Every once in a while we find a reason to beat our chest and boast about our nationality; especially when outside the country. Recently at a bank in the west end, my account manager told me how he envied Nigerians and how we are trumpeting the African emergence as a voice through our music and [...]

Happy New Year to all my readers; many apologies for my long absence from these pages for quite a few weeks now – a combination of factors ranging from festivities and relocation affected my ability to write. I hope we all had a wonderful Christmas break and looking forward to a success filled New Year, [...]

Fairly recently we had our national independence celebrations and it was a welcome day off from work for a greater number of us. Business men still found time to do a few things because they never stop working; it goes with the territory. Independence is a good thing in itself but with it comes choices [...]

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same” – Coco Chanel. I was sat at lunch with a client last week going through the new Autumn/Winter collection catalogue from Barker and he remarked,” these shoes are old, they’ve have been around forever”. He was referring to a pair of wing tipped brogues in conker brown calf [...]

Patent shoes never fail to grab attention, something about the sleek wet look that make people want to look again. It’s quite amazing how this technology for making patent leather has evolved and become cheaper over time that they have become readily available across the deck. In the last week it has come up in [...]

Once upon a time all I ever wore was boots, which summed up my entire dress shoe wardrobe. Looking back now I couldn’t tell you exactly why I owned only boots but humans being creatures of habit must have had a huge bearing on it. I remember my first pair was an Officine Creative Chelsea [...]

Today’s article might have a few of my older audience reading on with less than a keen interest or not at all. It might even have a few of the younger ones thinking that definitely isn’t for me and I won’t blame either group; I used to be like that until fairly recently. It almost feels like [...]

Last week I got a blackberry message from a friend in London, she was frantically looking for some “Gucci drivers”.  A cousin of hers was getting married in two weeks and she needed them urgently for his big day. A lot of questions ran through my mind but the one that came to the fore [...]

There was laughter, loads of it. There was also friendship, inspiration, aspiration and the business of fashion was very much on show at this year’s event. Come the final day, the overriding emotion was akin to that exhibited by Oliver Twist – let’s do this all over again. This was summed up by organiser Penny [...]

Boat shoes have been around forever and they are a recurring decimal on the fashion calendar – they never go out of fashion or come into it for that matter. Some call them deck shoes and they are a favourite of the sailors, ship hands or on a boat trip. But like most fashion items, [...]