Gorgeous feature in PHOTAFRIQ

So, there's this amazing photographer, Petra Rolinec of 8ties baby photography, who's work has populated this blog to be as visually awesome as it is. She got us the opportunity to have some of our work featured in the March issue of PHOTAFRIQ. Click on the link below to get the full feature. Yes, it actually is worth the time to check it out.

http://issuu.com/ossegiovannigrecasinare/docs/photafriq-march?mode=window&pageNumber=1

HauteFashionAfrica.com

Gilded Sands gets a mention on hautefashionafrica.com's trend report

Swahili Fashion Week 2012

To start this new year off, a quick recap of the last month of last year and what Gilded Sands have been up to to ensure that 2013 is the blossoming of a new era in Botswana's fashion landscape

Here is the collection showcased in Tanzania during Swahili Fashion Week 2012 held at the Golden Tulip Hotel on the 6th, 7th and 8th of December

And here's a video I stumbled upon on youtube

And here is the interview I had with Fashion Botswana shortly after I got back: http://fashionbotswana.com/news/aobakwe-molosiwa-swahili-fashion-week/

All photos by Simon Deiner / SDR Photo

Lapologa October/November issue 2012

Pick up a copy of the October/November issue of Lapologa to check out the amazing fashion spread in there for Summer 2013. If the cover hasn't captivated you yet to pick up a copy, I've included a preview of what is to be found inside. 

 

 

Cover Credits

 Model: Michelle Chikazunga

Earring Designer: House of Divinity

Head Piece Designer: TswanaLyric

Make-up: Kelebogile Hirschfeld

Photography: Shike Olsen

Spread Credits

Model: Isabelle Land

Make-up: Kelebogile Hirschfeld

Photography: Shike Olsen

Look Book in the making

This was the photo shoot putting together the Gilded Sands look book for S/S 2013. Absolutely gorgeous location coupled with a very awesome team. What more could I ask?

 

MODEL | beautiful Michelle Ngaa Chikazunga
MODEL | beautiful Natora K Inger G
DESIGNER | Gilded Sands / Aobakwe Molosiwa
MAKE UP | Gwen Lebo Isaacs
PHOTOGRAPHY | Petra Rolinec / 8ties baby - photography

Re-branding

A logo re-branding has been on the cards for quite some time. And what better time to get onto a new look and feel than now, when I'm putting together a look book to go online? Why now? Gilded Sands, I feel, is at the perfect conjunction of gaining awareness through the local media; having the general populace now getting to know about us and very soon to be expanding production. Quite intense milestones to be encountered in just a short year.

It just feels right.

This new logo manages to still encapsulate what Gilded Sands stands for, while offering a cleaner aesthetic. Not nearly as fussy and detailed as the previous logo was; the new logo offers a bolder approach to what my design philosophy is. This new logo is also brilliantly timed for the launch of my first collection as an established designer, at Swahili Fashion Week in early December, which I am starting on Monday.

Mmegi article

There was a pretty awesome article about my journey thus far published in the Mmegi Newspaper on Wednesday.

Please do have a read