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by The Designers Studio|05 February 201924 September 2019|Africa Feature, Fashion, Features, Opinion

NEW YEAR – NEW LOVES Series There is something magical and exciting about a new year. New year brings new opportunities, new dreams, new goals, new ideas and new things to fall in love with. Well, we at TDS are also...

Editor’s Note – The Textile Series #tdsvoices

by The Designers Studio|06 November 201806 November 2018|Africa Feature, Design, Fashion

Ladies and Gentlemen – welcome to the end of the year. I can’t believe that we will be saying Merry Christmas and Happy New Year let alone getting used to writing 2019 very soon. Until then though, we have 2...

Newcomers Series – New kids on the block – Editor’s Note

by The Designers Studio|16 July 201816 July 2018|Business, Design, Fashion

Is this really Kenyan? One of the many frequent questions we get in the store that we are most proud of. Why? Because we get to change the perception of what a Kenyan designer is and when we keep uncovering...

BTS CREW SERIES – Editor’s Note – the Crew that made the shot

by The Designers Studio|10 May 201826 June 2018|Fashion, Fashion Film, Features, Photography, Style

Hey there good people. It is time for a new series. Is it me, or are these months flying by incredibly fast? Yikes! Hope you learnt and explored and discovered the art of photography and photographers doing amazing work in...

OUR TOP TEN PHOTOGRAPHERS TO WATCH – Part II

by The Designers Studio|20 March 201819 March 2018|Fashion, Photography

And we are back! This time, with our last pick of 5 Kenyan photographers who have captured our soul, eyes and Instagram feed. Let us continue shall we? Brian Gathu (IG: @_brian_gathu) Taking real life lifestyle and portrait images and...

OUR TOP TEN PHOTOGRAPHERS TO WATCH – Part I

by The Designers Studio|14 March 201816 March 2018|Fashion, Photography

There is no doubt that the amount of talented photographers in the country is growing and it's got us all excited to show off what we have found. So we decided to bring you our top ten photographers that we...

What’s your flavour? Categories in Fashion Photography – Part II

by The Designers Studio|09 March 201808 March 2018|Fashion, Photography

And we are back. Hope you are starting to see the different categories of fashion photography and thinking about which one suits you best. Well, here are the next three. Let's continue. High-Fashion In its simplest form – high fashion...

What’s your flavour? Categories in Fashion Photography – Part I

by The Designers Studio|08 March 201807 March 2018|Fashion, Photography

There is power in photography and fashion and it isn’t simply about showing pretty clothes; it’s about telling a story. In whichever form one chooses, the photographer is an artist and his medium is the image at the end –...

Editor’s Note – The Lens Series – Fashion Photography

by The Designers Studio|05 March 201805 March 2018|Business, Fashion, Photography

Photography is essential in the fashion business. Because fashion is such a visual business, photography is the best means to communicate that visual element about one’s brand, their collection, and their story and to get the consumer involved and to...

Editor’s Note – The Luxury Series – Jan/Feb 2018

by The Designers Studio|15 January 201815 January 2018|Design, Fashion

Happy New Year TDS Family! We truly hope that it is starting off well and that you are ready to take 2018 and crush it! (so to speak) :) When someone says this or that is luxury, we automatically equate...

The Jewel Series - The Designers Studio Kenya November to December 2017

Editor’s Note – The Jewel Series – Nov/Dec 2017

by The Designers Studio|09 November 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

Hello there! Here we are in November, with only 2 months to go before we welcome 2018. These next two months we want to delve a little deeper into jewellery. There is definitely more than meets the eye. Other than...

SOLE SERIES RECAP - The Designers Studio TDS Voices - online fashion magazine connecting you to the world of fashion and design in Kenya and Africa

HOW DID IT GO? THE SOLE SERIES RECAP

by The Designers Studio|01 November 201730 November 2017|Design, Fashion

How can one truly start to recap three months of the most amazing shoe designers and footwear innovations? Not sure, but we will give it a shot. When we started this series, we decided to do 3 months because we...

The Sole Series #tdsvoices Editor's Note

Shoes anyone? The Sole Series – Editor’s Note #tdsvoices

by The Designers Studio|03 August 201701 November 2017|Fashion, Features

I am sure we all remember the famous Imelda Marcos, first lady of the Philippines back in 1965 whose opulence was evident in her love for shoes; all 2,700 of them. At present, her shoes are in a Shoe Museum...

Why Athleisure? July Series

by The Designers Studio|07 July 201707 July 2017|Design, Fashion

Editor's Note So what's the store with athleisure anyway? Why athleisure? No one can deny that we are in an age of activity. From Michelle Obama’s Let's Move! initiative, to the Back to Nature movement in Kenya moving you to juice yourself...

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