Undiplomatic fashion
With the engines of Air Force One warming up in readiness for Obama’s lift off to Ethiopia, the curtain is falling on the circus that has been in town for the past few days.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Undiplomatic fashion
Lights, camera, fashion!
I have had both the pleasure and displeasure of being part of the audience of more than a few fashion shows in Nairobi.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Lights, camera, fashion!
Were Kenyan designers outwitted?
I am not a fashion journalist, nor do I have an award engraved with my name for anything remotely related to trends in dressing and design.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Were Kenyan designers outwitted?
Being a mobile billboard is not chic
So, is slipping into your favourite club’s jersey, sometimes with your name or soubriquet emblazoned at the back, for an outing or event that has nothing to do with football or sports and is not being held in a sports bar sloppy, lazy or dozy dressing?
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Being a mobile billboard is not chic
Learn to respect rainy days
Soon, it might be raining cats and dogs as the dust and heat gradually gives way to the rainy season.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Learn to respect rainy days
Lupita: How many years a mannequin?
I love Lupita. Heck, she has even starred in my dreams on more than one occasion. Her cameo appearances in my slumberland have had nothing to do with fashion.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Lupita: How many years a mannequin?
Nairobi farce week
There is fashion week and then there is a farce week. Sadly, the latter represents Nairobi’s pass off for a fashion week.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Nairobi farce week
Men of cloth
Aaron Alford is not a social lion. He is not an eminent figure or a renowned televangelist. In fact, I suspect this missionary’s most prized possession in this world is his beard.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Men of cloth
Cabin crew uniforms have taken a nosedive
If every day was a fashion show, then the airplane’s aisle would be where fashion goes to die. For this is a runway project where dowdiness seems to be celebrated and the right to be down-at-heel is clearly abused.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Cabin crew uniforms have taken a nosedive
Brace yourself for the suspenders
Beware of a man who wears suspenders and a belt
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Brace yourself for the suspenders
Just be you this New Year
Because I am a realist, I am not going to delude myself that this year will be any better as far as fashion goes. I have braced myself to inspect a similar parade of cheap shoes and suffer the limited social graces of assuming clods as was the case last year.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Just be you this New Year
Dressed to drink
The story of whisky is sewn in a sartorial narrative, meaning whisky cannot walk out of fashion. No one and nothing walks out of his or its story.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Dressed to drink
Dude, don’t be caught dead with a man purse
I am probably just old-fashioned. I own a good enough smartphone, a bunch of keys, my wallet is always bulked up and I do not see the need to tote around a tablet in my daily commute.
By Paul Omondi 9 years ago
Dude, don’t be caught dead with a man purse
Stumbling blogs of Kenyan fashion
By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Stumbling blogs of Kenyan fashion
Bearing the sweater weather
When it comes to a man’s wardrobe, the sweater is one piece of clothing that suffers some kind of identity crisis. Many of us are at a loss and cannot really place it in the imagined continuum of casual to formal look.
By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Bearing the sweater weather
Crimes of fashion
The most insightful criticism on fashion is perhaps one that is given by someone with restricted knowledge of the subject or even total lack of what fashion is, as envisaged by designers or portraiture of discerning dressers. Their platitudes make for good entertainment.
By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Crimes of fashion
Pull up your socks
It is the little things that matter – like the greens stuck in your teeth after a meal, or the hole in your socks.
By By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Pull up your socks
Denim is in our jeans
In the Wild West, dying with your boots on was considered honourable. It was a manly death, often wrought by the piercing head of a bullet.
By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Denim is in our jeans
Don't make a spectacle of yourself
By any means necessary. This Jean-Paul Sartre phrase, taken from his Dirty Hands play, was thrust into popular culture when Malcolm X thundered it in a speech he gave exactly 50 years ago.
By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Don't make a spectacle of yourself
Make a statement with your scent
Hold on to your cents before splurging on what is billed as premium designer perfume, for that eau de toilette may not be as heavenly as the price because, writes Paul Omondi, there is no bad scent, just cheap perfume.
By Paul Omondi 10 years ago
Make a statement with your scent
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