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Posters Abu Dhabi | Picture Framing, Fancy Dress, Halloween ... | Fancy Dress Shop UaeInjecting added multicultural appearance adeptness into Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood, Afropunk, the Brooklyn-based music festival, brought its Fancy Dress Ball to the West Coast for the aboriginal time on Sunday.
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Win an AED 500 voucher from Posters Fancy Dress shop - Abu Dhabi ... | Fancy Dress Shop UaeThe event, allotment of Red Bull Complete Select’s month-long concert alternation 30 Days in L.A., took abode at the historic, Gothic Revival-styled event amplitude the MacArthur, cartoon hundreds of bodies in anniversary of the affair “Be You. Be Free.”
“We are a belvedere that celebrates freedom, and this is a affair with a purpose,” said Jocelyn Cooper, who co-founded Afropunk with adolescent music adept Matthew Morgan. “We’re about music and activism and beautifulness and the anniversary of bodies of blush cogent themselves in every access of their life. [The Fancy Dress Ball] is a appearance in the concrete anatomy of that.”
The Afropunk name adeptness complete familiar: Since its 2005 founding, the New York anniversary has become a annual cultural criterion in music, art, appearance and culture.
The accident takes its name from the 2003 documentary “Afro-Punk” about the accord of African Americans and added atramentous communities in the overwhelmingly white jailbait music scene. Previous headliners accept included Lauryn Hill, Lenny Kravitz and D’Angelo.
The Afropunk brand, however, has become added than aloof the festival, apery all that is stereotype-bending, adverse and unconventional. (There is additionally an Afropunk online magazine.)
The Fancy Dress Ball, abiding in Carnival traditions of the African Diaspora, allowances the Afropunk Global Initiative, which aims to, according to the group’s website, “move the aggravate of advance afterpiece to a holistic, autonomous and aware representation of bodies of blush aural all facets of association [by creating] different programming that encourages assortment in media.”
The soiree, at which such cultural apparel as dashikis, kaftans and kimonos was to be expected, had been captivated alone two times prior, already in New York (with Grace Jones as the headliner) and already in Paris.
At Sunday’s event, amid headlining sets by anomalous hip-hoppers Big Freedia and Cakes Da Killa, The Times bent up with some of the attendees to allocution about their claimed appearance and apparel for the night. Here are some of the standouts.
Occupation: Works in fashion
Age: Unknown
“I’ve had this accouterments on all day. I appealing abundant dress like this every day. My appearance is actual eclectic. I adulation fun clothes. I’m into Egyptian and abstruseness and adulation that this is actual covered but additionally actual sexy. This [headpiece] was in my car. I got it from the Lagunitas Beer Circus in Azusa and absitively to bandy it on.”
Occupation: Graphic designer; hairstylist and DJ; and appearance designer, respectively
Age: 30, 31 and 26, respectively
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UAE National Day Fancy Dress - Fashionexprez | Fancy Dress Shop UaeSpeaking on account of the trio, Chantel said: “We all had our apparel and acquainted it batten accurate to who they are — these colorful, abundant prints from the cast OTT in Dubai. There’s annihilation added important than putting article on and saying, ‘This is me. This is it.’ It’s walkable, wearable art.”
Occupation: Singer
Age: 32
“I’m consistently giving color. I’m a being of color, so I accept to accord myself, 365, 24/7. This [print] is absolutely my anthology cover.”
Occupation: Works for Red Bull
Age: 27
“I got this belong from Goodwill for beneath $20. We accumulate it faux. I was aggravating to go with a bright delicate vibe, so I alloyed two of my admired colors — a babyish blush and a alacrity yellow/burnt orange. I biking a lot and try to accomplish a Salvation Army or Goodwill stop every cruise that I go on.”
Occupation: Unknown
Age: 30
“I absolutely capital to abrasion this lavender wig because I anticipate it complements my bark accent and is fabulous. These are my mom’s best covering biker shorts and a Appearance Nova bodysuit. It slays, and I like to online shop. I accept a skinny-enough anatomy so I can adjustment things, and they fit me. I’m advantageous about that.”
Occupation: Unknown
Age: 31
“I feel like I’m consistently digging through weird, old things. I tend to acquisition things that accept lived a activity afore advancing into mine. I begin this walking about the Long Beach flea market. The chaplet was fabricated by my bestie in Portland, and the chaplet is absolutely a belt my mom begin at a austerity store. She consistently told me, ‘Never cast yourself for others. Cast yourself for you. Don’t abrasion labels. Abrasion article that back you put it on, you’re empowered.’ ”
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Shree Balaji Dress Big Boys' Mahatma Gandhi Dress Fancy Dress ... | Fancy Dress Shop UaeOccupation: Works in fashion
Age: 32
“I aloof capital to be best Tom Ford and sexy. I got these glasses from about in city L.A. and I’m cutting them because I’m annoyed as … so I accept accoutrements beneath my eyes.”
Occupation: Unknown
Age: 30
“I anticipation [this skirt] fabricated my bum attending absolutely nice, which I absolutely liked. And I like a bit of drama. The headscarf is absolutely a dress.”
Occupation: Amusing Media
Age: 23
“It’s a best contour because I ate a lot of pizza this weekend. I put the accouter on to accomplish it avant-garde with a pointy-toed shoe to let bodies apperceive that I accept an advancing side. Everything I’m cutting is head-to-toe Nasty Gal — alike the bag, which is square, I didn’t appetite to bring. But I knew my buzz was activity to die, so I bare my charger.”
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10:46 a.m., Nov. 22: An beforehand adaptation of this article listed the activity of Spencer Niemetz as retail. He works in amusing media.
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Occupation: Textile designer
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Mr Ben's costume hire in Dubai - TimeOutDubaiKids.com | Fancy Dress Shop UaeAge: Unknown
“My ambition is to accomplish my patterns on my jackets angle out abutting to women’s patterns. I accept men should accept the adeptness to battling women’s clothes. I’m annoyed of women accepting all the abundant patterns. This is affectionate of a accolade to Alexander McQueen. Back he died, that’s back I absitively to booty appearance to the abutting level.”
Occupation: Appearance designer
Age: 27
“I’m activity actual mult-culti. This bathrobe is one of my own pieces; I do custom abstract ‘Jacques-ets.’ The basal allotment is from Dubai, and I got my hat in Istanbul.”
Occupation: Executive assistant
Age: 26
“I’m aggravating to accord myself the adeptness to twerk it and werk it. But I’m additionally aggravating to accord bodies some shine, some glitter, some life.”
Occupation: Anthropologist
Age: 29
“I didn’t appetite to be a walking abhorrent being [wearing African prints], so I went to a goth website and got this strappy number. I anticipation it was aggressive chic. But it’s additionally see-through, like bedchamber chic. So I commutual it with an old American Apparel dress that I already wore for a photo shoot area I was New Year’s Eve.”
Occupation: Unknown
Age: 28
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Ladies Sexy Varsity High School Cheer Girl Cheerleading Uniform ... | Fancy Dress Shop Uae“My beard beneath all of this is orange, because I absolutely like sunsets. I told my friend, who’s a hairstylist, that I capital cornrows and alone [braids]. But I additionally accept a few dreads in my beard … which signifies for me, ambition and the acquaint that I’ve learned. So, for tonight, I capital to absorb article agnate to that that I already had, and that was brownish beads. I adulation this accomplished look.”
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