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nelson mandela bay's family lifestyle
author:
zuko
emotion & intention
photography:
zuko, lifegate photography
issue:
9, easter 2009
With this 9th issue of peopletalk magazine, Zuko of LifeGate expands her contribution to our offering by joining our editorial team, providing us with fashionable insight on style, dress and freedom. She took 4 girls shopping at Bea’s Fashions and then captured them in the outfits they chose at Thunzi Bush Lodge. French fashion designer Paul Poiret (1879 – 1944) once said, “You will not learn how to be beautiful from fashion magazines. What have you to do with fashion? Take no notice of it; just wear what suits you.” I believe fashion is about more than what is regarded as “fashionable”. It is, even for those who “follow fashionable trends”, an expression of who we are and what we aspire to. Sometimes fashion becomes the medium of our interaction with our physical reality - understanding that a combination of colours, shapes and textures may convey meaning, emotion, atmosphere and even intention, in a way that words fail to do, goes a long way to being fashionably dressed. “Fashion Shoots” are often entirely too artificial, removing clothing from the environment they were intended for and depriving it of the opportunity to “speak”. As we spent a few days together, shopping for outfits at Bea's Fashions, fitting, appraising, choosing, interacting with the hair stylist and “shooting” the different outfits, it became very evident that when these girls wore the clothes, the cloth, shape and colour was afforded a voice. They were free to choose whatever they wanted and in the end all four of them chose what suited them – but more than that, their outfits communicated aspects of their being. This, I believe, is fashion.
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