THANDISWA IS STARTING AN ALL GIRL BAND

Wow this sounds pretty cool. Girl musicians, if you ever wanted to be in a band, this is your chance.  Thandiswa Mazwai is holding auditions for an all girl band! Details above. Just show up with your instrument at the above mentioned date.  Good luck!

COS

This is the latest Cos Campaign.  Cos is H&M's more expensive grown up store.  I like it a lot. Haven't been but I'm going in a few months!  I can't wait.  

Louis Vuitton copies Masai Fabric

So Louis Vuitton unashamedly copied the Masai people of Kenya by using Masai Fabric in LV's latest menswear range.  I first saw this in a Fantastic Man editorial where the credits said ''Masai shorts by Louis Vuitton, $900.000.000.0000.000''.  Should we Africans get upset about it? If only the Masai people are not at all financially compensated.  Do you think they should be? I don't know what happened in this particular situation obviously but it's not the first time African prints, fabrics and general ideas are taken by famous designers and used to make coffers of cold hard Euros and Dollars.  Is it ok?  

Why haven't we made money from our own ideas as Africans? Why haven't we taken ideas from other continents and became super rich from them? When I saw this, as a business person and somebody who likes pretty things, I thought. Mmm these things look nice, but something didn't quite sit right with the fact that to this day, this kind of one dimensional flow of ideas from one hemisphere to another is still happening, what are the Kenyans getting for this I wonder? 

Some useless celebrity news

Judge me if you will.  I have no shame in my consumption of useless celebrity news from People.com and Us Magazine.  I don't know which trash I like more, People or McDonalds.  I unashamedly consume both with much enjoyment. So I thought I should share some useless news with you if you will.  So it looks like Kim and Kanye are properly proper.  I was a bit concerned about her foray into the the lair of the royals of music.  Looks like she's in. I like Kanye so I guess I will just overlook how much Kimmy bores me and just be happy for her.  

And then, in some rather shocking news, Naomi Watts, who I generally like as an actor, is playing Princess Di in a film about the late lady.  I know I need boundaries for this blog but somehow these two things caught my interest.  Thanks for reading, now go back to work and pretend that you didn't want to see these pics.