THE PICTURES II .::.

@Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg.

skattieTV :. DAVID TLALE: PART 1 /// SHOW COMMENTARY AND INTERVIEW

Okay, i know i promised 3-5 mins webisodes, askies skat but this one is a little longer at 8mins. Fortunately we met up with David away from the Fashion Week venue, so we were all relaxed and there was no rush and the conversation flowed. So much that I had to split the interview into two parts. Part 2 will focus on the conversation Sandiso had with David about his collaboration with Legit for a new once-off range that will launch at Legit stores on the 3rd of May. I will post that on the weekend. Enjoy, me I must sleep now.

skattieTV :. CSQUARED SHOW COMMENTARY AND AFTERPARTY PICS

Firstly, and I know I’m gonna sound like a stuck record here but I must apologize, as it sometimes happens in the early hours of the morning I fucked up my camera again, this time it’s the lens, at some point during last friday night it completely refused to auto-focus and what the fuck do I know about manual focusing. At night in a dark club. I tried anyway, some pics are fuzzy some are clear but I like them all so I thought I might as well post, I’m sure you’re used to that late night out of focus technique I like to dabble in. If you’re new to the blog don’t worry skat, hang around and you’ll soon learn to lower your standards. The pics below are from the Csquared and David Tlale combined afterparty at Taboo in Sandton. Enjoy.

Also, just a quick thanks to all the people who have sent Sandiso and I love, feedback and constructive criticism via our blogs, facebook and twitter for skattieTV. I am a huge believer in feedback, without it we could easily end up living in shit bubbles and not know it. So feedback is one way to make sure that things are a little less shit today than they were yesterday. So thank you very much and please keep it coming. And quite honestly as much as blogs are about the people who post them, blogosphere would be a pretty lonely fucking dump if nobody enjoyed them enough to read posts, check pics or watch videos.

THE PICTURES

Just in case you think i got totally distracted by the free booze and my new video hobby, here is the first batch of pics that i took at joburg fashion week.  As usual with fashion weeks I had way too much fun, saw a whole lot of fashion shows that I liked and of course some that made me yawn, my very witty friend Fumi went as far as describing one designer as being self-indulgent to the point of misogyny.  But we'll chat about that later. The sweat hasn't dried off the designers' foreheads yet, and quite honestly I'm still recovering from all the fun times. Enjoy the pics.

skattieTV :. LOINCLOTH AND ASHES @ MBFWJ

Welcome to it ladies and gangsters, this is our first skattieTV webisode as promised in yesterday's trailer. First off we have the Loincloth and Ashes show, commentary and an interview with the designer. This is one of those shows which everyone seemed to love so much that not a single soul had anything bad to say about it, which is fantastic, a PR agent's wet dream. Congratulations to the designer Anisa Mpungwe. Enjoy skat, and askies for the funny video quality at the the very beginning.

MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK JOBURG MARCH 2012 /// INTRODUCING skattieTV

Hello Skat, you might have noticed that I have been quiet for a few days now. I have an excuse as usual. This past Thursday morning I flew up to Jozi to check out the winter ranges at Fashion Week. It was a rather busy weekend hence no post, no I wasn't just getting wasted. I took shitloads of pics which I will be posting throughout the week. But I am more excited about the video footage I shot. I’ve never shot and edited video before, so it felt fresh and experimental, something new to focus my short attention span ass on. Besides, what is this technology here for if not for us to fuck around and create with. Now skattie I know that most people who follow blogs locally don’t necessarily check out the videos, including myself. I assume this has to do with the cost of internet in South Africa. Videos can sometimes sommer just chow through a skattie’s airtime. Which is why I will be editing the footage into short 3-5 minute webisodes.

I have always felt that Fashion Week does not get enough attention on our tv screens, and when it gets on the interviwers often focus on tv celebrities at the expense of getting strong opinions from the people who work this industry day in day out, you hardly ever hear the opinions of these people who are really passionate about fashion. SkattieTV is an attempt to in a small online way correct that. I collaborated with Sandiso Ngubane who blogs for The FrockReport on Timeslive and for his own blog Trends Beyond Threads. Sandiso is also a fashion journalists whose work has been published in Marie Claire, Elle, Cosmo, etc. So he is the guy in front of the camera asking all the questions and taking us inside Fashion Week, and he did a brilliant job of it.  So ja, I will be posting short episodes all week, the  shows, interviews with editors, bloggers, opinionistas and designers. Please check out the trailer above to see what's in store for you. Go on now skattie, stop stressing about that bandwidth, you are gonna love it. I will also be posting pics during the week. 

ATHI-PATRA RUGA’S ILULWANE COMES TO CAPE TOWN

Excuse me skattie while I shamelessly plug my partner Athi-Patra Ruga’s new visual art performance piece Ilulwane. Obviously I am proud as fuck and I think it is the most amazing piece of performance art ever. It is part video installation and part live performance. Last night I got to see the 40-minute video accompanying the performance and I listened to the Spoek Mathambo composed soundtrack accompanying the video, it tripped me the fuck out. I had to run to the bar downstairs for a bottle of chard and then I watched it two more times. No, ja, Wow! It had its debut in New York at the Performa Biennale, in November last year, which I posted about before here and here.  If your head works at the same average pace as mine,  I highly recommend you read just a couple of interviews/articles (here, here and here) that APR has done regarding the piece, you know, just for some background, especially around the multiple narratives. Athi will show the piece twice as part of the InfectingThe City art festival. The first one tonight (Wednesday) at 21h00 at the Long Street Baths right on the top of Long and again on Friday the 9^th of March at 20h45 (also Athi's birthday btw, and the day Biggie died as Athi always reminds me). Infecting The City is a public arts festival, it’s sponsored and therefore totally free, all you have to do is show up. Hope to see you there later this evening. Okay enough partner plugging for now, I must get back to stressing about why I am the only creative type who does not totally get Monocle, such stress, I really wanna love that magazine.

U STRIKE A QUEEN U STRIKE A POSE

I am slightly ashamed because I did not know that today was Pride. I’m not blaming myself though, all the blame goes onto the Pride organizers . Like seriously, Pride is a pretty big fucking deal, everybody should know about it. I’m not a scene queen, I just don’t have the physique  for it. I landed up at the gay village by accident tonight. I went to check out Bubbles, a drag bar, drag queens have a special place in my heart.  Anyway, I asked a couple of people hanging out at the  village tonight about Pride and a few (most actually)  of them had no idea that today/tonight was Pride. That was a bit sad because Pride actually is rather important. If for no other reason, it’s important for the lesbian rape situation in our townships. Yes, lesbians are terribly unfashionable and their commitment to cargo shorts shames the entire homocountry but that’s not a good enough reason to hate, however bloody militant many of them are. Jokes aside though, we leave in a country where homophobia is rife and it really does not matter how liberal our constitution is, the truth is that the majority of South Africans are homophobic (yes they are, stop denying it) and so many are violently homophobic. Fuck you if you are still in denial about that, and fuck the ignorance about the suffering of so many and fuck ignoramuses who deny the contribution homos make to our society, and ag shame for those think there isn't a homo in their family.  Pride is still important and we cannot be chilled about it.