Brooklyn designers Welcomes South African Meropa heritage designers

Meropa Heritage is A Cultural Trade experience A fashion presentation and Sale thursday august 3rd 4-7pm

CBJC Jazz Of Fashion Hosts Meropa Heritage A Cultural Trade experience At A Reception and Fashion Show, LIU's Kumble Theatre, Flatbush @ Dekalb Meropa Heritage is a a Cultural Trade experience. CBJC and the Artist Mosaic Jazz of Fashion is pleased to Host Meropa Heritage in a cultural trade showcase, Meropa Heritage is a South African collective, bringing together rural women and designers working for economic justice in South Africa. with guest appearance by Brooklyn Designers Brunson-Bey of Tribal Truths; Moshood Afrikan Spirit; Michi Designer Knitwear. Space is limited Fashion community please Rsvp here Fashion designers and models rsvp here Trade, Boutige and retail buyers, press Rsvp here Genreral public rsvp here . ___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me Just Call me

Brooklyn Fashion Gallery launched

Brooklyn's Fashion Designers take controll of their destiny

At the end of this monththe Brooklyn Fashion Gallery, will be launched, the next step in the fashion initiative that evoled from Artist Mosaic into the A-liners project. Whereas Am Explored a forum where, art, culture, heritage, enterprise, creativity and modern opportunity could converge! The A-liners explored a specific industry and grass roots approached to meeting challenges within brooklyn's fashion industry. Even before the start of this, myself and other designers have discussed the need for a unified Trade initiative and a Brooklyn Fashion Week. At the start of the A-liners We set the Spring 2007 couture presentation as the mark for Brooklyn designers to enter the forum of a Brooklyn Fashion Week. After discussion with close to a hundred designers, design and fashion profesionals and several meetings The general concensus is a collaborative trade event that uniquely suits the specific challenges of Brooklyn's design community! Brooklyns designers are doing well, but are at a crucial point where investment dollars, factoring and manufacturing relationship and creative marketing is needed. please visit www.brooklynfashiongallery.com and sign on. Designers and fashion professional will find more than a meresite, BFG is a community portal designed to augment their individual efforts and to take advantage of new media advancements! ___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me Just Call me

Brooklyn Designers online Fashion Gallery

An online portal , the Brooklyn Fashion Gallery allows the world to access emerging fashion and accessory designers in Brooklyn

www.BrooklynFashionGallery.com Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me Just Call me Designers And Fashion lovers Now Have a place to connect! THE BROOKLYN FASHION GALLERY is an online portal That supports designers marketing efforts. Brooklyn Designer Showcase on weekend, travelling throughout h ecountry to special events! Now visitors will be able to accesss designers' sites directly from the site as well as see their latest offerings. Designers are invited to register and create a designer profile. registered visitors to the site will be able to contact the designers directly through the sites messaging system. Br

HLJ Designs at Fashun 4 Ward Showcase

A-liners Schedule

Wednesday Fashun Forward host the first of the A-liners showcases they are sponsoring this season. HLJ will introduce us to his distinctive line. Free B4 8pm Click flyer to enlarge Host: Okema Moore of Fashun 4 Ward & the A-liners Location: Amarachi Lounge 325 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY View Map When: Wednesday, April 12, showtime, 9:00pm Thusrday 20th Fashun 4 Ward & A-liners introduces Brooklyn's Young Designer! Wedneday 26th Fashun 4 Ward & A-liners- Takiyah Jerome spring Show And Sale April 22 Jazz Connections Fashion Brunch Featuring Michi With vendors from the Brooklyn fashion Gallery 11-4 Sugar hill restaurant April 22 4W fashion Show 5.30 pm free Wedneday 26th Individual show!- Fashun 4 Ward @ Amarachi’s A-liners- Takiyah Jerome spring Show And Sale April 29th Designer Charity Knit pick! CROTCHET & knit Artist get involved help make pieces for charity! 1069 Bergen Street Between Rogers & Nostrand B44 or A Train To Nostrand 5 short blocks to Bergen Street make Right walk In direction of traffic B44 to Bergen, B65 to (betw, Rogers & Nostrand) 1-718-771-3687 2-6pm April 29th - Designer Distinctinctive Darlings BY PJ Show & Sale. April 29th. 9am-6pm. Come check out custom designed glassware made by Leleith ___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me Just Call me

Presenting The A-liners

we're getting there So i finally figured a way to present the A-liners since attending Bar Camp earlier this year i have totally revised a lot of my web strategy. These guys create the latest web tools for new media! the problem still exist in convincing the community to get on board early. Think... the web is only about ten years old, it is undergoing a major change. NOW IS THE TIME TO get on Board. SuprGlu Has Sponsored the fashion Feed And I'm preparing Tutorial with thumbstack's application! Our Map is courtesy Frappr, the pics hosted on Flickr The slide show which i'd previously spend a day coding is courtesy of slide dot com. the individual artist blogs are hosted on blogger. what i need was a content management system and with all respect to the guys @ drupal I had to opt for joomla! For a non techie it is just simpler to understand and work with. Many question using other peoples tools, the natural imperialist and capitalist frame of mind is to own. Creativity is a gift to be shared, and while i believe in responsibility to the artist, for maximizing the value of the work, if no one knows the artist exist they cannot patronize him. Fashion, in fact any creative format is rife with content for these new media tools! The applications designers need the imput of the creative community to strengten the usability of their tools. Case in point Sstream studio, It helps that he is my brother , I have the advantage of communicating exactly what i needed, he sees how someone with little Technical ability handles his products. The result I have tools that work for me. His media product which are being released are functional. The next step getting the creative individual to supply content. ___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me Just Call me

An April 1st to remember

The Grandassa models The Birth of the "Black is Beautiful" movement

Urban StyleNatacha In BS Shirts @ Urban Fashion Festival!It was on April first 1961 that the first large scale fashion show promoting african beauty and "black is beautiful " was held in Harlem. To Say there was resistance would be an understament! We've come a long way but have we gone the right way! There are still rumours on maximum quotas on ethnic models during fashion week. And from all reports Black designers are comfortable with it! As I sit with elders to document the history of Black fashion I am reminded that there is little new under the sun! Very little is documented about fashion in the community, almost a half century later we still are debating the pros and cons of using our models. Why? Our choice of Models should reflect our customers, or should they?Look for the story Of the Grandassa models with the inaugural issue of The Brooklyn Fashion Gallery___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me Just Call me

Plitzs FAll 2006 Fashion Week Designer Shows

Let;s Back it up BabY!

I'll be the first to admit this article is way overdue and I apologise to Zoii and the guy's @ Plitzs at the same time I'd like to thank the folks @ NACC And Caribbean American weekly for giving them some well deserved press. Fashion Week is the premiere business showcase in this industry and we do need a venue that allows us an opportunity to showcase our fashion. the Staff at Plitzs has taken on That mammoth cause and I hope you would give your support also. Since I missed most of the shows, and worked on William Fleets TBA Line, I'm reserving comment on the lines, lest my bias show! The Shows organization was great. This team without a doubt is well versed in fashion runway prentation. They attracted press and given the competition the attendance was great. Check the site for their professional video of fall 2006 fashion week designer shows or take a peak at my amateur footage! There were two things I'd recommend changing. The Venue the owner of that venue has some serious issues which he translates to visitors to the point of intrusion. The lighting was terrible, details on the clothing were hard to see! Then again that may have been due to the fact that the clothing were not designed for presentation, details were not emphasized and clear design directions were not apparent. Folks we have to take ourselves seriously to be taken seriously. Stylist DAVI pulled together one of the best staging @ the shows I attended. Which leads to the recommeddation That designers start seeking the services of gifted stylists to maximize their show impact! Second this IS A BUSINESS PRESENTATION! There were some Sorority sisters @ this event who forgot or did not know that! One of the problems resulting from our college circuit scenario. THEY would not have put down that behaviour @ one of their business presentations. Designers we need to respect ouselves before we demand respect! Many of us are 'pimping' our talents. Some designers even ran out on the guest. Take yourself seriously ! Take the efforts of Plitzs and other such group seriously. Take the press seriously!Take your audience seriously! Take your customers seriously! There is so much more to a Fashion Week than just the runway. Plitzs has bravely stepped where few would venture. There is a lot to work out, but I for one applaud their efforts. I would recommend those who intend to participate in the September shows contact Plitz and start preparation early! ____________________________________ INTERPRETAIONS above photos william fleet To Be African Top A BSs4 silhouette intetpreted for the TBA Collection Bottom A TBA silhouette given the BSs Treatment Available exclusively @ http://tbaclothing.com ___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me http://atogunatv.com http://brooklynfashiongallery.com

Spring is in the Air rather spring fasion is in the air

Spring is in the air !!! ... and the racks, they are changing

I stopped by Moshoods recently, to leave some flyers about my new multi-media site and thank Kunle for the use of their video and their support of the A-liners. while there I decided to get an early start my article on Brooklyn spring trend's for CALABAR, the new lifestyle magazine By Atim Oton, the former editor of Sapphire and Indigo Magazines. I must say that I was really impressed, Moshood has what is probably one of the best design interpretation of spring's stipes trend, I have come across. Stripes are one of the most difficult motifs to success fully translate to wearable clothing , and Moshood's eclectic clientele. The Folks @ this veteran New York Afro stylePalace, showed why they remain @ the top, they created a line that flatters a myriaad of figure types ... they did one hell of a job. ___________________________________ Call the world for free Check out Skype To Find out more on this and other projects, just Call me http://atoguna-tv.com http://blackfashiongallery.com

Brooklyn Fashion a season More than A week or Weekend

Aliners Brooklyn Fashion Calendar April 2006 First Draft

Please have your colleagues send us the info on their show and sales! We have venues for designers whose studios are in their homes! Wednesday 5th New Designers Seminar $10.00 advance $20 see post Saturday April 8th Calabar Imports Showcase Washingtom Ave Thursday, April 6th at Fashun Forward 9:30pm. The designer is David Ramson. Advanced tickets are $5.00 and $7.00 at the door. There will be a cash bar and free hors de vours. All are welcome. Wednesday 12- Amarachi lounge individual show Opportunity for a-liner A-liners Thusrday 20th – Amarachi’s lounge Group show Fashion 4 Ward introduces Brooklyn’s New young Guns designer! Wednesday individual show April 22 Jazz Connections Jazz Connections Fashion Brunch Featuring Michi and vendors call for details 11-4 Sugar hill restaurant April 22 4w fashion Show 5.30 pm April 26th Individual show!- Fashun 4 Ward Amarachi’s A-liners- Takiyah Jerome spring Show And Sale April 29th Designer Charity Knit pick CROTCHET And knit Artist get involved pic up 1069 Bergen Street Between Rogers & Nostrand B44 or A Train To Nostrand 5 short blocks to Bergen Street make Right walk In direction of traffic B44 to Bergen, B65 to (betw, Rogers & Nostrand) 1-718-771-3687 2-6pm April 29th - Designer Distinctinctive Darlings Show & Sale. April 29th. 9am-6pm. Come check out custom designed glassware made by Leleith

Calling Independent Brooklyn Fashion Designers

Designers if they can't Find you they can't support you!

A-LINERS DESIGNERS Lists to be published and will be sent to publications nationwide! Current A-liner please send the following info- However we have pics of you work, so we need only your current line don’y have call for details you know the number To be included in press listing the following has to be received by March 31st We are moving to An all inclusive site you will need to be registered to be active please send a reguest to participate to Amaliners@gmail.com PLEASE SEND IN Designer Name Label name /low res pic of logo. Professional contact info Studio/showroom Address Zip code for those with at home studios (for our map) 3 pics of your line You will be sent the registration link for a-liners By March 31st April marketing package! $250.00 Must reserve Special by March 30th ! Please Pass along to other designers!