Glam Africa: The Revolutionary Edition (2019)
2019 has been a special year for so many reasons, and Glam Africa is bringing the year - and the decade - to a close with our most ambitious edition ever: The Revolutionary Edition. In this edition, the reality TV phenomenon is front-and-centre, with Love Island star Ovie Soko joining us for his first ever cover shoot, as well as a fashion cover featuring Big Brother Naija and Dancing on Ice stars, power couple Mike and Perri Edwards. To pull off this one-of-a-kind issue, we said sayonara to our in-house editorial team (temporarily) and enlisted a diverse group of talented, young content creators for our first ever ‘digital takeover’, which sees online personalities including bloggers, presenters and YouTubers adapting their digital expertise for print media. Very few publications can boast such a diverse range of content, and whatever it is you're looking for, GA has got you covered. We might as well have called this ‘The Egalitarian Issue’, because there really is something for everyone.
2019 has been a special year for so many reasons, and Glam Africa is bringing the year - and the decade - to a close with our most ambitious edition ever: The Revolutionary Edition. In this edition, the reality TV phenomenon is front-and-centre, with Love Island star Ovie Soko joining us for his first ever cover shoot, as well as a fashion cover featuring Big Brother Naija and Dancing on Ice stars, power couple Mike and Perri Edwards. To pull off this one-of-a-kind issue, we said sayonara to our in-house editorial team (temporarily) and enlisted a diverse group of talented, young content creators for our first ever ‘digital takeover’, which sees online personalities including bloggers, presenters and YouTubers adapting their digital expertise for print media. Very few publications can boast such a diverse range of content, and whatever it is you're looking for, GA has got you covered. We might as well have called this ‘The Egalitarian Issue’, because there really is something for everyone.
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FASHION & STYLE
red wrappers with layers of rainbow-coloured beads, or the
Swazi and Zulu tribes of southern Africa, who can be spotted
wearing layered-print garments with feathery accessories. And
it doesn't stop there - the Dogon people of Mali, the Hamar
men in Ethiopia, the Hansi in Tanzania - skirts, bright colours,
make-up, over-the-top jewellery and dramatic headpieces have
all been staple features in traditional African menswear for
centuries. Meanwhile kitenge, kikoy fabrics, dashiki prints and
patterned wrappers continue to be worn by men from East to
West Africa, and all over the diaspora. These influences can be
seen throughout Orange Culture's collections, which regularly
draws inspiration from Yoruba culture, infusing adire textiles,
buba & sokoto and agbada-inspired pieces.
Those who seek to brand androgynous fashion as
necessarily 'un-African' do so because they continue to see
their own history and heritage through a foreign lens, and in
doing so, they fail to appreciate all the diverse expressions of
African identity, masculinity and sexuality that westernisation
has forced us to forget. Thus, Orange Culture's triumphant
rejection of gender finds futurism in the antique and reclaims
Africa's lost identity in a way that history can not ignore.
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