We love September issues of magazines because we are guaranteed to find a dissection of trends to come for the new season. Allure Magazine’s September issue features Chanel Iman in key looks for the season that range from super feminine to androgynous. She looks fab and brings each look to life effortlessly in a way that makes us long for ALL the pieces used in the editorial. I have drawn up my wish list for the season and i can only hope….... 

Fashion’s Night Out is here again. Vogue gets us all geared up for shopping in support of the fashion industry (like we need an excuse to) with a star packed editorial in Vogue’s September 2010 issue featuring heavyweights in the world of music, movies, modelling  like Liya Kebede, Lara Stone, Usher, Karlie Kloss, Dakota Fanning, Jourdan Dunn, Pharrell, Naomi Watts, Mary Kate Olsen etc… What SHF loves best? The styling –... 

Maki Oh’s Everything in Proportion Collection takes an interesting dimension in this editorial for Clam Magazine shot by Andrew Dosunmu, renowned Photographer, Filmmaker and Director. The location provides the perfect backdrop for a collection that is pro sustainable fashion – natural, raw with some texture. The model is completely fresh, sans makeup and all the added extras that usually clutter a shoot and it works. The art direction... 

As Uruguay and Netherlands face off today at the World Cup Semi – Finals in Cape Town, SHF joins Arise Magazine in celebrating African designers with a fashion editorial that features 10 of the best talents from all over Africa, in a seemingly simple story with super styled and strong visual representation of each piece from the designers’ collection for Arise L’Afrique a Porter Autumn Winter 2010 presentation at Paris Fashion Week. ... 

Drum roll……… as the World Cup is gradually drawing to an end with fevered pitch, some of the world’s finest designers are also gathered for the now annual African Fashion Week destined to take designers and the continent’s fashion industry to the next level. This fashion editorial from fantasticsmag.com, modelled by Krista White, America’s Next Top Model’s Cycle 14 winner; features pieces from Deola Sagoe... 

Maxi Black Tank Dress and Gold Python Belt - Tsemaye Binitie; Mawi Necklace - Designer's Club; Clutch - Jewel by lisa; Kara Ross Ring - Temple MuseWe have not completely given up on the Super Eagles. SHF is cheering on the Super Eagles today with this fashion spread from Flair West Africa Magazine’s June 2010 Issue and if they disappoint us again, we will take solace in the choice of fabulous dresses and other pieces on offer in this spread!... 

Check out the images from Interview magazine’s editorial, May 2010 issue tagged “Let’s Get Lost” in our gallery below, photographed by Mikael Jansson and styled by Karl Templer.  The tagline describes … Let’s get lost, The hour is late, the air is thick, and the evening is charged with a steamy sensuality. What works? Tone-on-tone swimsuits, slithers of silk, and plenty of skin, as flesh meet flesh, body meets soul, and Daria... 

My inspiration for ‘Zula’ came from the character Zula which Grace Jones played with fierce aplomb in the cult 80’s fantasy adventure film ‘Conan the Destroyer’.  In this film Grace Jones portrayed the character of an African warrior with feminist-like values who showed great physical strength, boldness and unconventional African beauty.  So I wanted to create a fantasy story of my own through a fashion editorial where I portrayed an African... 

Africa is still being celebrated on the international fashion stage right now thanks to the tribal/ethnic fashion trend. SHF hopes this will be a long lasting celebration that heralds the global acceptance of African fashion and Accessories designers. SHF loves the Essence magazine’s fashion editorial – Mix Master and V Magazine’s fashion editorial – All the world’s a stage (in particular, the Out of Africa edit) for its... 

Edward Enninful The role of fashion stylists is still a mystery to many people worldwide simply because its not a phrase with meaning that is readily available in any dictionary. However, fashion stylists have risen significantly from obscurity into the limelight in the last decade primarily because of the symbiotic relationship between the global entertainment and fashion industry. With the increase in culture of celebrity styling, juicy wardrobe...