Meet Fashion Desginers Lizzy and Darlene Okpo, Nigerian sisters who share their own clothing line entitled William Okpo named after their father. Check out the video below to learn more about their unique style
"William Okpo is a women’s wear collection designed by sister’s, Darlene and Lizzy Okpo. A nurtured love for fashion and creativity brought about the birth of the collection named for their father, William Okpo.
The concept behind the William Okpo line is inspired by the parents of the Okpo sisters. Daughters of Nigerian immigrants, Darlene and Lizzy were motivated by the interplay of their parent’s personal style with the American culture.
With William Okpo, the Okpo sisters wish to illustrate the unique aesthetic that results from the juxtaposition of the immigrant’s sense of style against American cultural sensibilities, offering the modern feminine designs with touches of masculine elements. William Okpo is for women who celebrate their cultivated sense of style." <<<----http://www.williamokpo.com
Chanel 2.55 Handbag made out of BEEF JERKEY by Art Center College of Design design student Nancy Wu !!! Just imagine walking down the street and a dog starts chasing you for that beef jerkey!! :-)
Monday, May 30, 2011
Rest In Peace Gil Scott-Heron May 27th 2011
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
Activist. Poet. Musician. Author. Rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Accredited for influencing Rap as a genre. Go educate yourself here
Today's "Tru Story" post is what I consider to be one of the most important posts to date on Concrete Rose because no matter how old it gets its message is timeless and unfortunatley gun violence is still at large in many communities, especially mine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bullets in The Hood A Bed Stuy Story is a documentary produced and directed by then 19 yr old Terrence Fisher, a native of Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, New York. Based on Fisher's life at Louis Armstrong Housing Project in Bed Stuy Brooklyn, he was only 19 yrs old at the time of filming. Fisher's purpose for making this documentary is to expose what life really is like in the projects encountering gun violence on a daily basis. Bullets in The Hood won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. For more information or to see the film in it's entirety check it out here.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Street Artist Kenny Random based out of Padova, Italy. For more info check him out here
Simply. Magical.
I think it's time I take the time to pay homage to my personal favorite style star, none other than singer/songwriter Solange Knowles. Her style is completely effortless and unique, go ahead take note!
You may know her or you may not but now you do!! hehehe :-) Kreayshawn, East Oakland native, self proclaimed Director, Cinematographer, Editor, DJ, Pixel Artist, Rapper, Swag assassin, and Under-cat, is Concrete Rose's pick for Who Got Next. See for yourself..
Addicted? I knew you would be find out more about her here!!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Nicholas Kirkwood's new collaboration with artist Keith Haring props to miss sussie bubble
I'd Die For This Shoe above :-) Love at First Sight
