House of Makeda

Monday, June 15, 2009

Yoga!

I love yoga and have been practicing on and off for ten years now. I should be a lot more flexible than I am, considering! I avoid Ashtanga or power yoga like the plague. I don't wanna look like Madonna (no offense)! Nice, gentle yoga and pilates can give you a strong, feminine hourglass figure if practiced right. Even a simple forward bend done every day is great for shaping the waist.

Style Icons.

Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull were two original gangsta's of seventies style. They were the rock-chick girlfriends of members of the Rolling Stones. They laid the blueprint for Kate Moss and Sienna Miller. Highly influential, sexy in their kaftans, leather pants and boho chic.

Centre of the World: Africa

Fela Anikulapo Kuti composed a piece called Africa Centre of the World. I would say this is the inspiration behind everything I do as an African woman and Pan-Africanist. African women and their descendents in the diaspora are the most neglected, downtrodden and underestimated in the world and that's the truth. Free Africa!! Buy African!!

Missing tailor...

I can't make any dresses at the moment because my one tailor seems to have disappeared into thin air. It's incredibly hard trying to establish a fashion house in Lagos, Nigeria. I need an assistant.