed instantly when she was discovered by a modeling talent scout at a street fair. Wek tells her literal rags-to-riches story in a candid memoir FROM SUDANESE REFUGEE TO INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODEL: ALEK (Amistad, $24.95). Wek, 30, who lives in Brooklyn, takes time from her busy schedule to talk to Ebony about the book.
I love fashion and watching fshion movies, programes or series that are about or feature fashion is one of my favourite things to do so here is a list of the best fashion movies, it not conclusive because there will be more fashion movies created or some that have been left out.
One gest fashion inspirations from various sources and movies like these have lots of ideas and fashion items that you can either buy or get ones like them.
Fashion is all about your mind and what makes you inspired, there are no strict rules about how to like your fashion. Simply know what works for you, is appropriate for your body size, height, shape, skin tone and even
For instance you can wear sky high heels to elongate your legs and make your back leaner.
Wear minimal jewellery that blends with the outfit you are wearing so that it does not compete with it.
Fashion...It's all in your imagination's hands...!
A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly. (109 mins.)
A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue. (90 mins.)
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. (104 mins.)
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her. (145 mins.)
Director: Michael Patrick King Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis
An up-close-and-personal portrait of the fashion icon, Karl Lagerfeld.
Director: Rodolphe Marconi Stars: Nicole Kidman, Brad Koenig, Karl Lagerfeld, Princess Caroline of Monaco
A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino. (96 mins.)
Director: Matt Tyrnauer Stars: Valentino Garavani, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal, Giorgio Armani
Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer. (90 mins.)
A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. (114 mins.)
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