Hey there...My lady!

The second week of September was an awesome one mainly because it was my birthday weekend and i had a lovely time even though i spent majority of my time in the lab. I also had a wedding to attend that weekend and to date, thats the classiest wedding i have been to. I love attending weddings that are done with taste and simplicity and then comes out effortless. Not everyone can easily pull that off. Anyway, this is what i wore to the wedding. By now any one who knows me knows i was born in the wrong decade so this is no surprise. The brooch on me was nicked off my boyfriend..he has an impressive collection of antique brooches. The velvet dress has a 'U' shaped open back (not seen) and a fish fin peplum which i absolutely adore.

I paired this outfit with my tan court shoes made with patent leather. I am currently obsessing over court shoes. Anything timeless gets my attention. I hope you like. 

 xoxo GS

My Love For Great Gatsby

It seemed to me that the whole world was talking about the great gatsby movie when it first got released. I on the other hand had no clue what movies were out at the cinema because of my very hectic schedule. When i heard that Leonado Dicaprio starred in the movie i was excited to watch it..but i was more excited when i learnt it was based in the 1920's. That was when i knew i had to watch the movie. 

Unfortunately, the movie ended up being the saddest thing i have watched in a long time. For me, the summary of the movie goes like this: A man falls in love with a woman he could never have...made friends with people that only loved him for his money...and then gets killed by a total stranger for protecting this same woman who by the way, ended up leaving town with her family and never showed up at his funeral. In fact, no one showed up at his funeral..not even the well dressed elites who drank all the free champagne. Only one man did...someone he probably would have never imagined would. This goes to show that in life, we dont really need that many friends..one or two real friends is all one needs and not a bunch of people that will love you when things are going great for you and dump you like a bad habit when things are not. 

OKAY! back to the reason for this post. I love vintage fashion. I love everything vintage...from fashion to furnitures to architecture. I my friends was born in the wrong decade. Anyway, here are a few glamorous looks i adore :)

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Fusing Disease Awareness with Entertainment

I think Philanthropy is a great thing but i do have my reservations when it comes to raising awareness of diseases e.g Cancer, HIV etc. There seems to be a trend in fusing entertainment to a cause to raise awareness of diseases. Not that i think this is a terrible idea, i just question the effectiveness. I understand that entertainment gets people to events and probably keeps them there in the hope they learn a thing or two about the disease in question. the problem i  have with this method is, after all the glitz, glam, red carpet and champagne are all gone, will the health message people are trying to pass across sink in? And if so, for how long?

I feel if you need to give people incentives to take care of their health or be aware of health issues that they may be susceptible to then there is absolutely no point. The way i see it, without good health, no one can achieve anything in this life and so this should be top priority for every individual..sadly this is not the reality as people often have poor health seeking behaviours.

Cancer and HIV for instance are serious diseases and if people feel they need fashion, music and any form of entertainment to face this reality, then perhaps as a society, we need to find other ways to effectively pass the messages across. I for one have been to one of such events and no one even spoke about the disease awareness bit after the 15 minute slide show presentation that literally made people snooze. People were more concerned about the Glitz and glam and of course the music and fashion show. I really dont think this is appropriate. if people are serious about their health, then events should be held specifically for disease awareness with no incentive to attend. That way one is sure that those in attendance are serious about learning and will definitely leave the event spreading awareness and making lifestyle changes.

I think this is important in the African continent as we are still faced with a double burden of infectious and communicable diseases, topped with HIV and lots of Injuries caused by accidents and natural disasters. We should be taking these things a bit more seriously. There's no point copying the west in the way they raise awareness, they are an advanced society that have appropriate preventative measures in place. Africa on the other hand can not boast of this. So if we must raise awareness, lets do just that.