IBRAHIM KAMARA
i-D’s Fashion Editor at Large
Frequently utilizing a-typical fabrics, materials, and mixing utilitarian objects with high fashion pieces in addition to accessories and custom details for each look, Ib’s style is recognizable, bold, unique, and surprisingly refreshing amongst a fashion world that feels as though it’s stretched itself to the limits of “already been done”.
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All of these homes are created by architectural design team Nitin Barchha & Disney Davis at The White Room.
Organic House
The Garden Room
This one’s my fav!!
So incredible!!! Hope you enjoyed :-)
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I found a Mercy Corps link that seems like a good one -
https://www.mercycorps.org/donate/urgent-families-facing-famine-yemen
None of my 10% charities are currently towards the crisis in Yemen so a direct donation is the best route! They accept paypal so they make it easy!! (Unfortunately donations below $5 are not accepted - if you’d like to order something from me and donate to Yemen instead of one of the causes I have listed, let me know in the order notes and I’ll personally cover the difference).
While browsing through Instagram one day I came across the account of a guy I knew-ish in LA, a very chic man who I loosely associate with large fancy expensive hats and other such things. His name is Sebastian Hull and he had posted on his account a photo of a Yemeni goat herder who gave me heart palpitations. I had to dive deep into google and learn more about Yemeni fashion.
Jewish bride from Sana'a, Yemen
“Because the wedding ceremony lasts for three days, the bride will change three different outfits. Beforehand, during the cleansing and beauty treatments, the brides have to wear traditional green dresses; the next day, as they attend the hair dressers, they wear a red dress with gold strings. Every time they are in public, they need to wear different gold veils and gold jewelry. They have to wear as many as possible (must be really heavy!), actually, they have to wear every single piece of gold jewelry they possess. On their wedding day, the brides from Yemen usually wear gold and white veils and a marvelous and spectacular headpiece.”
“Tribal female headdress in traditional Yemeni style, ca. 1920s. Silver with carnelian stone insets and black fabric.”
Guy on the left is wearing a headpiece full of real flowers
“Antique Yemeni silver kohl boxes, traditionally worn on Djambiya (Dagger) Belt. Yemen.”
- Sideara
I was lucky enough to shoot this angel in human form a few weeks back. Bass is a model, actor, and bibliophile. We live really close to each other and DO NOT HANG OUT ENOUGH! Now I’m moving, c’est la vie. His warm playful personality shines through in these tuff photos.
BASS IS WEARING SHOP SIDEARA EARRINGS FROM THE COMEBACK COLLECTION.
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River is wearing the Dot earrings, Girl Power, the sold out Fortune back, the Lucky earrings, the sold-out Juliets, & the vintage Sweet Bag. Get that shit before I need to change the description! Which I will forget to do.
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[[ This was written before his death, if anyone was wondering ]]
Ok so, maybe we don’t like Karl Lagerfeld. He’s a self-hating fatphobic dickhead. But he’s also an incredibly creative, driven, self-made, self-hating fatphobic dickhead. And he’s pretty funny. But I’m not here to praise Karl Lagerfeld. To be honest, I don’t even really know that much about him.
All I really care about is how incredible his apartment was in the 80s.
“Lagerfeld had embraced Ettore Sottsass’s Memphis movement — the tongue-in-cheek riot of colour, disjointed lines and feral ideology of the early 1980s that has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. Along with friend Andrée Putman, Karl had assembled an elaborate collection of key pieces and prototypes from the Milan-based postmodernist design group — and Spelman would document this salient collection.”
To read the full article that accompanied the majority of these images, click here.
Memphis was born in the winter of 1980-81 when a group of Milanese architects and designers felt an urgent need to reinvent an approach to design. The movement was defined by a reckless desire to be radically different from current circumstances and ‘good taste’ according to the international convention of housing being furnished with ‘real design.’ The group's colorful furniture has been described as "bizarre", "misunderstood" and "loathed.”
Some of the pieces featured in Karl’s apartment:
a bright, light-up dressing table by Michael Graves
furniture by Peter Shire
colorful sofas by Marco Zanini
inventive wardrobes and cabinets by Michele De Lucchi
slanted bookshelves and lamps by Ettore Sottsass
Basically an endless hole of inspiration to travel down here. Goodbye!!
Old VHS cover designs are beautiful
I love the simple grid-based design, the bold block letter text, the colors
If you’d like to see more, I found a blog with a ton of them here
Also, I didn’t end up buying it but these inspired me to search out some textures - here’s a really nice preset you can buy for vintage folded paper if you’re looking to create some digital graphic art inspired by these - from creative market. If you end up using those and they’re cool, I’d love to see!
Hope this inspired you a bit xx
Sideara
10% OF EACH OF OUR SALES GOES TO ONE OF THE ORGANIZATIONS BELOW. YOU CHOOSE, WE GIVE.
THE 10% COMES FROM OUR REVENUE, NOT PROFIT- MEANING WE ARE GIVING 10% OF THE TOTAL PRICE OF THE ORDER (NOT INCLUDING SHIPPING), AS OPPOSED TO THE TOTAL PRICE WITH OUR COSTS SUBTRACTED.
From page 33 of the book Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown: “I have come to believe that facts, guilt, and shame are limited motivations for creating change, even though those are the primary forces we use in our organizing work. I suspect that to really transform our society, we will need to make justice one of the most pleasurable experiences we can have.”
END THE BACKLOG is a program of the Joyful Heart Foundation that focuses on shining a light on the rape kit backlog in the United States & ending it by practices "conducting research identifying the extent of the nation’s backlog and best practices for eliminating it, expanding the national dialogue on rape kit testing through increased public awareness, engaging communities and government agencies and officials, and advocating for comprehensive rape kit reform legislation and policies at the local, state and federal levels." Ultimately, they seek to change attitudes about sexual violence and abuse, educate the public, improve systems to lessen the trauma survivors experience and ensure greater access to justice for survivors. End The Backlog understands that race plays a role in how these cases are often systematically mishandled. If you want to get involved in policy change and you’re in the USA, they have suggestions to send to your representatives. We encourage you to click here for more info.
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle is a writer and lecturer whose work often centers around blackness and anti-racism. She created this program to assist black women in accessing mental health care in America, a privilege that is systematically less accessible for women of color. The funds are collected through GoFundMe and therapists are paid directly for sessions. In Rachel’s own words:
“This is moving beyond ‘thoughts and prayers’ and into tools and action.
This is tangible action based community support.
This is intersectional feminism beyond marches, signs and pussy hats.
This is citizen led distribution of wealth.
This is powerful.
To everyone here in this community: we are doing it. We are becoming the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
You can view Rachel’s Instagram here and view the GoFundMe page directly here. The project continues to expand, and the most recent updates can be found at the GoFundMe list.
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