I got fired from a job for posting this couple on their wedding day on my status in 2018. I captioned it “goals” 🤣.
This marriage bore 3 kids in 5 years while the company that fired me hasn’t risen from its fall within the with the CEO gone on hiatus within the same 5 years.
Okay. My view about modelling changed in Grad school. And I think the main problem is actually making “modelling” the beauty social. (And I mean runway)
Models are simply canvasses on which creatives display their work. It’s just a 3 dimensional representation of a sample.
This will be the last and only time I give you any attention.
Now listen,
My cheekbones are high, my jawbones are prominent, my brow bridges are wide and my lips are thick. My lil sideburns are shaped to give emphasis to my jaws and cheekbones.
My waist is 22inches, long neck,
This is what African Fashion Shows should look like. IMO
Why?
Because we’re expressive people. Our eyes, hands, hips, how we tap on our laps etc.
So campaigning for just inclusion wouldn’t do. Changing the genesis of the entire culture would.
@mao_0k
If my daughter is inside kitchen cooking, my son better be laying bricks at the back of the house.
If you want traditional gender roles, DO IT WELL.
One thing about wives, they’d always come back.
She will cheat with multiple men and still love you. Home is where the heart is. Pray, dress sexy and massage her when she comes.
Don’t leave her, it rains everywhere.
Before getting admission into schools abroad I had a job offer in Ghana. It was in one of the high commissions/embassies. It was paying 30,000+ cedis a month. (The rate was in dollars).
It was an offer from a man I met at the vice chancellor’s award ceremony at UG.
I got
Optical Beauty is defined by high cheekbones, prominent jaws, long neck and clavicles. 34/26/38 mostly and long fingers. If you’ve read any beauty book you’d know.
Clearly she’s not the ‘naija beauty standards’ which is why she’s contesting globally and not Miss Anambra State.
It was a rollercoaster of issues on a daily basis as I was not allowed to take calls from 8pm. She drew up a timetable for house chores that I have to be actively involved. In her words, she's not a slave and we are not Married. It was a terrible co-habitation
6 Feminists wrote my recommendation letters that got me into Cambridge, Berkeley, NYU and Howard. During my interviews, I was told these women said some very powerful things about me.
2 Feminists wrote heartfelt visa sponsorship letters to American embassy, I just mentioned
I also assumed you may like to see the video in full. Outfit by myself, shoes bought with my own money, hard face, high cheek bones, prominent jaws and a good graduating GPA. Err should I mention my thriving little business ? Or I should be modest ? Lmaoooooo!!!!!!!!
Dear, angry, bitter, wicked feminists on X who want to take their bitterness to the next level in Academia ☺️
Fully funded scholarships.
1. U. of Washington
2. U. of Minnesota
3. U of Michigan, (for those whose work is interdisciplinary; history, English or psychology).
These
@ArsenalSensible
@avirgoworld
Do you realise women who provide in their homes are still expected to do domestic duties, be fertile etc etc?
That’s where the problem is.
I finally got to meet the class I’d be tutoring.
Basically similar to what I did back home, but this time it’s an entirely different set of people.
I’m happy about my progress. I miss all the students in my Fashion Clinic back home. And I look forward to becoming even better.
Ghanaians did not copy agbada from Nigerians. It has been worn by Housas, Dagombas and in fact popularised by Muslims from the northern parts of Ghana and eventually across the south. We called it kaftan. Originally from ‘Maghreb eras’
When you open the layers of the head wraps
George is an Indian fabric a French company copied, commercialised and sold it to Igbo merchants in 1890s.
Nigerians didn’t appropriate it from Indians, they engaged in a TRADE with French merchants, popularised the fabric and created a CULTURE out of it.
So that picture isn’t
Before you comment a little search on the internet will help you, the ankara, the lace, the damask we wear to trad weddings was not initially our culture
Muting you all! Let’s spread love
Costume, Culture and Decor class attended by all first year members.
Through out my life these are the only times I have felt the need to belong. Own my place among very few individuals who have fought their ways to be here.
I’m happy these are my utmost priorities at 22.
Trust me, if I was just a fashion designer, I’d stick to trends and stay out of the topic.
These are my works.
1. These are various cultures and interpretations on bogolan Afi. Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Gabon you name it.
2. The 2nd is my woven work. Loom and saori method
2022 (Academics)
Graduated First Class Hons. UG.
Best Graduating Student in Theatre Arts. (Vice Chancellor Awards)
Got into top prestigious schools;
NYU (MFA), UC Berkeley (PhD), Cambridge, UK (MA), Howard (MA)
Enrolled in America’s most prestigious Arts school. Tisch, NYU.
3years ago today…
A random man in my area pissed me off so bad! So I warned myself.
“Xorlali, you really can’t breathe the same air as these people”
And so I went on google and typed
“How do I become the Susan Hilferty of Ghana”
🧵
I think it’s rude to adopt someone’s ultimate bridal element and put them on your bridesmaids.
When you borrow a material from someone’s culture you use them in the same capacity the originals do. You don’t downgrade, you elevate. That is what culture appreciation is about.
Them: come and wear heels in Ghana, like you will see.
Me back in Ghana in heels for literally every event.
Them: if you like come to Teshie, you will see?
Me: 🤦🏻 🙄
Ghana may want to cherish and hold onto the few intelligent and talented young people who are still at this point interested in working and serving the country though.
Its future is already too bleak to be selective over identities and sexualities.
Being able to deliver back to back bridal wardrobes within hours. My forte.
It was such a delight knowing brides could always feel confident about their express orders.
Bookings for 2023 opened and I’m excited 😅
Last W for the year.
By popular request, my second work is on display now.
I knew this would pick up eventually, I just didn’t imagine it was going to be this quick. Second exhibition in one year is wild.
And thank y’all, I thought Twitter was my war zone, but there’s just
Here. Final presentation selected and approved. Budget stamped.
I will be designing Marcus Gardley’s THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND.
It opens on 2nd May, 2024 at the Walkers.
So I guess the skit paid off ❤️❤️
Cry.
@NWSMGQuis
@thetommyk_
People are just existing and living their lives and you say they are forcing shi on you and your kids 😂. Your kids are your responsibility sir
Let me tell you a story.
Everyone said I read a useless course. My mother is the only one who believed in mine.
I studied clothing, make up, women’s anatomy, bead making. I studied every Ghanaian traditional song, I learnt how to perform every Ghanaian traditional dance, play
@hmsxjx
You people are indirectly making women the head of the house now. Because it looks like men can’t reason and think and make their homes, only wives can?
Hmm
@odigie_lex
@thetommyk_
😂such a lame poet. Someone is talking about lgbtq folk and you’re talking about kids. You’re a pedo yourself I guess. Stop touching your nieces.
It’s funny how every Nigerian is calling the lady dumb and asking her to do research and stuff. 🤣
It’s very understandable for an Igbo to wear kente in place of Akwete because of its similarities. A lot of northern Ghanaians replace asooke with fugu because of its sheer and
@KT_Samuel
Ashantis are very tribalistic.
And their tribalism is systemic. Ashanti tribalism has created bad stereotypes for almost all non-Akan tribes.
It’s way deeper than online trolls and mockery.
@_vickson_
That is someone’s signature design. If you want that? Go to her. If you don’t, there are so many shops who won’t make your dresses like these.
I was making gowns in Ghana.
My bridal wardrobe package started at 7,000cedis to 50,000cedis.
I had a staff of 6 and 4 interns. We served one bride a week.
My highest bridal package was a Housa wedding (in Nigeria), I made 75,000 Ghana cedis. We were fully booked as at March
2019
Me: we will not leave Ghana. I will be making clothes.
Her: I will be selling hair and my RTW brand.
2022
Me: I am going to do my masters o
Her: I will do mine in Legon, go and come.
2023
Me: America is sweeter, you must come.
Her: Saa? Woyɛ sure? Okay.
2024
‘US’
@lmTheReasonWhy
As a queer man, I’ve been sprinkled all my life. The only time I loved someone for his nothingness, he attempted cheating.
Back to sprinkle sprinkle and I’d move on to sprinkle x4 any moment.
During one of my grant situations, my deadline to use the money was 30th May or I lose it. So I decided to use it to pay for my flight, my photography sessions, GTP fabrics and my workers. NYU Tisch policy states no grant can pay for flight or vendors in another country.
As the
@arbigirrl
@PoliceNG
Rest in your femininity love. Everything will come along.
Be more feminine, submissive and take accountability. His mind will change. ❤️
NYU opened its new Ultramodern Theatre at the Paulson Center on Mercer Street.
The African Grove Theatre. My research work on Ghanaian Wax prints were exhibited as part of the opening dinner and toast last week
and It has been on display since then. My little documentary pilot
You want me to call it in a Ewe/Ga name so bad. But here. The traders were Akans. They named it. When you buy it and take it home, whatever you call it is your business.
The business was predominantly done by Akan Women who would travel to Accra.
Started with Fante women (they